It started with yet another craving for chocolate hazelnut spread. I was thinking Nutella but, you know, the Nutella I grew up with. Not that sorry, trans fatty, overly sweet, where the hell are the hazelnuts and cacao spread that masquerades as Nutella these days. Yes, I’m a little bitter about it. No, I don’t plan to get over it anytime...
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I usually make a tiramisù at Easter. It is a wonderful tiramisù and deservedly popular. I won’t even bother with false modesty on this one. It’s sensational. Those of you who follow the Facebook page would know that I attended a course on French Entremets earlier in the week and that meant I had plenty of Easter dessert action happening...
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I’d like to say this cake is guilt-free or that it is not a cheat meal … but I don’t subscribe to the notion of cheat meals, nor to the idea that food should ever cause feelings of guilt. I just don’t buy into that dogma. It implies that some foods or food groups are somehow wrong and by eating them we should be punished. ...
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I’ve been playing around with passionfruit in the kitchen for a few weeks now. My natural instincts would have lead me to a tangy, fruity dessert or pastry … passionfruit curd tart, passionfruit macarons, passionfruit and chocolate entremet, passionfruit and vanilla gelato, or a passionfruit and coconut panna cotta perhaps. I could go on. ...
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I know it looks as though I have been totally lazy about posting recipes to the blog of late. But as you can see, there have been some big changes here at Chocolate Chilli Mango. Big? Huge. Enormous. Gigantic. Epic. There’s been change We’ve finally moved ourselves to a new home and a whole new look! What do you...
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