Tag: chocolate

Pumpkin Scones: Chocolate Chip or Cheesy!

Pumpkin Scones: Chocolate Chip or Cheesy!

This versatile (and Hallowe’en-appropriate) recipe was inspired by a batch of delicious pumpkin and chocolate chip cookies whipped up by my lovely friend James. I was trying to work out an unfussy recipe to use up the flesh scooped out of our obligatory Hallowe’en pumpkin, and 

Spooky Chocolate & Ginger Hallowe’en Cake

Spooky Chocolate & Ginger Hallowe’en Cake

Thoughts of a Hallowe’en bake automatically conjured up visions of pumpkin-themed everything for me. After a few failed attempts at incorporating pumpkin into a cake, however, I decided to revert to that other oh-so-warming flavour; ginger. For me, the smell of an earthy ginger cake 

Soft-Bake Bounty Cookies

Soft-Bake Bounty Cookies

Ok, I know full well that Bounty is not, ahem, everyone’s idea of ‘a taste of paradise’. But fear not; you can safely omit the chunks of chocolate-encased coconut and replace with your choice of chocolate chips, chopped nuts (hazelnuts work well) or indeed chopped 

Grasshopper Pie [aka Peppermint Aero Pie]

Grasshopper Pie [aka Peppermint Aero Pie]

Grasshopper Pie, if you’ve not heard of it before, is a retro-classic American sweet pie. Particularly popular in the South, it’s a chocolate biscuit-crusted beauty full of peppermint flavoured, marshmallowy cream. Topped with more cream. I’ve lusted after it for a few years now, as 

Rainy Day Cookies

Rainy Day Cookies

These are the cookies I make when I want to occupy my daughter but I don’t have many lavish ingredients lying around.  (Usually on a Sunday!) The recipe contains no melted chocolate – only cocoa powder – but the result is an excellent chocolate biscuit 

Raspberry & Hazelnut Cheesecake (Low-carb, gluten-free)

Raspberry & Hazelnut Cheesecake (Low-carb, gluten-free)

This is my first cheesecake recipe post (it certainly won’t be my last) and it also happens to be both low-carb and gluten free, although you’d never know it. This is a rich and creamy treat that’s not overly sweet, perfect for an after dinner 

Black Forest Brownies

Black Forest Brownies

If you claim not to like Black Forest Gateaux, I’m afraid I just don’t believe you. Chocolate cake, cherries and cream. Seriously, what’s not to like? If I’d been a housewife in the 1970s, I can guarantee my hostess trolley would’ve been frequently sagging under the 

Cowboy Cookies

Cowboy Cookies

These gloriously moreish, rustic cookies are based on traditional chunky oat biscuits, but mine are jam-packed with flavours and no two batches are alike – because I keep a Cowboy Cookie Jar. You know how it is – you buy a packet of nuts for a recipe,