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Home-made Food Gifts
This year I decided to share my foodie passion with my loved ones by providing them with yummy food gifts. Its thoughtful, tailored to individual likes etc and much cheaper than buying sometimes...
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Lollipop Birthday Cake
I made this cake for my little sister Mia’s 9th birthday on December 19th. It’s a fun cake and really easy to make! I used a recipe from Smitten Kitchen as the cake base but baked it in a deep 9 inch...
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Magazine Mondays – Lighter Brownies
I know some people who are radically against any form of lower fat baking. They argue that a cake or cookie is characteristically made with fat and sugar and all things naughty but nice and any baked...
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Chocolate Fudge Cake – Revisited with Roasted Almonds
Proper Chocolate Fudge Cake can be hard to come by. Sure its sold in every supermarket and eatery from greasy shacks to fine dining establishments, but unless you are willing and able to pay big bucks...
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Rocky Road Bars
These bars are based on a Nigella Lawson recipe that I came across on the Food Network UK website. The recipe calls for a whopping 450 grams of mini marshmallows. Once I made up the chocolate base...
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Monkey Cake!
This cake was made for Jess’s nephew’s 3rd birthday a few weeks ago. He has an allergy to eggs so the cake is an egg free chocolate sponge baked in two 8 inch round sandwich tins. An alternative egg...
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Magazine Mondays – Chocolate Muffins
Going low fat again in this week’s Magazine Mondays recipe. This is mere coincidence, this is a recipe I made a while ago from a magazine clipping that was so good I had to include it. And hey, these...
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Chocolate, Coconut and Date Cake
The topping of this cake is so good, Mat and I found we’d simply decapitated and devoured most of the cake! Chunks of smooth chocolate, crisp and fragrant coconut and brown sugar are a topping...
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A Wicked Chocolate Cake
Forget an angelic, light, airy, fluffy sponge. This right here is devilishly dark, rich, moist and luxurious. It’s the bad boy of cakes, the cake your parents would never approve of. The cake that’s...
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Easter Treats – Hot Cross Buns, Fridge Cake and Chocolates
My birthday fell on Easter Monday this year for the third time in my life so far, the first time being the day I was born. It was a great day, seeing special friends and family and a delicious meal at...
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Death by Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
It was Mat’s birthday back in April. He wanted to go to the comic book store but the car was in the garage. So, instead he went to the skate park and my little sister Mia who was staying the weekend...
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Possibly the Worlds Healthiest Chocolate Cake: Beetroot and Avocado Chocolate...
I first saw a recipe for a beetroot chocolate cake about 2 years ago when a recipe came with my weekly organic veg box. Boxes had contained bunches of beetroot for about 4 weeks running and the...
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Homemade Vegan Butter and Rich Hazelnut Hot Chocolate
The lovely Kelly of hearthomemade led me to a recipe for vegan butter over at Vegan Baking. I just had to share how successful the recipe was. Firstly, the ingredients; In the UK, I found refined...
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Beetroot and Avocado Fudge Brownies
Brownies are one of the most personal desserts there is. People like them in very specific forms – cake-y, gooey, fudgey, crunchy, with nuts, with chocolate chips, or with dried fruit. For me, I’m...
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Chocolate Frosted Coconut Cupcakes
After a wonderful week spent in Paphos, Cyprus, I return to share with you a wonderfully decadent cupcake recipe. A week of eating salad, houmous and pita every day for a week had me craving many of...
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Happy Halloween! Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins Happy Halloween!! I’m still working through my box full of pumpkin and squash living in my bedroom cupboard. I’m loving trying pumpkin in ways never known to me before....
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Virtual Vegan Potluck – Layered Coconut Mousse with Chocolate Brownie and...
Welcome Potluckers! I am so excited to the participating in the Virtual Vegan Potluck for the second time! The May potluck was such fun, I had a PJ day, and did nothing but scroll through the potluck,...
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DIY Natural Cocoa Brunette Hair Colour Enhancer
This is a product for the ultimate shower experience. The chocolate shower. This is chocolate indulgence at it’s best – and, well without the calories! I promise your chocolate cravings will be...
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Wonderful Nuts Review and Raw Chocolate Salted Almond Tart
I was thrilled to receive a generous parcel of Wonderful Pistachios and Almonds to review last week. Nuts are a huge part of my diet, I use them in savoury dishes such as curries, in sweet desserts...
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From Snowballs to Chestnut Truffles to Peanut Butter Fudge: The final pieces...
So here it is, after 2 days (and nights) blanked out for a kitchen marathon, I have finally waded through my Christmas baking list and gift baskets are now being put together with the first two...
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