While shopping with my very good friend and fellow home-baker Heather yesterday I came across a cookbook hidden in a pile of random books 'The best of Cadbury's chocolate cooking' and for £2.99 i thought "yeah I'll have a bit of that"
I've read it savoured and salivated over the pictures, short listed my favourites and still not quite decided on which one to make first....
It may be my chocolate purest coming out but when i make something chocolaty I'm not the sort of person who likes loads of fruit or oatmeal chucked in unless its absolutely necessary. I don't want chocolate recipes that pretend to be a little bit healthy (ooo look at me I'm full of dried fruit and nuts I'm almost healthy.... just don't count the calories) I'm strangely o.k with one slice being all you need in one sitting because its quite sweet. Well hello!!! of coarse its sweets i made it with several bars of chocolate I'd be damn disappointed if it wasn't.
I want to make something that practically calls my name in the middle of the night so that I absolutely have to go to fridge to sample just a little bit more in order to sleep soundly for the rest of the night.
It needs to be something I feel vaguely guilty about letting my children eat in case their teeth are never the same again, do you understand? its suppose to be a treat.
Don't get me wrong its not that I don't like using the other ingredients (although if I'm honest with you i don't actually like nuts at all.... or fruit for that, i still pick the currants out of my teacakes if I feel there are too many) I love making things for other people that require raisins and hazelnuts etc. its just not for me and this will be made for me to eat.
Its also slightly disheartening to realise that nearly every recipe wants you to use Bournville chocolate my least favourite of all the Cadbury family.
So i have chosen to make the Irish coffee gateau. I will go and buy the ingredients tomorrow and keep you dated.
Maybe this book wasn't as good a find as I'd first thought......
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Chocolate fudge hot-pot pudding
The pictures don't do it justice, this was one of the nicest gooiest warm soft puddings I've eaten. I served it with a nice vanilla ice cream and loved every chocolaty second of it. However.......
The kids hated it! each one was given a little portion with a scoop of ice cream and not one of them liked it! various comments were made apart from, sorry I just don't like it, were it's too chocolaty, its to squidgy, its to soft, it tastes bad were all comments as well.
So this is a fail I feel.
Despite the fact that i personally love it (and kept the leftovers in the fridge to heat up and eat myself in the evenings)
When you first put the spoon in to the sponge to dish it up, there is just the right amount of gooie chocolate sponge mixed tantalisingly with just enough liquid chocolate to add that little bit of naughtiness.
This is the kind of pudding that makes you think sod it I never wanted to loose weight anyway.
It was so simple to make and despite the children's reaction I feel would make any adults very happy.
The downside (providing you liked it in the first place) is that once it was sat there for a while the liquid chocolate is absorbed into the sponge, so you don't get that slightly liquid centre again, but it is still worth eating.
The kids hated it! each one was given a little portion with a scoop of ice cream and not one of them liked it! various comments were made apart from, sorry I just don't like it, were it's too chocolaty, its to squidgy, its to soft, it tastes bad were all comments as well.
So this is a fail I feel.
Despite the fact that i personally love it (and kept the leftovers in the fridge to heat up and eat myself in the evenings)
When you first put the spoon in to the sponge to dish it up, there is just the right amount of gooie chocolate sponge mixed tantalisingly with just enough liquid chocolate to add that little bit of naughtiness.
This is the kind of pudding that makes you think sod it I never wanted to loose weight anyway.
It was so simple to make and despite the children's reaction I feel would make any adults very happy.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Challenge 3
Having walked home 2 very grumpy and tired boys, and expecting a visit from a grumpy tired boyfriend when he finishes work and the arrival of my eldest son from his school trip at 7 pm I have decided challenge 3 needs to be something warm and comforting and a bit of a treat (in the hope everyone will relax and enjoy the food).
Having looked about I have decided that I will be baking Chocolate Fudge Hot-Pot Pudding.
It calls for 125g unsalted butter
125g caster sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
4 large eggs
4 tbs of coca powder
75g self raising flour
50g of chocolate
1 tsp milk
and for the sauce,
4 tbs coca powder
125g light muscovado sugar
300ml very hot water.
As always I will take photo's and report back on how it all goes and if it can put smiles on this lot i will consider it a new family classic!
Having looked about I have decided that I will be baking Chocolate Fudge Hot-Pot Pudding.
It calls for 125g unsalted butter
125g caster sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
4 large eggs
4 tbs of coca powder
75g self raising flour
50g of chocolate
1 tsp milk
and for the sauce,
4 tbs coca powder
125g light muscovado sugar
300ml very hot water.
As always I will take photo's and report back on how it all goes and if it can put smiles on this lot i will consider it a new family classic!
The bread postmortem
Was it edible I hear you ask? yeah it wasn't to bad...it wasn't to great either mind you, it tasted... well like bread which I suppose is exactly what you want.
I found it slightly doughy when eaten plain but thought it was lovely as toast (with butter and Marmite on it)
I think it could have done with being cooked a little longer for no other reason that it was a bit pale in colour.
but as home-made breads go it was really quite nice.
Do I think Hovis are quaking in their boots? god no! Do I think that practise would make it a lot better? hell yes.
Am I going to put the time and effort in to making loaf after loaf to perfect the skill? um no probably not but I might try it again if we ran out of shop bought bread, or like last year we become snowed in.
Was it fun to make? actually yeah I enjoyed the whole process and but it just wasn't as satisfying as the cupcake bake.
All in all a good result I feel.
Now what's next??
I found it slightly doughy when eaten plain but thought it was lovely as toast (with butter and Marmite on it)
I think it could have done with being cooked a little longer for no other reason that it was a bit pale in colour.
but as home-made breads go it was really quite nice.
Do I think Hovis are quaking in their boots? god no! Do I think that practise would make it a lot better? hell yes.
Am I going to put the time and effort in to making loaf after loaf to perfect the skill? um no probably not but I might try it again if we ran out of shop bought bread, or like last year we become snowed in.
Was it fun to make? actually yeah I enjoyed the whole process and but it just wasn't as satisfying as the cupcake bake.
All in all a good result I feel.
Now what's next??
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