I succumbed and brushed aside all my worries about overusing food colour. I’m so glad I did. The last time I tried making red velvet cake and cupcakes, I was paranoid about using too much red food colour and therefore wound up with tasty, but only ‘reddish’ velvet. I also used a recipe that had…
Amarula Chocolate Truffles
I always thought there was a bit of a science to making truffles. They’re one of those super-delicate looking things that you just don’t expect to be bits of chocolate rolled between your hands. But, that’s all they are. I did look like a toddler who’d just discovered wet mud by the time I was…
Seriously Fudgy Brownies
When I first started off with this baking thing, my brownies turned out cakey. Not bad to taste, but not fudgy and chewy like a brownie should be, you know? And that just wasn’t acceptable. Brownies should be moist and fudgy, with perfectly crackly tops. A really good brownie doesn’t need vanilla ice-cream or chocolate…
Mud Cake Cupcakes
My mom has two legendary recipe books. One was a notebook she used in college, but now has scribbled recipes for almost everything under the sun. The other is a large sketchbook, whose beautiful pages are filled with cutouts of yet more recipes from magazines and newspapers of all kinds. Between my mom, my sister…
Nutella Stuffed Cinnamon Muffins
I love cinnamon. I love Nutella. And I love muffins. So really, there was no reason to not put the three of them together. This particular adventure started with me wanting to make cinnamon donuts. And then I felt like Nutella cupcakes. Which turned into Nutella muffins with cinnamon-sugar thanks to this recipe. They’re fun…