african vanielje on Jul 12 2008 | Filed under: baking, bread, cheese, chocolate, sweet kitchen
Yes, once again I have spent a lazy Saturday morning bread baking, blogsurfing and generally pottering around in a quiet and peaceful house. I’ve drunk copious amounts of coffee, played with my next door neighbour’s new puppy, Perfect. Yes that is really his name, short for Perfect Paradise Mark II. Mark [...]
african vanielje on Jun 11 2008 | Filed under: Africa, Fruit, baking, chocolate, sweet kitchen, vkcb
Fragrant piles of bite sized crispy biscuits are my idea of heaven, and these bitter cocoa butterflies certainly deliver. Simple to make, they rely on excellent quality pure cocoa, so don’t bother with an adulterated, sweetened brand.
Originally taken from Regan Daley’s book ‘In the Sweet Kitchen’, I have made these so many times I [...]
african vanielje on Jun 11 2008 | Filed under: baking, chocolate, food blogging event, ice cream
There are a few things that come to mind as quintessentially British summer: Pimms, a maximum of 3 days of actual summer, a rained out Wimbledon championship, and of course strawberries. Well we’ve now had two hot days in a row which may have broken some sort of English record, and with local [...]
african vanielje on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: chocolate, food blogging event, ice cream, mothers
Along with her eclectic collection of biscuit tins which my mom always keeps stocked with fresh homemade biscuits, she generally has a freezer stash as well. My husband and my dad both have a late night sweet tooth and love nothing better than to snack on her secret hoard of syrupy sweet koeksusters [...]
african vanielje on Feb 05 2008 | Filed under: chocolate, food blogging event, sweet kitchen
Wild berry Chocolate Mousse in a Bitter Chocolate Bramble Cage
The challenge - to make edible art. The theme this Valentine month - chocolate. The blog host Holly of Art You Eat.
This one was fun. My creation is a Wildebraam Dark Chocolate Mousse with Vanielje Cream and Fresh Strawberries in a [...]
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