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3 Easy Home Made Gifts

Home made gifts are special and perfect for that person who has everything. Here's a few for you to try.   Recipes for home made gifts in this video: Meringues Recipe (maes 17 large meringues) 6 egg whites 300g (10.58 ounces) sugar pinch cream of tar tar or a squeeze of lemon juice Place all the ingredients on a bowl and whip on ... »

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Cherry Chocolate Dessert

  Happy New Year Everyone! Let's hope 2021 sees covid come under control in all countries. No more second and third and fourth waves, I think we've all had enough of lock-downs to last a life time. Below is a lovely simple cherry chocolate dessert for you using fresh cherries. ... »

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Holographic Chocolate

There are so many potential uses shiny holographic chocolate. I love the way the colours change and shift as you move it in the light or walk past it. No food colouring is needed for this effect. Through experimenting I found that the diffraction sheet needs to be washed with warm soapy water and ... »

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Billionaires Soft Serve Ice Cream Recipe

  Is this soft serve worth £99? Does it really take four hours to make one? The Billionaires Soft Serve, sold at Selfridges in London has a price tag that is surely set to attract news stories from journalists getting a freebie rather than customers. But if you don't want to part-take ... »

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Chocolate Balloon Dog

This is one of those projects that was much easier in my head than in reality. However, now that I have the technique figured out, you should be able to recreate your own chocolate balloon dog. Just be prepared for some patience as there is a fair bit of repetition involved in ... »

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Easter Cake Recipe

Happy Easter Everyone! I love setting up Easter egg hunts for my boys, I try to make them harder each year the older they get. There are clues leading to each new location. The back of the clue says how many there are to be found there so they can keep hunting until ... »

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Decadent Tall Chocolate Mousse Cake with salted Caramel Drip

A decadent chocolate cake recipe with crunchy choc crumb and velvety smooth chocolate mousse between the layers. Topped with salted caramel drip and toasted Italian meringue.  I had lots of fun filming this vr video, but I know many of you don't like virtual reality so I also filmed the whole thing again as ... »

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Sculpting a 3D head out of modelling chocolate

Sculpting a 3D head to look like a specific real person is hard. This is not something I'd recommend a beginner cake decorator should do, unless it is for fun or  for a friend who won't be insulted if they look a bit wonky. Making a cartoon or app characters is definitely much easier than ... »

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Raspberry and White Chocolate Muffins

  This is the recipe that started it all. Friends always ask me for my dessert recipes. But I have written out this raspberry white chocolate chip muffin recipe so many times that is deserved a video of its own. I used to make these for our church's cafe. ... »

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Coconut Dessert Recipe

  This dessert looks like a real coconut but in fact it has a chocolate husk filled with coconut cream mousse and fresh fruit. The servings are rather large if you make them the size of a real coconut, so you'd want to share them between two or make them smaller for individual serves. To ... »

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Laptop Cake

 This week I'm making a desk cake complete with a cute little laptop, deep enders book, Make It A Great Week mug, pencils and of course a camera. Watch to the end of the video to see how you can enter to WIN your very own laptop or camera. COMPETITION has now closed. Thank you ... »

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Apple Shaped Dessert

    I've seen chefs make apple shaped desserts but they all use expensive apple-shaped silicone molds. If you want to make these at home the expense for the mold can't really be justified. So my challenge today is to find a way to make apple shaped desserts without using a mold. How To ... »

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Prank Chocolate Truffles

Filming this video was so much fun. Make your own prank chocolate truffles and watch the reactions of your friends as they eat them. With thanks to Draw with Jazza, Jayden Rodrigues and Jamie for being such good sports and eating the whole box. Chilli V Raspberry Chocolate Truffles To make raspberry chocolate truffles filling ... »

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Triple Chocolate Spiral Dessert

  The triple chocolate spiral dessert may look complicated but is actually quite easy to pull off. Make this if you have a chocolate lover coming over for dinner and you'll have a friend for life. Last week I was at YouTube creator summit which is an invite only conference for YouTubers to ... »

Triple Chocolate Banana Caramel Dessert Recipe

Triple Chocolate Banana Caramel Dessert Recipe

  Today we are making a dessert with a choc chip base, covered with a banana caramel, a sinfully rich baked chocolate ganache all topped with a gooey chocolate coffee cremeux. coffee cremeux recipe 470g (16.58 ounces) chocolate, broken into pieces in a large bowl 120g (4.23 ounces) or 7 egg yolks 60g (2.12 ounces) sugar 1 tsp ground coffee 500mL (16.91 fluid ounces) or 2 cups cream 2 ... »

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Moana Cake

  The Moana movie came out a while ago now but there have been lots of requests for a cake. So to help out the mums who have to make a Mona birthday cake I thought I'd make a fondant free version with chocolate flowers. To make this Moana cake you will need: Double quantity of ... »

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3D Donut Cake

  Click here to check out the NEW Merch   To celebrate the launch of my new merch I have made a 3D standing up donut cake with donut flavored frosting. This week has been a bit of a stressful one for me, filled with many specialist doctors appointments. Our paeditrician was ... »

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Giant Double Caramel Magnum Ego Ice Cream

What better way to celebrate World Chocolate Day than by recreating a huge version of this delicious chocolate-coated caramel Magnum, the most popular ice cream on Earth!   To make this GIANT double caramel Magnum Ego you will need 600g (21.16 ounces) white chocolate 2 cake support sticks 10L (2.64 gallons) vanilla ice-cream 1.8kg (3.97 pounds) milk chocolate 440g (15.52 ounces) ice magic or ... »

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Fathers Day Gift Idea : Chocolate Tools

  It is not Father's Day here in Australia until September 3 but it is coming up very soon on June 18 for the USA, UK and many other countries. The requests for a fun and easy Fathers day gift idea have been flooding in so I put my thinking cap on. Here ... »

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Chocolate Swirls and Splashes

  It's time to have some fun with chocolate swirls and splashes. Capturing the fluid motion of liquids in solid form always looks fascinating. It's like freezing a moment in time.   Cake Pop Swirls You can make cake pops from scratch using this recipe or this one or use cake scraps as below 2 cups cake ... »

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Sarsaparilla Root Beer Birthday Cake

  The best kind of birthday cakes are ones that are fully customized to the birthday boy/girl. My kids can dream up whatever they'd like in a birthday cake. This year Matthew came up with an interesting combination of flavors and amazingly it all worked together. As one teen at the party ... »

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10 best easy oreo recipes

  Oreos, who doesn't love them? The lady at the checkout looked at me strangely when I bought an extraordinarily large supply of Oreos for this week's recipes. What followed was LOTS of fun testing a few old recipes and designing delicious NEW ones just for YOU 🙂 The two-ingredient ... »

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Minecraft slime balls, grass blocks and TNT cake

 This week my baby turned six years old! He is at school, losing his baby teeth and learning to read. My how he has grown. The week he was born I wrote my very first recipe on this website, and I have not missed a Friday since then. Just as Jedd has changed, so ... »

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Ballerina Cake

Pretty ballerina cake recipe for all those girls who train hard so they can dance gracefully and make it look easy.   To make this ballerina cake you will need: (serves 20) Ballerina cake template   1 and a 1/2 x the fluffy sponge cake recipe baked in 12 cupcake cases and two 8" round cake tins. One quantity ... »

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Beauty and the Beast Belle Cake

  I watched the old Disney cartoon version of Beauty and the Beast last night. I love that it doesn't follow the traditional 'princess model'. Belle is well read, not obsessed with looks, loves her dad and is willing to lay down her own freedom to rescue him. "Greater love has ... »

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