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
Below two recipes from the Best of Bake Off collection. I’ve watched this programme only occasionally but both the Chelsea buns and the crackers by Brendan Lynch are so tasty, that I am looking forward to having the time and energy to try the Key Lime pie too! Chelsea buns I used my bread-machine to make… Read More buns & crackers
