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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 […]
Mocha Cake
Mocha flavour is a combination of chocolate and coffee. This Mocha Cake combines a coffee flavoured cake sandwiched together with two layers of Chocolate Butter Cream, finished with a Chocolate Ganache icing. This cake is very quick to make: just place all ingredients in a bowl and beat together….and done! The following recipe […]
Posted in Cakes and Cupcakes, Icings and Fillings
Chocolate Truffles by Heston Blumenthal
This recipe is by Heston Blumenthal from his How To Cook Like Heston TV programme. Mum and I used the ganache part of this recipe previously to make the filling for our hollow chocolate Easter-themed moulds (see my previous blog). To use the leftover ganache, we continued with the rest of the […]
Posted in Confectionery, Desserts and Puddings
Easter-themed Chocolates and Chocolate Ganache Filling
On Easter Sunday Mum and I made our own Easter-themed Chocolates. We used Whittakers 50% cocoa dark chocolate. Chocolate with at least 50% cocoa solids is recommended for melting (65% and above is better still). Milk chocolate has a lower amount of cocoa solids and white chocolate has none at all, only cocoa […]
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