Cookies & Cakes
For someone who proclaims that they aren’t a chocaholic, I sure seem to post a lot of chocolate recipes! Am I just in denial? Perhaps somewhere under this hardened exterior lies a sweet, gooey, intense rush of chocolate love?
Maybe I should just take a deep breath, step forward and admit it - my name is [...]
With the success of this humble yet untried (by me) recipe, I get to mark yet another food-to-try off my list!
The humble sponge roulade - otherwise known as a swiss or jam roll. It seems simple enough, nay, in it’s barest of forms it almost seems a bit plain-jane or boring! Nonetheless, I had put [...]
Is this enough chocolate for ya?
So, I may have missed the deadline for Sugar High Friday: The Chocolate Sessions, but that doesn’t mean I can’t post about this cake now, does it? 
Despite my numerous claims that I’m not a chocaholic (I’m not - promise!), I find myself drawn to cooking with it again [...]
Or, alternative title: How I was seduced by Pierre Hermé
Have you ever had a recipe that you’ve looked at and gone “Nah, I couldn’t make that!”? Ever looked through a cookbook and marvelled at some gloriously delicious looking dish, and toyed with the idea of creating it, only to then laugh and put it away [...]
These cookies aren’t the kind that will win any beauty pagents. No siree bob, these are the kind of cookies that would make the mirror crack as they groomed their warty selves in the morning whilst asking any available reflective surface if they were pretty - in the hopes that one would survive the ensuing [...]
