Tag - Chocolate
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Saturday, August 2, 2014
By Mike on Saturday, August 2, 2014, 23:45
August 2014 - a bit of an experiment that I have been wondering about for a while - what happens if you make chocolate chip cookies using duck fat instead of butter?
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
By Mike on Sunday, February 24, 2013, 23:29
February 24, 2013 - This is a recipe for chocolate sandwich biscuits - similar to (and based on) Bourbon Creams, but with a malty cream filling.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
By Mike on Saturday, February 26, 2011, 21:44
These chocolate muffins have two surprises in store - inside the moist chocolate cake, there's a nugget of juicy pear, and the cooked flour frosting is amazingly creamy and light.
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
By Mike on Saturday, July 31, 2010, 23:19
The Military D Ration bar was a chocolate bar designed to be high in energy and highly durable and portable - to provide emergency nutrition in battle.
Let's see if I can re-create it.
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
By Mike on Saturday, December 5, 2009, 22:23
This is not an original concept (this specific recipe is of my own device though) - everybody has been talking about chocolate and beetroot cakes and brownies - and I was curious enough to give it a try...
I am very pleased with their light sponge texture and rounded chocolate flavour.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
By Mike on Monday, August 31, 2009, 23:15
Kinder eggs - 20g of milky chocolate wrapped around small (and often bizarre) toy.
The toy is encased in a snap-closed plastic pod that is too good to throw away - here are a dozen different things you can do with them...
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Friday, August 14, 2009
By Mike on Friday, August 14, 2009, 21:36
This is a recipe for a dark chocolate torte with a luscious velvety texture, filled with rum-soaked raisins.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
By Mike on Sunday, August 10, 2008, 12:23
I came across a reference in one of my wild food books, stating that the flowers of the Lime tree (Tilia spp.), ground up together with the fruits of the same, yielded a substance resembling chocolate. Here's an attempt to replicate that...
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