Archives for the ‘Sweets’ Category

Stop the traffik competition round up

By rkhooks • Oct 9th, 2007 • Category: Biscuits, Bread, Cake, Chocolate, Dessert, Food, Food blog events, Food blogs, Food events, French blogs, Recette en français, Sweets, Tart

Drum roll, please…here are the absolutely fantastic chocotastic entries for the Stop the Traffik chocolate competition. And what a range there has been. Each entry has had me licking my lips and going yum yum. Thanks to everyone who participated I’m truly impressed with all the effort everyone has made. If I’ve forgotten your [...]



Mum’s the best: Chocolate & Orange bread

By rkhooks • Oct 4th, 2007 • Category: Bread, Cake, Chocolate, Food blog events, Sweets

Today we have a *star* guest appearance (well for me, it is) on R khooks. I was absolutely delighted when my Mum sent me her entry for the competition (she was the one to make me aware of the cause). So I was only to happy to put her entry up on my blog. And [...]



Calling all Chocoholics!

By rkhooks • Sep 27th, 2007 • Category: Chocolate, Dessert, Food blog events, Food events, Other, Sweets

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



Stop the Traffik Chocolate competition

By rkhooks • Sep 3rd, 2007 • Category: Chocolate, Food, Food blog events, Other, Sweets

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 [...]



Homemade dulce de leche - Take II

By rkhooks • Jul 30th, 2007 • Category: Dulce de leche, Sweets

I was told by an Argentinian that my version of making Dulce de leche was like comparing supermarket bought ice cream to Berthillon ice cream. I just had to make an authentic Dulce de leche after hearing that. Unfortunately I cooked my ‘milk jam’ a bit too long which made the consistency more [...]