So, did you join in the great Easter Egg rush set off by the stories last week that chocolate could prevent millions of heart attacks and strokes? Reports that Easter eggs “may be healthy” and even that “ chocolate ever [...]
Week 1 I've got a dirty little secret - I am a slave to sugar. I don't just want chocolate, I need it. If my secret stash is dry, I raid the kids' treats. But when my six-year-old announces he's giving it up for Lent [...]
So confident was I of making Sunday’s Chocolate cake for Jonathan’s birthday cake that of course I didn’t bother to do a trial run. Even though there were at least a dozen people coming to share our harvest birthday din [...]
There are many different types of chocolate, which can be broadly classified as white chocolate, milk chocolate and dark chocolate, depending on the relative proportions of cocoa and milk they contain. White chocolate contains milk b [...]
Ingredients: 7 ounces 70% chocolate, chopped 7 ounces butter, softened 4 x eggs, separated 1 cup sugar Directions: 1. Heat the oven to 375°F/190°C. Line with parchment, grease, and flour an 8-inch/22 [...]
The Easter Bunny might lower your chances of having a heart problem. According to a new study, small doses of chocolate every day could decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke by nearly 40 percent. German researchers [...]
Back in the early 1980s, dining out with our mother and her friends meant that every restaurant meal ended with chocolate decadence ― a dark brown heap of cake, ice cream, fudge, and fat. We weren't quite sure what "decade [...]
Butter (for the pan) 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped or 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips 1 1/4 cups (2 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut up 3/4 cup brewed st [...]
Public Relations Guru Matthew Freud, no relation to the Lloyd Freud family of West Wickham, took the old Ukrainian phrase 'Let them eat chocolate cake' quite literally. The two British chaps were at London's Annabel's Nig [...]
Adapted from Bon Appetit to fit a bundt pan, this chocolate cake has a surprise: My Goodness, My Guinness. It can be topped with homemade chocolate ganache, chocolate icing, or ice cream. • 1 cup stout (such [...]
The chocolate-covered dried wine grapes recently introduced at Bissinger’s — a centuries-old confectioner that started in Paris and opened in St. Louis in 1927 — are lushly delicious and excellent to nibble after dinner [...]
Why bake up one kind of chocolate chip cookie when you can bake two distinctively different chocolate chip cookies at the same time? I found two great sounding chocolate chip cookie recipes and really wanted to try each, but one recipe r [...]
Extraordinary: remarkable, exceptional, amazing, astonishing. Does this restaurant live up to the hype of such a moniker? Although this Penguin has have lived in San Diego for years and has heard wonderful things about Extraor [...]
Ingredients 500g good quality vanilla ice cream 12 After Eight mints, coarsely chopped 55g crystallised stem ginger, chopped 100g meringue shells, slightly broken To serve: grated dark chocolate Method [...]