Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
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Ready in under 20 minutes this chocolate chip skillet cookie recipe hits the spot when you get that craving for warm, homemade chocolate chip cookies, but you don’t want a whole batch. This is my contribution to the online recipe bank for Valentine’s Day this year. A chocolate chip skillet cookie recipe, ready in under …
Issue 18 of our bite-sized review series. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner you might be wondering how best to treat your significant other (or just yourself!). Here are a few of my favourite things I’ve been trying out lately that I think would make for a super Valentine’s Day gift. With thanks to …
In collaboration with Albert Bartlett Potatoes & Üutensil. So who else put up their Christmas tree this weekend? We usually don’t put up our tree until the 12th of December, but this year my best friend surprised us and delivered a tree to us on Saturday afternoon. She’d picked up a five foot real Christmas …
Win £30 worth of Christmas themed chocolate from Hotel Chocolat. Hotel Chocolat has become a household name ever since it opened its chocolatier doors for the first time in London in 2004. Now, with over 80 stores across the UK as well as a number of cafes and restaurants, they continue to create delicious seasonal …
Our weekly bite sized review series. The week of 10th – 16th October 2016 is National Chocolate Week, and so this week’s bite sized review series celebrates all things chocolate and wonderful! There’s a fab giveaway too to win a box of Shetland made chocolate!
Add a bit of spice to your life with these indulgent cupcakes; the perfect quick weekend bake! Bizarrely enough, the chocolate and chilli combination is a favourite with my children, especially my younger children who, if a piece of freshly ground cracked black pepper should dare to appear in their dinner lament, with great theatrical …
A review/giveaway in collaboration with the Gourmet Chocolate Pizza Co. After our family Belgium Chocolate Experience weekend we have developed quite the fondness for Belgian chocolate, so when The Gourmet Chocolate Pizza Co. asked us if we’d like to taste test one of their gourmet chocolate pizzas we jumped at the chance! The Gourmet Chocolate …
In collaboration with P&O Ferries. It’s World Chocolate Day! The day we get to celebrate all things chocolate and wonderful, so let me take this opportunity to tell you about the Belgium Chocolate Experience we had the privilege of enjoying last week. As a family we travelled, old school, via ferries and trains from our …
I made fudge! Proper fudge! This is not such a grand achievement, I know, but wait until you hear why this is such a big thing for me. I was 12 the last time I made fudge. Proper fudge, I mean, you know, fudge that has never seen a tin of condensed milk (I’ve made …
In collaboration with the RNLI – the charity that saves lives at sea. This is my husband’s most favourite cupcake recipe. They are super simple to make and never last very long in our house. I made them for my husband as a, um, well, “I’m sorry” for actually swooning over a real life bonafide …
Teaming up with My Protein – Europe’s #1 Sports Nutrition Brand Online! I do love playing with my food. I have also upped my fitness and strength training efforts this year. I’m really rather pleased with my progress – I’m at a weight I am happy with and I have never felt stronger or more …
A somewhat more healthy chocolate Easter treat made with raw cacao. Wednesdays are pudding nights in our house. This (in theory) stops the kids from asking for sweet things after every meal through the rest of the week. In theory. It doesn’t actually work like this, but I do try. Some of you might have …
In collaboration with Hotel Chocolat. I am delighted to have the opportunity to offer you, thanks to the fine folk at Hotel Chocolat, the opportunity to win this Easter season’s must-have gift bag! The Easter Goody Bag is filled with indulgent and easy-to-share sweet treats, including a Salted Caramel Slab, Raspberry Egglets, a trio of …
For when you’ve got those chocolate cravings and don’t want to break the healthy eating plan! I’m not on a diet. I don’t even like the word diet. It implies that you are denying yourself something, a restriction of enjoyment, a temporary solution to a problem. Fad diets aren’t sustainable, and they’re not a healthy …
My husband is an ectomorph, bless his 69% merino wool Smartwool socks. This means that it doesn’t matter what or how much he eats he just doesn’t put on weight. Sometimes I stare at him from the other side of the dinner table, nibbling on yet another low calorie salad, glaring at him while he, …
An Optimum ThermoCook recipe. It’s our wedding anniversary this coming weekend. Two years ago in gale-force winds my husband and I got married. It was a small ceremony with close family and friends with an overnight stay in a hotel and a lovely meal afterwards. Nothing too extravagant. It was a steampunk wedding though. (You …
The idea for these raw chocolate and clementine mini cheesecakes with a chocolate hazelnut crust has been bumping around inside my head for quite some time now, ever since I tried The Rawtarian’s raw cheesecake recipe a few months ago and was really impressed with how light and creamy the cashew based filling was after blending …
Win a Hotel Chocolat Dark Chocolate Festive Wreath RRP £22 The first time I ever tasted the delicious morsels from Hotel Chocolat was the morning of my wedding day. Leading up to Christmas 2013 the company were sending out samples of their Christmas collection, and I was delighted to have been included in the group …
aka how to salvage a failed attempt at making chocolate hazelnut spread. I like experimenting in my kitchen, I really do. Sometimes (quite a lot of the time, if I am to be honest!) it doesn’t quite go according to plan. I had a notion to make some homemade chocolate hazelnut spread recently. Ok, if …
Chocolate, peanut and marshmallow swirl cupcakes! Give me s’more! Did you ever enjoy s’mores as a child? Picture it, an open camp fire, two graham crackers smeared with peanut butter, chocolate chips pressed into the sticky peanut butter so that there were no gaps at all, two or three giant marshmallows stuck on the top …
