african vanielje on Jul 12 2008 | Filed under: vkcb
This is a very quick and easy loaf, enriched with a little butter and sugar and flavoured with cocoa powder and dark chocolate chips. It is not as sweet as you might think, and is delicious as toast or with cream cheese or mascarpone as a snack.
Sift 3 cups of organic strong white flour (bread [...]
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: Fruit, baking, kids cooking, sweet kitchen
Biscuits are one of the things I most enjoy making. Not least because I love to bake. Biscuits are versatile, varied and generally very easy. A delicious batch can be knocked up in no time from ingredients I almost always have on hand.
Most cookie doughs are not only addictively yummy eaten raw, [...]
african vanielje on May 25 2008 | Filed under: vkcb
The great thing about this recipe is that you can customize it and use your own flavours. I like to use all organic ingredients, a sweet local honey and some sour cherries to stop it from being too cloying. If you like you can up the sugar and lessen the honey as [...]
african vanielje on May 23 2008 | Filed under: baking, superfood
This week was my daughter’s first ever school camp. She, despite her excitement overdrive was extremely organised about the whole thing. Sunday morning dawned bright and indecently early as it always does in summer. But in direct opposition to the enthusiastic dawn chorus I was determined to have a lazy Sunday [...]
