I have decided to set myself a mini challenge for the next few weeks, to bake using chocolate. A strange thing to say considering its chocolate, but I honestly don’t use it very much. I am very much a fruit or caramel or spice kind of girl, when the dessert trolley comes my way I’ll always look for the fruitiest option, and bypass the chocolate cake all together. So I’m going to explore my chocolate options for the...
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Now I know what you are all thinking, homemade hot chocolate drinking powder in May? I know I know spring has sprung, the birds are frisky and the flowers are blooming. But I live in Scotland where there are still the occasional hailstorms, the temperature is still struggling to climb above 7 and the daffodils have only just opened. It’s still cold and nothing is better then a big hug in a mug from hot chocolate with or without all...
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Now I know this is everywhere on the Internet at the moment and there are 101 different recipes out there but I have done you the good dead of testing a bunch of them out to find not only the best one but also an easy one to make. Jump to Recipe: Some were so complicated; I couldn’t even be bothered to give them a go. Now I love a challenge but I don’t want to have to work really hard for my treats and in return I don’t want you...
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Homemade Lemon Curd A little something that’s easy to whip up to beat those post-Easter blues, homemade lemon curd. There is something so lovely about the flavour of lemon, its zingy and fresh and goes almost perfectly with anything, sweet or savoury. I had an abundance of lemons the other day and had to think what to do with them. My partner was due home from sea and one of his favourite things is lemon curd. He buys it by the bucket...
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So why Vanilla and Yellow Plum Jam? Simple, whenever I have the chance I like to make my own jam and this Vanilla and Yellow Plum Jam is awesome 😉 I think its because my mum always made her own jam that I enjoy having it at home now, many a summer in our childhood my mum would take my sister and I fruit picking, at first we would complain but the homemade cakes and jams soon made up for it. I have nothing against shop-bought jams I do...
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