So I’m a big fan of all the raw balls, but covered in chocolate they’re even better! These have got me through this year, and they get devoured so quickly in our house!
The mixture of dates, oats and cashews makes for the gooiest cookie dough batter, and the chocolate coating is just the icing on the cake!
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Makes one 8” cake
For the frosting
Add the ground almonds, buckwheat flour, cacao powder and coconut sugar to a bowl and mix well.
In another bowl, add the oat milk, peanut butter and pumpkin purée and stir until combined. Then add in the orange zest and stir again, before folding this mixture into the dry ingredients.
Spoon into an 8” cake tin or mould and bake at 180C for 20 minutes. If you have leftover pumpkin seeds too, wash them in a colander, then dry them off with a kitchen towel and add these to a baking tray with a drizzle of olive oil and roast these for around 10-12 minutes, once the cake has finished baking. Allow the cake to cool before adding the frosting.
For the frosting, simply add the ingredients into a bowl and stir well until smooth. Spoon this on top of the cake, sprinkle with any pumpkin seeds and serve!
Love, Mrs H xx
We always have an abundance of blueberries in the house as baby H absolutely adores them. She used to call them ‘bwees’ and the name has stuck. It’s not uncommon for Mr H or I to text each other to ‘pick up some more bwees’ on the other one’s way home, because lord have mercy should we run out.
So we err on the side of caution but as you know I HATE wasting food so when we’ve too many and they’re heading towards the wrong side of their best before date I get my bake on so we don’t have to chuck them. I know I could freeze them FYI, but any excuse to bake! Continue reading
These cookies are possible the best I have ever ever made. Mr H said they tasted just like a regular cookie (you know, the ones packed with butter and gluten and all the stuff I don’t eat) so that was a real win! He certainly never lies when it comes to whether he likes my bakes or not as he’s got no incentive to risk me baking something again that he pretended to like the first time!
Anyway, I can’t wait for you to try these cookies. They’re just the right amount of sweet, gooey, crunchy, chocolatey and pretty perfect if I do say so myself. I can’t wait to know what you think!
In a large bowl, mix together the coconut sugar, salt, and coconut oil until combined. Add in in the almond milk, peanut butter and vanilla, until you have a smooth batter, then stir in the flour mix. Finally, stir in the chocolate chunks and split the dough into around ten even sized balls.
Preheat your oven to 180C and place the balls on a lined baking tray, being sure to space them out so they have room to spread. Bake for 10-12 minutes then leave to cool completely before scoffing!
Love, Mrs H xx
Hazelnut and chocolate are definitely one of my favourite combinations. Probably because it takes me back to that nostalgic time when on a Friday night I used to stay over at my grandparents house after Shabbat dinner. In the morning it wasn’t the usual choice of weetabix or bran flakes for breakfast, anything was on offer. So Nutella on toast it usually was (or if they’d run out of Nutella my grandma would melt Dairy Milk and use that instead!) and the fact that it was our little secret made it even more delicious.
Once upon a time, a twenty something accountess living in a cute but small flat in Chalk Farm, happened upon a recipe during some recipe testing (when she probably should have been doing her day job) that she thought was possibly the best thing ever. She gave some to her new husband, and he agreed. Despite wanting to try and create other new recipes, this recipe was so good that she had to always have a batch of it in the freezer. Every week she made a batch of 16 squares. But soon they outgrew it, and two batches a week were necessary. On their moving day to their newly purchased family home, she cut them each a huge slab of it, to keep them going throughout the morning and as a cheers of sorts to their new home. Continue reading
Pecans for me epitomise autumn, but I’m not sure why. Apparently they are indeed harvested in the autumn months, so it must be a tradition thing, as unlike fresh local produce you can still get them all year round. It’s funny as it’s not like any other nuts evoke such seasonal feelings, but I won’t dwell on that for too much longer.
Coffee and chocolate. A pairing of dreams. I used to be a total coffee addict; I’d have three skinny lattes a day (minimum) and thought I couldn’t function without it. After going cold tofu (that’s the vegan version of cold turkey) I now can’t drink even one coffee without it sending me totally jittery and loop the loop loopy. Continue reading
Lots of restaurants serve brownies with a side of ice cream, so I figured why not combine the two? These are the perfect treat for a hot day, and you can cut them into little squares and enjoy straight from the freezer whenever you feel like a little pick me up! Continue reading
One problem with both myself and my taste testing entourage being serious, hardcore chocolate addicts is that sometimes it can be hard to get unbiased feedback on my non-chocolatey recipes. It’s almost as if they’re slightly discriminated against. So when I decided to leave the cacao powder in the cupboard and whip up some blondies instead of brownies I wasn’t sure what kind of backlash I might face. Continue reading
