Just a quick reminder for all those chocholics! Don’t forget to send me your entries for the Stop the traffik chocolate competition. Deadline is next Friday 5th Monday 8th October.

P.S. If anyone can guess correctly what I made (see photo above). I’ll send you a fairtrade chocolate bar

Everyone loves chocolate (O.K. there are a few oddbods who aren’t chocolate fans).The amount of chocolate we consume is astounding. The Swiss (at 22.36 lbs/yr per person) come tops in chocolate consumption, followed by the Austrians (20.13 lbs/yr per person)…the States are 11th with 11.64 lbs/yr per person (for more stats click here). That’s one [...]

Guess who’s birthday it is today? Mine and for a change somebody made me a cake (although I was the Sous chef). The kids I look after made me this amazing chocolate cake with a strawberry mousse filling. Now I know my cake and this is definetly GOOD (with capitals). I make cakes almost everyday [...]

Yum yum pig’s bum as my Irish friend says. These little brownie cheesecake babies are delish. I’ve used my favourite Brownie recipe by Nigel Slater (minus slightly less sugar) ‘melanged’ with a creamy cheese dulce de leche mix.
The sweet deep chocolately taste combined with the tangy ‘slightly salty sour’ cream cheese made these little brownies [...]

On Thursday we had our little ‘flowery’ event @ La Cocotte for the book launch of ‘Petits bouquets de cuisine’. There were flowery mocktails and these little raspberry dahlia mousses with mint choc leaves. Absolutely delish! I couldn’t stop eating the mint choc leaves. Think After eight but without the sweet filling and calories.
Just [...]