No Butter Chocolate Cake

  No Butter Chocolate Cake with whipped chocolate ganache filling and chocolate ganache icing with a side of honey toffee walnuts.     This is an excellent, versatile, and quick chocolate cake recipe that uses oil instead of butter. This is now my standard ‘go-to-chocolate-cake-recipe’. It is also a very forgiving recipe, in the sense […]

Honey Toffee Walnuts

    This recipe is one of the reasons why I don’t mind scavenging around under walnut trees on cold autumn days, because these toasted walnuts covered in crispy toffee are absolutely delicious. Eat them as a tasty snack on their own, or chop them up finely to use as cake decorations, dessert topping, or […]

Baileys Chocolat Luxe Shots in Hollow Chocolate Easter Eggs

  What goes great with chocolate? More chocolate of course (and even better is alcohol disguised as chocolate). I had a bottle of Baileys limited edition Chocolate Luxe and some hollow chocolate Easter Eggs, and this is the result:     These are great for after dinner treats. You could even put the Baileys in […]

Turkish Delight and Strawberries

    The flavours of strawberry and Turkish delight go really well together. It’s even better with a bit of chocolate! So I used Walkers of London Chocolate covered Turkish Delights, which are squares of thin Turkish delight, encased in a crisp shell of chocolate. I halved these squares from corner to corner to create […]

Whole Artichokes with Lemon Butter Sauce

  My own home-grown and organically grown, artichoke drenched in Lemon Butter Sauce, with side dishes containing extra lemon butter for dipping the petals in, and a finger bowl with lemon juice and water to rinse buttery fingers.   Here are my artichokes! Their colouring is so very pretty with shades of aubergine, green, and […]