Tag: chocolate
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Vegan Black Bean Brownies That Taste Amazing
I’ve seen various versions of these black bean brownies on Instagram for years before I decided to actually make them. The reason for my reluctance was the whole combination of black beans, chocolate and avocado seemed a bit ‘ick’. Dairy-free, gluten-free and vegan- friendly, something so nutritionally virtuous could not possibly make a decent sweet…
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Irresistible – Salted Sesame Chocolate Cookies Recipe with Tahini and Dark Chocolate
I’ve got quite a few chocolate chip cookie recipes on this website, and each one of those recipes in some way aspires to greatness so I’m a bit reluctant to add yet another chocolate chip cookie into the canons of cookie greatness … but these cookies!!! I recently made a double batch of these to…
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Easy Vegan Chocolate Mousse with a Mexican Twist
I used to make these chocolate puddings regularly about eight years ago, when this recipe was doing the rounds of a lot of food blogs. I have noticed similar versions of vegan chocolate tofu mousse have recently gone viral on Instagram. It is such simple recipe that it perfect for an Instagram reel. Basically you…
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Best brown butter chocolate toffee cookies recipe
] I first read about these cookies about eighteen months ago, via Twitter. The claim was these were the best chocolate chip cookies ever. Something which, given how obsessed the internet is with chocolate chip cookies, seemed like a pretty big claim to make. Unfortunately, the recipe required a chocolate toffee bar such as Daim,…
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Homemade Salted Caramel Chocolate Slice Recipe
There is something very homely but elegant about an old fashioned slice. When I was a kid, my mother had about half a dozen slice recipes that were family favourites. In the days when most sweets were homemade, a slice was less labour intensive than biscuits and kept better than cake. Cut into small one…
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Why British Hobnobs Are the Perfect Dunking Biscuit
A couple of months ago we went to a friend’s place for lunch and my son was introduced to the delights of chocolate coated hobnobs. It’s hard to believe it took twelve and a half years for my son to taste his first chocolate hobnob but once tasted you can never go back. He’s now…
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Special Occasion Homemade Oreo Cookies Recipe
I’ve made these oreos for years, ever since I first bookmarked the recipe on Smitten Kitchen in 2007. In all the time I’ve made oreos, I don’t think I’ve ever made a single batch, I’ve always doubled the recipe. These are party, special occasion cookies and a single batch doesn’t cut it when you have…
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Easy Chocolate Cupcake Recipe with Buttermilk and Creamy Brown Sugar Icing
Last Thursday night, I had to make a quick batch of chocolate cupcakes for a cake stall at my son’s school on Friday morning. After a swimming lesson and a trip to the shops, it was past six o’clock before we got home and I started dinner. My son had requested chocolate cupcakes so I…
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Irresistible Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe
I’ve been making this cake for years now, ever since I first saw it on the world’s most famous food blog, Smitten Kitchen, in 2006. It is Deb Perelman’s mother’s recipe and Deb claims it may be one of the main reasons her husband married her. This, I can believe, because this cake is worth…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 