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 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: 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 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 Mar 09 2008 | Filed under: vkcb
These gorgeous little pastry creampuffs should be the size of a plum. Small enough to eat in one bite but big enough to have to stretch your jaws to get that one bite in!
First make the Choux pastry.
Once baked and cooled, pipe some sweetened Chantilly cream into the buns until the cream is bursting [...]
