Nutty Chocolate Cake

I must admit that I do not have a sweet tooth so much so that mostly all of the baking in the house is done by my girlfriend. With this realisation I set about trying to replicate one of her favourite cake recipes and a favourite with all whenever it is baked. A Chocolate & Nut Cake.

The key to success here is to remember to get as much air into your mixture when you are folding in the ingredients. Also remember to grease your baking tin well. For best results it is best to leave overnight in a fridge so the cake will set completely

Prepare yourself for some serious Chocolate & Nut overload.....

Pavlova

Day 10
Paraguay 2 Slovakia 0
New Zealand 1 Italy 1
Brazil 3 Ivory Coast 0

World Cup Kitchen is New Zealand’s favourite: Pavlova
 

I absolutely love Pavlova, the crisp sweet meringue with sweetened cream and fresh fruit with a drizzle of warm caramel on top – it is absolutely delicious and is actually not as hard to make as you might think.

Banana Fritters

We had this for a dessert when I was in Bali at New Years. When I came back, I made it top priority to find a good recipe.

Like a pancake batter the principle is the same and also very easy to get good results.

A pancake batter is a consistency of equal parts flour (plain) and milk (1 cup) with 1 egg, with a fritter it is a sweetened thicker batter so it is 1 cup flour (self-raising) to ½ cup milk with an egg with 2 table spoons of sugar.

Apple Crumble - Early 90s style

My passion with cooking, recipes and food all started with a weighing scales and a very dodgy apron. Thinking about as to the when and how I really don’t know but I am guessing it was starting with Pancake Tuesday when you would try your best to eat as many pancakes as you could and of course eventually you were allowed to make your own. This then moved onto a baking obsession as a kid. For me at the time I was either outside playing football or inside baking.