Brigadeiros are a Brazilian dessert, very common at children’s birthday parties, bite size chocolate balls made with condensed milk, cocoa and a little bit of butter. Easy for little hands to manage and sweet enough to keep...
Category - Desserts
Desserts
A little over a year ago I made an attempt to make Pavlova. That’s after I’d tried it in it’s birth place – Australia. It’s amazing how pavlova tastes nice EVERYWHERE you have it in Australia...
I haven’t visited Lancaster in a very very long time. When I was in Grad School in London my cousin had just moved to Lancaster after getting married, I was making plans to visit Lake District not having any idea how close...
I’ve been doing all the birthday cakes for my team ever since I joined. It’s sort of become my thing and at some level I think people expect it as well. I enjoy it, it gives me something to experiment on, a new...
So my last post was prepping for the Bread & Butter pudding which was short listed for dessert on request. The Toffee Sauce that goes with it has been resting and aging well in the fridge. It’s gotten thicker and the...
If you’ve been following my blog, or randomly reading some entries I had mentioned a company restructure announcement at the end of last year where every one was blue for the longest time. The darkest days are now over for...
A few weeks back was my husbands birthday…that’s when I baked the Maple Walnut Cake. I won’t go into the details again of how I got to Maple Walnut Cake, but let’s just say my Maple walnut cake started...
Recently my husband took some time off from work to be a stay-at-home Dad! Not significant time…just 2 weeks.. Till my Mum came to help with the kids and we went back to being corporate slaves. It was a well deserved break...
Isn’t warm Apple Crumble on a freezing day one of the best comfort foods to go to? It helps to shed some of the guilt off because of the fruit. A warm feeling topped with a dollop of good quality vanilla ice cream is perfection...
Our colleagues at work were re-locating so I kept an Italian theme for dinner. The perfect Italian dessert has to be Tiramisu. Tiramisu is my all time favourite dessert. I have to say though, when I was at Mount Holyoke and...