Why shouldn’t beetroot in baking be appreciated just as much as carrots or pumpkin? Let’s bake a wonderful, intensely chocolatey, rich and moist cake with purée made from cooked beetroot! No one will guess what mysterious ingredient is hiding inside, and the cake will stay
Beetroot brownies? Why not ;). Cakes made with vegetables are nothing unusual these days and have quickly become a staple of the food blogging world. You don’t have to look far – most of you have probably already tried carrot cake, spinach cake or courgette
New, wonderfully indulgent chocolate buns! Filled with a chocolate and cinnamon filling, drizzled with icing and decorated with strips of chocolate. They make even the chilliest autumn evenings feel a little cosier – because chocolate has a way of making everything better ;).
White Raffaello truffles made with sweetened condensed milk, without butter or milk powder. They’re wonderfully rich and filling. They’re not quite like the shop-bought Raffaello chocolates, which are more delicate, coated in a crisp wafer and filled with
Suksesssterte – Norwegian vanilla almond cake – is a classic Norwegian dessert and one of the country’s most popular cakes, also traditionally served at Christmas. You may notice similarities to the famous IKEA almond cake with Daim bars: this cake is gluten-free, made with
A wonderful and fairly simple no-bake raspberry cheesecake. Raspberries are added as a purée to the cheesecake mixture, as whole berries inside the cheesecake and again on top. The cheesecake is finished with a white chocolate ganache. Perfect for summer!
A delicate, silky no-bake coconut cheesecake with a milk chocolate topping, inspired by the flavour of a Bounty bar :). This no-bake Bounty cheesecake is simply delicious! It’s hard to imagine a creamier, lighter no-bake cheesecake. The coconut flavour comes from
Flourless peanut butter cookies with no flour or flour substitutes – just peanut butter (you can use homemade peanut butter), an egg and chocolate chips :). The cookies are crisp on the outside, with an intense peanut butter aroma and flavour, and they’re quick and easy
A chocolate cake with halva and blackcurrants. It’s a flavour combination you’ll want to come back to again and again… I used frozen blackcurrants to decorate the cake, but when they’re in season, there’s nothing to stop you using fresh instead. Simple and delicious!
This Strawberry Forest chocolate tart is deeply chocolatey, almost slightly bittersweet, with a delicious chocolate crème pâtissière filling. If you prefer vanilla cream, simply leave out the chocolate in the final recipe. The tart works beautifully with strawberries
Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are simple, buttery biscuits with lightly crisp edges and a soft, chewy centre. The rolled oats give them a distinctive, slightly rustic texture. Packed with dark chocolate chips, they are wonderfully aromatic and pleasantly moist.
I made these cupcakes for Pola’s birthday – much simpler and quicker than making a cake, yet just as festive. Pola chose the chocolate cupcakes and the sweet pink frosting herself. She was delighted – they lived up to her expectations, although she quickly
The best chocolate fruit loaf. This chocolate loaf with prunes and walnuts is dense and substantial, deeply chocolatey and moist without being heavy or stodgy. Packed with plenty of prunes and walnuts, with a hint of orange, it is wonderfully soft. Could this be an alternative
A no-bake milk chocolate tart with raspberries. The base is a simple biscuit crust, topped with an egg-free chocolate mousse and fresh raspberries – it had to taste good ;). This milk chocolate mousse and raspberry tart is perfect for summer.
Black Forest Squares are a combination of chocolate, cream and, of course, cherries :). If, like me, you live in a country where fresh cherries are not particularly popular, you can use frozen cherries with equally good results. The base is my favourite brownie
Seriously loaded cupcakes ;). The deep, tangy flavour of blackcurrants and chocolate is simply irresistible. I made these with the last blackcurrants of the season, but you can make them even in “December in the afternoon” using frozen fruit. These chocolate blackcurrant
A delicious chocolate cheesecake with cherries, or more precisely, cherry frużelina (cherry gel). This is a no-bake cherry chocolate cheesecake made without gelatine in the cheesecake itself: it relies on good-quality, thick quark and chocolate, which allow the
A chocolate cake inspired in both flavour and appearance by the well-known and much-loved Kinder Pingui chocolate bar. Two melt-in-the-mouth chocolate cake layers sandwiched with a light vanilla cream and an additional thin layer of chocolate.