Everyone has their staple chocolate cupcake recipe, and this is mine. The best chocolate cupcakes you will ever make. What’s so great about them? I like to think their greatness is three-fold: Firstly, they are made from melted chocolate rather than cocoa. This does mean the ingredients you will need for these are a little…
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Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
I can’t even cope with these double chocolate chip cookies. I’ve eaten so many of them that I’m not sure I’m going to fit in my wedding dress for my first fitting next week. If you too want a cookie that you cannot stop eating, then these are the babies for you. It is scientifically…
Salted Caramel Brownies (Gluten Free)
Happy Wednesday! It’s almost the weekend (well, kind of), and to celebrate I have got some absolutely devine salted caramel brownies to share with you today. They are bloody gorgeous. Controversially, salted caramel isn’t really one of my favourite flavours. Why on Earth did I make these salted caramel brownies then? Well, ever since Alexa…
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bars
Peanut butter, chocolate, and cookies. Surely it doesn’t get any better than that? Well, let me introduce you to my chocolate and peanut butter bars. In case you guys hadn’t noticed, I really like baking. But what I really love is baking things for Katie. And I have never had such an amazing reception from her…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies are one of my favourite thinks to bake. They are so easy to make, and result in very minimal amounts of washing up to do afterwards – which is fantastic if you don’t even have a dishwasher. They are better than other types of biscuits, because you don’t need to mess around…
Soft Amaretto Cookies (Gluten Free)
Morning everyone 🙂 Today I’m bringing you sweet and soft amaretto cookies, which include a generous helping of my alcohol of choice – Disaronno. Just a quick post today – I’ve reached the stage in the wedding planning process where my to-do list is becoming more of a to-do book. Luckily, these soft amaretto cookies…
Champagne Layer Cake with Raspberry Buttercream
A light and fluffy white sponge cake, subtly flavoured with champagne, and smothered in creamy raspberry buttercream. This champagne layer cake is recipe #2 in my hunt for delicious cake flavour combinations for our wedding cake. Remember how badly the peach layer cake went? Thankfully, this time things were a lot more successful. This cake uses only…
Gingerbread Pancakes (without Molasses)
Soft and fluffy gingerbread pancakes, drizzled with home made warm lemon sauce. Perfect for a lazy Sunday morning breakfast. If you live in the UK, tomorrow is Pancake Day. Yep, we have a whole day set aside just to eat pancakes. One of the main problems we face as a nation is that our ‘pancakes’…
Coconut Ice
Morning all. This is my ‘Valentine’s Day’ recipe – the ever-so unromantic Coconut Ice. I decided to make something pink, because pink = love, right? But then I went and coloured them peach. Top marks for me. I’m trying to rebuild my relationship with the peach food colouring I bought to make the peach disaster…
Champagne Truffles
I’t’s my birthday in two days! So bring on the champagne truffles 🙂 Champagne truffles are my number one favourite fancy chocolate. One day Katie and I will have to move out and live in a cardboard box due to my Hotel Chocolat champagne truffle addiction. And it’s pretty cold in the UK. To save…
Easter Egg Ice Cream
Rich home made Easter egg ice cream, crammed full of crushed Mini Egg and Creme Egg pieces. Perfect for an Easter treat 🙂 If I was stuck on a desert island, the one thing I would take with me is a tonne of chocolate ice cream. And a freezer. Chocolate ice cream is my vice. And…
Dark Chocolate and Raspberry Banana Muffins
Today I’m bringing you some incredibly moist banana muffins, packed full of fresh raspberries and dark chocolate chips. And please accept my apologies for use of the word moist. It’s going to happen again in about 50 words time, so if that is going to upset you, then you have my permission to leave now….
Ferrero Rocher Truffles
I’ve almost finished my Christmas stash of Ferrero Rocher chocolates 🙁 Oh well, only one thing to do – make some of these delicious Ferrero Rocher truffles to keep me going all the way through January. Those gold Nutella-filled chocolates have always been my favourite. And every Christmas I will attempt to eat my…
Flapjacks with Apricot, Cranberry & Orange
These flapjacks are perfect if you want to pretend that your New Year’s resolution to eat more healthily is still going strong, when actually these beauties include a tonne of sugar and syrup. But there’s oats and fruit, so that makes it all okay. Right? These are the type of flapjacks that are soft and…
Fortune Cookies
These Fortune Cookies are loads of fun, and they actually taste amazing too. We have a New Year’s Eve tradition in our house – board game night. There is even a trophy (it looks very similar to this one from Friends – troll doll and everything). Katie has been victorious for the past two years, but…