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Speedy Chocolate Cake

Speedy Chocolate Cake

admin November 24, 2010 0

This speedy chocolate cake is ideal if you need a chocolate fix in a hurry. It only takes 10 minutes to prepare, and 30 to bake. It doesn’t taste rushed, and delivers on every

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Sausage Rolls

Sausage Rolls

admin November 23, 2010 0

I love sausage rolls, either fresh from the oven while steaming hot, or warmed up and served with some chips and ketchup. I love Christmas because I can eat as many as I want and nobody

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Puff Pastry

Puff Pastry

admin November 22, 2010 1

Making puff pastry is rapidly becoming a dying art. With the advent of ready-made puff available in supermarkets, many find it much easier to buy it than make it. For those of you who

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Toffee Chocolate Pavlova

Toffee Chocolate Pavlova

admin November 12, 2010 0

This Toffee Chocolate Pavlova recipe is right on season as far as I’m concerned. It’s a mixture of toffee, caramel and chocolate, which in my book is the dessert holy trinity of sweet things.

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Chocolate Cheesecake

Chocolate Cheesecake

admin November 8, 2010 0

This chocolate cheesecake recipe was inspired by an episode of Come Dine With Me I watched over the weekend. It’s a nice combination of light cheesecake with the decadence of chocolate. Ingredients 900g cream

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Coffee Cake

Coffee Cake

admin November 1, 2010 1

Coffee cake is one of my favourites. I made this recipe at the weekend, it won me brownie points galore. It’s a subtle coffee flavour, it isn’t over the top. The icing and filling

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Brain Cakes

Brain Cakes

admin October 29, 2010 0

This brain cake recipe takes a simple cupcake and adds a horrific twist. Perfectly safe, but gruesome enough that kids will love it. Ingredients For the cakes 125g  soft margarine 125g caster sugar 2

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Brownie Tombstones

Brownie Tombstones

admin October 27, 2010 0

I’m quite a fan of brownies, despite them being a little on the sweet side, they combine cake and cookie quite well in my opinion. You could make tombstones out of biscuits or cookie,

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Worm Jelly

Worm Jelly

admin October 26, 2010 0

This worm jelly is more inspiration than recipe. It’s a quick, cheap and easy Halloween snack that will delight the fiend in anyone. Ingredients 6-8 gum worm sweets 1 packet lime jelly 1 packet

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Toffee Apples

Toffee Apples

admin October 25, 2010 0

Halloween wouldn’t be the same without toffee apples. Sticky, sweet, with one of your five a day. How cool is that? Ingredients 225 g demerara sugar 110 ml water 0.5 tsp vinegar 2 tbsp

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