Chocolate and Pistachio Biscotti

I used Stacie Stewart's recipe for biscotti to make for my friends as part of their Christmas presents.

The picture below is after its first baking.

 

 

Then the dough gets cut into strips and baked again at a lower temperature.

Great recipe, my strips were quite thick so were more like a brownie texture.

 

Nut Fudge Brownies

Great brownie recipe from Stacie Stewart's Stacie Bakes cookbook. Really moist.



Best Hot Chocolate Ever

I had the best hot chocolate I've ever had the other day at Cocoba, Bluewater.

 

I had a cinnamon hot chocolate, and my friends had a ginger hot chocolate and a mint cold chocolate.

 

All served with a delicious chocolate truffle.

Happy Halloween!

 



 

Pumpkin Cake

 

150g butter

300g caster sugar

3 eggs

240g self raising flour

225g grated pumpkin

1tsp mixed spice

100g raisins

 

pumpkin seeds

caster sugar

icing sugar

orange juice

 

Preheat the oven to gas 4. Cream the butter and sugar.
Add the remaining cake ingredients and mix well.
Bake for 45 minutes.

 

Sprinkle pumpkin seeds with sugar and bake on a tray for 10 minutes. Add a few drops of orange juice to a small bowlful of icing sugar. Spread onto the cooled cake and add the seeds.

 

 

Soda Bread

This is my first attempt at soda bread.

 

170g plain flour

170g self raising whole wheat flour

1/2tsp salt

1/2tsp bicarb

 1/2 pint warm milk with 1 tbsp lemon juice

Combine all ingredients with a fork. Turn onto a baking tray, score, sprinkle with oats and bake for thirty minutes at 200C/gas 6.

Gluten Free Orange Cake

This recipe came from my cousin's mother in law. She's Australian and cooked it for me when I went out there with oranges from her garden.

2 oranges

250g sugar

250g ground almonds

5 eggs

Boil the oranges for thirty minutes, then blitz. Whisk the sugar and eggs together then add the almonds and the orange pulp. Bake for an hour at 200C/gas 6.

This time I just topped the cake off with chopped chocolate.

Broadstairs Food Festival, Kent

Here is a selection of the delicious baked goods at last weekends Broadstairs Food Festival.

 

I had a hog roast roll, crepe, falafel wrap, Viennese finger and a blackberry cider over the weekend. All were delicious!