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Sudden Cravings: 10 Decadent Chocolate Cake Recipes. Caramel Apple Layer Cake with Apple Cider Frosting. We celebrated my twin sisters’ turning 18 with this spectacular cake.

Caramel Apple Layer Cake with Apple Cider Frosting

When you are cooking for two (or a family of 8, for that matter) it’s hard to please every individual palate. One sister loves peanut butter, another won’t go near it. And so it goes. Nigel Slater's pudding for autumn recipe. 23 September You could measure my life in summer puddings, those bulging, gloriously juicy globes of raspberries and currants held prisoner by slices of bread.

Nigel Slater's pudding for autumn recipe

I used to make them daily at a cafe a hundred years ago and can't get out of the habit. The first one of the year is always a traditional raspberry and redcurrant, but then I get into a more contemporary mood and swap the fruits around. In the past it has appeared in my kitchen made with gooseberries (Tender Volume II, and so good with thick, yellow unpasteurised cream), or with lots of blackcurrants in with the raspberries (serve with vanilla ice cream) but I have always wondered if damsons – as you probably know, a favourite fruit of mine – would be a worthy addition for when the currant season has finished.

With the exception of the slightly fiddly task of removing their stones (and we must), it is a pudding of serious pleasure and inky sour-sweet juice. You will need a 1.5 litre pudding basin or 6 individual ones. Peanut Butter Fudge Pretzel Brownies. Dear Monday.

Peanut Butter Fudge Pretzel Brownies

Why must you ruin lives? You do things like fling entire pots of coffee on the floor while leaving ugly droplets on that pretty white dress and don’t even apologize. Then you take a certain someone’s keys and lock them inside while that person is outside… and the oven is on with a big fat chicken roasting in pan way too small. Not cool. Cookies and Cream Cheesecake Bars. If you asked me what my all-time favorite dessert is, the answer would most likely be cheesecake.

Cookies and Cream Cheesecake Bars

Early Summer Recipe: Apricot, Almond & Strawberry Crumble Recipes from The Kitchn. Apricot, Almond and Strawberry Crumble Serves 8 to 10, depending on portion size For the fruit filling:About 12 average-sized fresh ripe apricots2 pints strawberries3 tablespoons sugar2 tablespoons cornstarch For the topping:1 cup oats1/4 cup oat flour (rye, whole wheat or millet flour would be great here too)1/2 cup all-purpose flour3 tablespoons sugar7 almond cookies, plus 2 reserved (use cookies such as Twin Dragon Almond cookies, available here)1 teaspoon salt1/2 cup butter, melted1/2 cup slivered almonds Preheat oven to 350°F.

Early Summer Recipe: Apricot, Almond & Strawberry Crumble Recipes from The Kitchn

Recipage. Chocohotopots Recipe : Nigella Lawson : Recipes. How to cook perfect chocolate macarons. I must admit that, when my editor suggested macaroons for this column, I hoped she was talking about the sweet, coconutty kind found in every high-street bakers or, at a pinch, the crisp almond biscuits of the same name from Lorraine.

How to cook perfect chocolate macarons

Basically, anything but the impossibly pretty sort found posing in every Parisian patisserie window. While I fondly believe my Victoria sponge would have a fair chance at an averagely competitive village fete, macarons (they deserve the dignity of a fancy French name, let's face it) strike fear into my heart. They demand patience and precision – both skills that come about as naturally to me as unicycling. They're just so ... stylish. Step-by-Step Instructions for One-Ingredient Ice Cream. Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Cookies - 10 Healthy Peanut Butter Recipes - Shape Magazine - Page 10. A perfect grab-and-go breakfast, this bagelwich only requires four ingredients and comes together in a flash!

Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Cookies - 10 Healthy Peanut Butter Recipes - Shape Magazine - Page 10

Ingredients:serves 11 bagel thin, toasted2 tbsp. peanut butter1 banana, sliced½ tbsp. chia seeds Directions:Spread each slice of toasted bagel thin with 1 tbsp. peanut butter. Top peanut butter-topped bagel thin with banana slices. Sprinkle with chia seeds. Recipe provided by Peanut Butter Fingers. Recipes. Apple dumpling recipes. To have any credibility as a hard-core food anarchist, you have to like dumplings.

Apple dumpling recipes

Their lumpen appearance marks them proudly as a dish without grand status, even though today you're more likely to find them in a cool pub than a beans and chips caff. This doughy lump is ideal for soaking up the flavours around it. Add sweet dessert apples and you have an awesome pudding. Apple dumplings in brandy syrup Very good with a little creme fraiche. 125g plain flour75g rye flourFinely grated zest of a lemon2 tsp baking powder25g caster sugar25g unsalted butter1 medium dessert apple50g yoghurt1 medium egg For the syrup250g light soft brown sugar800ml water3 tsp vanilla extractCalvados or brandy, lemon juice Place the flours, zest, baking powder and sugar in a bowl, and rub in the butter. In a deep, 23cm frying pan, bring sugar, water and vanilla to a boil. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

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Tartes. Muffins. Clean Eating Slow Cooker Brownies. Clean Eating Strawberry Ice Cream. Recipage. Recipage. Recipage. Recipage. Outrageous Oreo Crunch Brownies. Now these brownies are just dangerous.

Outrageous Oreo Crunch Brownies

Banana bread recipe. These days we seem to be on an endless hunt for pillow-soft, light cakes, so it's easy to overlook the more substantial ones that aren't so sugar-rich and delicate. Cakes such as this, baked in loaf tins so they look almost like bread loaves, are often rich with grated fruit or vegetables, which helps to keep the crumb soft for days, and have a gentle sweetness that is often more comforting midmorning that the sugar rush you get from, say, a dolled-up cupcake. Bananas turns alkaline when they're very ripe and soft, so mixing in some lemon juice makes them much more acidic, which in turn helps keep the crumb on the light side. Pumpkin chocolate mud cake recipe.

Cinnamon buns recipe. The Danish cook and activist Camilla Plum is comparable to our own Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in the vigorous, passionate way she writes about food and her garden.

Cinnamon buns recipe

Her book The Scandinavian Kitchen combines foraged foods with familiar, everyday ingredients in an inspired way. Also look for Signe Johansen's Scandilicious, which is focused on modern Scandinavian cooking and baking. Here's my take on a classic. 400ml milkSeeds from 3 or 4 cardamom podsFinely grated zest of ½ lemon500g strong white flour, plus extra for shaping50g unsalted butter1 medium egg50g caster sugar1 sachet fast-action yeast1½ tsp saltOil for kneading For the filling3 Ryvita125g dark brown sugar2 tsp ground cinnamonButterBeaten egg, to finish.