Archive for September 2009
Chocolate Trifle
Posted by: realistic bird on: September 24, 2009
I had some left over chocolate cake so I decided to make a quick chocolate trifle.
Ingredients:
75g-100g dark chocolate, melted
400g can sweetened condensed milk
300ml whipping cream
Chocolate cake (any you prefer, ready made, box mix, or made from scratch)
Grated chocolate
Method:
1) Whisk in the melted chocolate to the condensed milk. I recommend you taste it to see its [...]
Atayef bi ashta (cream pancakes)
Posted by: realistic bird on: September 21, 2009
I posted about this Arabic dessert before when I did them with cheese. These are filled with ashta or cream instead. You can fill them with fresh ashta that you can buy from an Arabic dessert store if there is one in your region. If you can’t get fresh ashta then you can fill them with [...]
Lemon Delicious
Posted by: realistic bird on: September 14, 2009
This is the oddest dessert I’ve made. It is has a unique texture. The first layer is spongy cake like, the second creamy mousse like and the last very lemony syrup. When you remove the cake from the oven it might be puffed up as the second picture but it will go down like the [...]
Hazelnut and peanut Crocant
Posted by: realistic bird on: September 11, 2009
These arabic sweets are my favorite things to eat (be careful about your teeth though!) for they are just sweet and contain a good amount of nuts. I previously put the recipe for crocant sesame. The above picture also contains crocant with pistachios and almonds.
Bindqiyeh (Hazelnut Crocant)
Serves: 25
Ingredients:
1kg of roasted hazelnuts
Juice of one lemon
4 cups [...]
Mississippi Mud Cake
Posted by: realistic bird on: September 5, 2009
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This cake is wonderful with ice-cream (I ate it with chocolate chip mint ice-cream) and I recommend eating it slightly warm.
Serves: 8-10
Ingredients:
225g plain flour
1/8 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
350ml strong brewed coffee
150g unsweetened chocolate
225g butter or margarine
400g caster sugar
2 eggs, at room temperature
11/2 tsp vanilla essence
Method:
1) Preheat the oven to 140C/275F/Gas1.
2) Sift the flour, salt, and [...]
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