Tag Archives: chocolate

Chocolate, prune and rum biscuits

Bourke Street Bakery opened in Marrickville the perfect distance from my house a few months before I left. It was within walking distance, but not too close that I could just duck out for a brulee tart or chocolate croissant whenever I felt the urge, which was altogether too often. Last spring made itself known [...]

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Chocolate and cinnamon meringue

I don’t love macarons. I understand the attraction all crisp, soft and chewy with an acceptance and adaptability to different wild and wonderful flavourings. Sure, I like them and you know I’ll eat them by the bucketload but they don’t make my heart sing. I think I may have suffered a macaron overdose back in [...]

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Chocolate beer cake.

The combination of chocolate and beer isn’t new, I hear they even have a chocolate beer out of Sapporo now, but I never considered it a viable option until recently. I figure it was an inevitable next step though, on account of my beer drinking finally catching up to my chocolate eating. A large beer [...]

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Chocolate orange cake with orange blossom cream, A Secret Dinner dessert

What to serve for dessert for 30 people? Even the most kitchen and food challenged amongst us could guess that a souffle was out. Simple classics like tiramisu were ruled out too as they ranked too high on the boring scale. It was a no as well to creme brulee, traditional pannacotta and other sweet [...]

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Milan Cookies – Daring Bakers July Challenge

The July Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network.
 
Biscuits remind me of home, family. My Grandma makes wonderful biscuits, my favourites are buttery and crisp with a dark chocolate round pressed into the top. [...]

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