Category Archives: Dessert
Carob Molasses Cake with honeyed ricotta
Carob Molasses
Made from the pulp of the carob fruit. It is sweet and deep and delicious in its own right. Please don’t use it as a substitute for chocolate, everyone will be disappointed.
Recipes: Carob molasses cake with honeyed ricotta
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Spiced chocolate mousse
It was years ago. The concept of the food blog was in its infancy, Julie and Julia was yet to surface and a whole generation of eaters and cooks were still getting their lo-fi information from the library. A buzzing, flickery hulk of a boxy crt took up most of my desks at home and [...]
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Cocoa brownies + my 201st post on Pikelet and Pie
Excuse me please, things have been a little bit crazy over here. Trying out loads of new food has been taking up some time (from ‘Vietnamese’ BBQ to frozen margaritas), there has been the farewelling of friends (you wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to send a dog to America from Hanoi), and now I’ve [...]
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Tropical custard and jelly, almost trifle.
A few months ago when I was floored by the scent of passionfruit the cubic megatonne I bought made me think of tart jelly. They sat in wrinkling in the fruit bowl mocking me every time I passed. So jelly it was. Actually jelly it always is these days. I seem to have an all out jelly [...]
Passionfruit Semifreddo
Passion fruit, the very description of summer.
Recipes: Passion fruit curd cake, passion fruit curd, Tropical Custard and Jelly, passion fruit semifreddo
