Is there anything better than chocolate on chocolate? In my opinion, no. Quite often when I’m baking I have a little chocolate left over, from cake decorations and the like, so I pour it into some little moulds and pop them in the fridge for a rainy day. Luckily, as I live in London, said rainy days are pretty frequent.
There I am playing around with baby H making cookies and testing a new recipe and I think to myself hell, let’s fill these cookies with chocolate. I asked baby H for her much respected council. She whole heartedly agreed that more chocolate could only be a good thing. Side note: unless you are the parent who has to clean up your child after they eat these, and for that I apologise in advance.
So here we go, these cookies are so soft they’re almost a cross between a brownie and a cookie and delicious they most certainly are too. Let them cool from the oven and the chocolate will ooze out beautifully, or pop them in the fridge after cooling if you prefer your chocolate centres to be solid. Or try a bit of both perhaps?
For the chocolate
- 6 tbsp coconut oil, melted
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- 3 tbsp cacao powder
- 3 tbsp cashew butter
For the cookies
- 1 1/2 cups oat flour
- 1/2 cup cacao powder
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- Pinch of Himalayan salt
- 6 tbsp coconut oil, melted
- 6 tbsp cashew butter
Nothing beats the comfort of banana bread, fresh out the oven and all lovely and warm, smothered with something delicious on top. I’m a big lover of banoffee, so it seemed only natural for me to create a banana bread recipe with a little caramel twist. I’d also just discovered the banoffee almond yogurt made by the lovely people at Nush Foods (which sadly they don’t make anymore but all their other flavours are equally as amazing), so it seemed like a match made in banana heaven. Just call me Yentyl. 
It seems you lot are custard lovers. When I did a little shout out recently asking what things people would like me to ‘healthify’, custard tarts and custard creams were up there. It got me thinking, and off I daydreamed down memory lane remembering all the custard-covered desserts I consumed in my youth. 
Mint + chocolate really is a match made in heaven. Whilst the latter is indulgent, rich, warm and intense, the former is light, refreshing and cool. So it makes sense therefore that by the laws of attraction these two flavours make a very happy pairing.
