Poires Belle Helene – Poached Pears in Chocolate Sauce

Purists look away now, I had run out of vanilla ice cream so I used cookie dough ice cream! It works šŸ™‚ I nearly forgot to post a chocolate recipe for April! So this one is getting in by the skin of it’s teeth.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

  Chocolate Chip Cookies. Nothing ground-breaking to see here. But it’s the simple things in life that are really special. The smell of the cookies as you take them out of the oven is amazing.

‘Instant’ Buttermilk Pancakes with Berry Compote

There’s a big day coming up – Pancake Tuesday!! One of my favourite days of the year.

Chocolate Pavlova with Mascarpone Cream

I have a wee dilemma with this recipe. I absolutely love it. It’s chewy and rich and chocolatey and all things nice. When I made it recently though I was told, “You can’t call it pavlova, it’s not a pavlova!”

Chocolate Brownies

 

Sticky Gingerbread

  This is another recipe from the wonderful Nigella Christmas. I promise that will be the end of my sweet treats recipes for a while and back to the proper business of real food. Well, for a week or so anyway!

White Chocolate, Cranberry and Pistachio Lollipops

I realised earlier thatĀ I never posted a chocolate recipeĀ in November and I promised I would do at least one a month. So here it is, literally at the last minute. But look, it’s so pretty! This is based on a Lorraine Pascale recipe and it couldn’t be easier. In the original recipe it is just […]

Waffles

I love waffles! Whenever I go somewhere that there’s a food fair, I check to see if there is a waffle stand. I always liked them quite plain just with a dusting of sugar. Then we went on holidays to the Las Vegas and every morning I had breakfast of waffles with whipped cream and […]