Category: chocolate
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Chocolate Mousse Igloo
This chocolate mousse igloo would be the ideal dessert to make with young children, but perhaps not the most sophisticated dessert to serve your adult guests. I decided to make this recipe after seeing a photo for it in one of the Kraft Kitchens magazines, but even before I began the ingredient list made me…
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Boston Cream Cupcakes
I was inspired to make these cupcakes after seeing a variation of them in Martha Stewart’s cupcakes book I am always writing about. I had my sister-in-law over for lunch as I wanted to indulge her request for cupcakes with dulce de leche, which I’ve used as a filling before. I wanted to try…
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Dorie Greenspan’s Nutella Tartine
Where a North American after-school snack might be a glass of milk and cookies, the French goûter is often a pain au chocolat. Sometimes, Dorie Greenspan says in her new cookbook “Around My French Table” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) it might even be an open-faced chocolate sandwich. This may seem ridiculous to Canadians, and Americans, but…
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Nigella’s chocolate banana muffins
This recipe comes to us from Nigella’s latest behemoth cookbook “Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home,” which I will be reviewing in short order so stay tuned. In the meantime, though, this was one of the first recipes I marked after leafing through the book at a galloping pace. I leave for…
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Nigella’s chocolate raspberry pavlova
I made this pavlova on an extraordinarily hot and humid morning. It was also the same day as my son’s first birthday. For some reason, I thought I wouldn’t have enough desserts or the 20-odd guests, even though there was birthday cake, two huge fruit platters, watermelon pops, chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches, pecan…
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Chocolate-dipped marshmallows
I made these for a sweet table when I had some company over, and I knew there would be pint-sized guests who might avoid the pecan pie or fruit platter. But I started second-guessing myself pretty much as soon as I started dipping the marshmallows into the semi-sweet chocolate. Would this seem cheesy? Amateur? In…
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Chocolate almond crackle
High off my success at making hazelnut brittle with my trusty new candy thermometer, I decided to try my hand at chocolate almond crackle. This recipe had a few things going for it: It was in a cookbook called “No Time to Cook,” it was written by the amazing Donna Hay, and it was…
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Clean-out-the-pantry chocolate clusters
I have started to recycle – really recycle, not just when people are looking. I have started to collect soiled napkins and used coffee filters for the compost collection. I have started to rifle through my fridge to use up any vegetables near their expiry date and, for the first time ever, I’ve started…
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SoNo’s classic chocolate mousse
Good chocolate mousse is rare. At its best, it is delicate, intensely flavoured, and light on your tongue. At its worst, it’s nothing more than stodgy chocolate pudding from a box. Sometimes, it falls somewhere in between.Like this recipe for classic chocolate mousse that comes from “The SoNo Baking Company Cookbook,” which I’ve already…
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Coconut Chocolate Chip Bars
This is the first recipe I tried from the new “The SoNo Baking Company Cookbook” and it’s a variation on the traditional magic cookie bar. According to the cookbook (read my review here), the recipe “features two distinct layers: the base, which consists of a brown sugar shortbread-like cookie crust, and the top layer,…