Category Archives: Dessert Recipes

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Chocolate Truffles Recipe

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Is there a better gift than home made chocolate truffles? They cost you an arm and a leg at the chocolatiers and yet you can make them yourself for a fraction of the cost. You will need your chosen truffle … Continue reading

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Raspberry Creme Brûlée Recipe

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Tap your spoon onto the hard caramelized sugar crust and break into the thick creamy brulee that awaits. Dive deeper to find raspberry sauce that awakens the tastebuds with a zing leaving you with a thirst for more. Creme Brulee … Continue reading

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Rock Candy Recipe How To Make Large Sugar Crystals

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Large sugar crystals on lollipop sticks, otherwise known as rock candy is a fun experiment to make at home with the kids.   You don’t need many ingredients but you will need some patience as they take a few days … Continue reading

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Churros Recipe with Chocolate

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Enjoy a pot of pure melted chocolate next to cinnamon and sugar coated churros.  This churros recipe shows you how to make curly churros and the straight ones just like you find at san churros cafe. Churros Recipe Ingredients 250ml … Continue reading

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Valentine’s Day Heart Shaped Chocolate Box

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Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary. Seventeen wonderful and happy years. Some of our favourite memories together are the big moments like holding each of our newborn sons for the first time, trips to New York and Italy and big events … Continue reading

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Macaron Ice Cream Sandwich Recipe

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Yummm! What more can I say, these were good… make some! To make the macarons follow the easy macaron recipe and colour however you like.  If you have never made macarons before make sure you also read the macaron FAQ … Continue reading

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Pavlova Recipe Happy Australia Day

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Pavlova or ‘pav’ as we call it in Australia is easy to make, if you have never had one before go ahead and try it you will fall in love with this dessert. Pavlova Meringue Ingredients 8 egg whites (make … Continue reading

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Chocolate Gelato Recipe

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This is a deliciously rich chocolate gelato that you can make at home even if you do not have an ice cream machine. Gelato is a bit different to ice cream in that it does not use cream, so is … Continue reading

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Nougat Recipe

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This nougat is the hard chewy variety, great for Christmas gifts. If you add lots of dried fruit and leave it a few days it will soften a little and not be such a jawbreaker, if you like hard nougat … Continue reading

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Chocolate Cake Recipe

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This is a beautiful moist and delicious chocolate cake with the crunch of toasted pistachios and almonds on the side topped off with rich ganache and chocolate flowers. Perfect for Christmas or any other special gathering. Prep time: 15 min … Continue reading

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Giant Oreo No Bake Cheesecake Recipe

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This oreo no bake cheesecake tastes so good you have to try it. Decorating it like an oreo is optional but makes it a fun dessert to serve to your guests. Cookie Dough for details(this will make more dough than … Continue reading

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How to Make a Chocolate Box

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Chocolate boxes can be used as gifts filled with strawberries or sweet treets like chocolate truffles or fudge. Chocolate Box Instructions Step 1. Cut out the sides and lid of your box out of plastic. The plastic needs tobe thin … Continue reading

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Chocolate Decorations using Transfer Sheets

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Chocolate transfer sheets allow you to add flair to your desserts. With plenty of patterns to choose from you are bound to find something that suits your style or event. The pattern is made out of coloured cocoa butter on … Continue reading

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Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe

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This chocolate cheesecake is the first recipe that I ever wrote out, complete with spelling mistakes like ‘wisk the egg whites’ and ‘chill untill set’.  I had been to a neighbours house for dinner when I was about 7 years … Continue reading

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Meringue Cake Recipe

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Meringue cake is a pavlova that is dressed up for the ball.  It’s proper name is a Spanish Wind Torte and as a child I used to admire the photo of it that adorned the front of Time-Life Foods of … Continue reading

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Chocolate Orange Macarons Macaroons Recipe

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It seems people either love or hate the combination of orange and chocolate, I fall into the love category with this one. If it is not your cup of tea try flavouring the cream with something different like licorice, mint … Continue reading

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Nut Free Macaron Recipe | substitute almond flour

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Nut Free Macaron Recipe | substitute almond flour This is a golden macaron. It is special because it contains no nuts, that’s right not a hint of almond meal or any other ground nuts or seeds. Many people have nut … Continue reading

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Chocolate Cream Recipe Cremeux Recette

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chocolate cream recipe Chocolate cremeux or chocolate cream is a versatile element that you can use in a range of desserts. It is not as sweet as ganache but is richer than a mousse. In the words of one of … Continue reading

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Best Chocolate Cream Cake Recipe

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Best Chocolate Cream Cake   YUMMM! Crispy chocolate base topped with a hazelnut dacquoise, chocolate cremeux, chocolate rectangles and whipped milk chocolate. Every now and then you find a dessert that is just perfect, it looks amazing, tastes divine, has … Continue reading

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How to Make Chocolate Bowls

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In this post I will show you how to make seven chocolate bowls using 3 different techniques – balloons, ice and lined containers. You will need to use chocolate melts or tempered chocolate to make these, if you are not … Continue reading

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How To Cook That now has a shop

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Just letting you all know that howtocookthat now has a shop, currently selling… DIGITAL DOWNLOADS like my little book of frostings, ginger bread house plans and party printables. After payment pdf file will be available for download. My Little Book … Continue reading

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Adriano Zumbo Cook Book & Dessert Train Review

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The Adriano Zumbo cookbook ‘Zumbo’ is filled with all the sweetest things that you could imagine from ‘salted butter popcorn zumabrons’ (macarons) to ‘gibbo & zumb’s australian adventure’, my rendition is pictured above.  But is it too complicated to be … Continue reading

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Chocolate Ginger Sphericals – Molecular Gastronomy

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Chocolate sphericals are like an explosion of melted chocolate in your mouth.  After many failed experiments I have finally developed a recipe that not only works but tastes divine.  You have got to try these. Molecular Gastronomy Kits are available … Continue reading

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Easy French Macaron Recipe (Macaroons)

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I am often asked why have my macarons failed?! Why are there no feet?! Why have the macaron shells cracked? And which recipe do you use for your macarons? So here it is… french macaron recipe and troubleshooting. On a … Continue reading

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My Babies 1st Birthday Cake – the inside of the entremet cake

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My youngest is now a one year old, running around the house opening draws and pulling things out of the pantry cupboard.  I wanted his first cake to be special – not just in looks but in taste.  He had … Continue reading

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