Archives of #CHOCOLATE

A year of blogging and Nutella cupcakes!

Today I complete one year of being a part of the blogosphere (yay me!). I started off hoping to use PurpleFoodie.com as a place where I could collect my recipes and keep track of my cooking and baking experiments. Little did I know that a year down the line, the blog would mean a lot […]
16 years ago

Technique: Flavoured Salts

“A flavoured salt is one of the simplest and most basic ways of finishing a dish – it’s so easy and tasty, yet hardly anyone does it”– Jamie Oliver My fascination with flavoured salts began after reading about it in Jamie’s Kitchen. And boy was I in awe of salt when I learned about the […]
16 years ago

Pain au chocolat et à la banane

Someone at work lent me a French cookbook yesterday. It looked quite interesting and I immediately felt like sampling some of those recipes. To begin with, I picked a chocolate banana bread. Everything was in French and it was kinda fun trying to figure what it meant, and if it was way beyond my understanding […]
17 years ago

Nutty Biscotti

After a friend suggested this recipe to me I knew I just had to make some Cranberry Pistachio Biscottis and more so after the excellent ratings the recipe earned itself at Allrecipes. I made these today morning, and I was quite happy with the results. My health conscious mom couldn’t be happier when she learnt […]
17 years ago

Grandma’s Chocolate Chip Pound

‘This cake is my newest fixation. And it’s so easy to make! Just make the batter and push it in the oven. My grandma followed this recipe for family birthdays: 225g butter 225g sugar 225g flour 4 eggs ½ tsp baking powder 1 tsp zest of orange/lime/lemon 1 tsp vanilla essence 150g chocolate chips Preheat […]
17 years ago