Not a personal subscriber to the Christian concept of Easter. Full of admiration for those who can give up chocolate for Lent. So, have joined them in a day of gorging on chocolate for no other reason than my love for it. Happy Chocolate Sunday!
Craved some biscuits to go with our after-dinner tea, and decided to try out a Green and Black’s inspired shortbread recipe. I used my now favourite shortbread proportions (6-4-2), and made two lots: one regular plus a dash of ground cinnamon and quick grate of nutmeg, and the other with 4 1/2 oz flour plus 1 1/2 oz cocoa powder. To get the marbled effect, you can either:
I used the latter method, sprinkled with ~60g of roughly chopped dark chocolate. Rolled it up like a swiss roll, sliced into 1cm pieces, and baked at 150degC for ~20 min (used a fan oven; for conventional ovens, add 5 min).
The biscuits don’t look pretty, but they sure taste good. Especially straight out of the oven… If I go to the effort of trying this again, I think I’ll use a bit more butter, as the shortbread came out a bit too floury and the two doughs didn’t stick to each other as well as I’d have liked.
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| Ingredients | Mystery shot | Cocoa and regular dough | The end result |
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Another super easy G&B recipe. Yum! Decided to split the 2lb recipe so we could bring some small cakes with us to Skye. Can’t walk very far without the occasional carbohydrate snack to sustain us. The 1lb loaf took 35min at 180degC (150degC in my fan oven), and the 6 little loaves took about 25min. End result out of the 1lb corrugated cardboard “tin”:
Scoffalophagus, if I may say so meself. It’s quite tangy, with a bitter bite, and extraordinarily moist. Yum. Paired with a plain ice cream, it makes for a really scrummy dessert.
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Recipe originates from Nigella Lawson, courtesy of G&B’s chocolate recipe book.
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