Chocolate chocolate cake
Decadent chocolate cake recipe for a super moist chocolate cake with chocolate ganache. Heat it gently and the ganache turns to a rich chocolate puddle!
Dark Chocolate Cookies with Sea Salt
Dark chocolate cookies with oozy melted chocolate and a sprinkling of sea salt.
Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans
Eric Kayser's chocolate chip cookies - one that is crispy on the edges, barely soft in the centre, speckled with Valrhona Manjari and punctuated by pecans.
Chocolate Cake
I have a really good chocolate cake recipe on the blog, but this one’s a classic. The génoise forms the basis of this surprisingly simple cake. Making this reminded me that I don’t need to go searching for new-fangled recipes and methods when the classic génoise works like a dream. A génoise is amongst the […]
Hazelnut Biscuits
I’ve been enjoying reading The Complete Nose to Tail lately. It’s not only the fantastic recipes, but it’s Fergus Henderson’s writing that’s kept me hooked. It’s eloquent with an unmistakable British wit. And the photography by Jason Lowe is intelligent, dramatic and timeless. These hazelnut biscuits are from the cookbook. They are incredibly simple to […]
Pistachio, Apricot and Cardamom Kugelhopf
I’m hoping to start a new Christmas Day tradition with this year’s kugelhopf. A kugelhopf is a yeasted cake or a rich bread, whichever way you’d like to see it, that adorns pastry shop windows all over Alsace. It’s a traditional French Christmas bread, with a disputed history, made in earthen moulds. If you don’t have […]
Kouign Amann
Kouign Amann is a rich, buttery viennoiserie made with an unthinkable amount of butter and a generous sprinkling of sugar for a little sweetness and caramelisation. It’s crisp, flaky and caramelised on the outside and soft and cakey inside. One bite and you’ll know what I mean. I’ve learnt two ways of making kouign amann. One, […]