This dead easy recipe from Trish Deseine’s wonderful book Chocolate is a household staple. This is my version, sized down to fit my 26cm (10″) flan dish (and comfortably serving 4 – 5).
150g (5.5 oz) good dark chocolate (I use Callebaut)
150g (5.5 oz) unsalted butter
4 large eggs
150g (5.5 oz) sugar
Preheat oven to 180C (350F).
Melt butter [...]
I tried making my own Malaysian style prawn crackers this year. They’re made from Australian Crystal Bay Prawns (banana prawns) and tapioca flour. I’ve realised there are two separate skill components here – the making is a long, laborious process, but the deepfrying is equally as tricky, and contributes just as much to the final [...]
I tried the yoghurt cake recipe again today, this time filled with Pete’s white nectarine and strawberry conserve. It’s delicious!
Made with Pete’s homemade caramel sauce, toasted almonds and Belgian chocolate.
Yesterday I tried two new cookie recipes, both of which were made in the food processor. (I’m lazy – if I have to wash the food processor, I might as well make good use of it while it’s out). The first is a chocolate oatmeal cookie from the Jacques Pepin Celebrates cookbook. It’s particularly interesting [...]
It’s been ages since I’ve made fruit cake, but a chance purchase of 2L of black rum inspired me to make one yesterday. Unlike the “old days” (e. 15 years ago when we were making fruit cakes regularly), this one was baked in a large bundt pan. Because of that, it cooked in only 1.5 [...]
Tried a new yoghurt cake recipe today which was joyous in its simplicity – it didn’t need a mixer, it didn’t need butter, and it produced a very interesting, fine textured cake which was almost a cross between cake and bread. The other thing that was particularly nice about it was that we were able [...]
…filled with a few marinated olives left over from the last pizza night. The mix is 50:50 light rye to bread flour, and even though the hydration was very high, it still produced a dense, fine crumbed loaf, albeit with great oven spring. This is small boy’s new favourite loaf!
