This is a relatively old Dan Lepard recipe but it’s one of my favourites – he calls them “the best chocolate muffins you’ll ever eat” and I agree! Ingredients 50g cornflour 3 level tbsp cocoa 100g dark soft brown sugar 225ml cold water 75g unsalted butter, cubed 125g dark chocolate, broken small 75ml sunflower oil… Read More Chocolate custard muffins
I came across this Sweedish Sockerkaka recipe on The Culinary Jumble by accident, while searching how to make cold-brew coffee. This time I drizzled both white and dark chocolate – next time I’d like to try the following: after stiring in some alcohol, reserve the coffee for moistening the cake after it’s been baked and… Read More Chocolate Sockerkaka (Sugar Cake)
This is my first Ottolenghi recipe and I saw it right when we had a lot of leftover stilton and an unopened pack of dates! Our dates were not medjool, so I went with the 200g, but there was lots of date paste left over, so maybe use 12 dates … Ingredients About 12 medjool… Read More Stilton and Date biscuits
I made these pancakes with my aunt and the assistance of my younger brother. The recipe is very easy, quick and foolproof. We found it on the BBC Radio 4 website. Ingredients 3 large eggs, separated 1 mug of self-raising flour 1 mug of full-fat milk a knob of unsalted butter, melted a pinch of… Read More American Pancakes in Sani
I have recently found several recipes with chocolate and olive oil, for example this Chocolate Olive Oil Cake by Nigella or Thomasina Miers’ Chocolate and olive oil mousse with sea-salt-roasted hazelnuts. I decided to try the recipe below that I found in the Guardian – it’s by Sophie James adapted from The Bojon Gourmet adapted… Read More chocolate and olive oil cake
Below a recipe by my friend Vivian, prepared at her bRother’s house in Punta Negra for Bernardo’s birthday. The cake had no official name –it was partly improvised– so I suggested the name Torta Ceibo, after taking pictures of the cake with the lovely and unique flowers of the Ceibo tree growing in the garden… Read More Vivian’s torta ceibo
A recipe by Thomasina Miers in The Guardian. At the time, I did not have any pumpkin seeds, so was not able to prepare the candied seeds; however, I had some diced stem ginger which I thought would go well, so I used it in the batter! Ingredients 600g pumpkin (or squash), peeled, deseeded and cut… Read More pumpkin cheesecake
