Showing posts with label Simply Nigella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simply Nigella. Show all posts

Friday, 12 February 2016

Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake


A fabulous chocolate cake from Simply Nigella by Nigella Lawson. It is incidentally vegan, but you could never tell as it is just so delicious.
I say you could never tell, because I spent a few years being gluten intoletant, and boy,  you could certainly tell if something was gulten free as more often than not it would turn out to be much less than was hoped for.   Things have moved on though, as this cake clearly shows.  It’s expensive to make, and the icing was a bit tricky I found (separated and needed beating back together), but still completely worth it.  One to go into the repertoire. :)

Sunday, 7 February 2016

Buckwheat Triple Chocolate Cookies


This weekend's bake was from one of my favourite books of 2015, Simply Nigella by Nigella Lawson.  These cookies are sort of like brownies in cookie form, or maybe a cross between the two is more accurate.  Anyhow they are dark and delicious, not too sweet and they have THE most fabulous tasting cookie dough! Though, if you are worried about the raw egg in the cookie dough, just wait for the actual baked cookies!

Nigella made them on her Simply Nigella Christmas special episode, and they just looked so good, I had to give them a go, even if it is now February. It's still winter, so I'm reckoning that still counts. :)
 
If you don't have the book, the recipe is online here at Nigella.com