This would make a great Valentines/Galentines day cake if that sorta thing floats your boat. I personally am more a fan of telling Bae he is great everyday than restricting it to just one day a year. But hey if someone delivered me a cute floral cake this Sunday I wouldn't complain.
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Dulce De Leche Ice Cream
Last September I thought it would be a great idea to run around South America for a bit. It was.
The other day Mum mentioned that it had looked like I was back to my pre-trip weight. Double edged compliment right there. To be fair though I am not surprised I packed it on in the three weeks I was away. My diet consisted of white bread, meat, dulce de leche and cachaca. Oh and ice cream! All the dulce de leche ice cream I could find. It was glorious, man it seemed in each town or city the ice cream was better than the last.
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Dylan's Risotto (the best risotto of my life)
A young man made me food. Not just any food either, my favourite food. I was made the most delicious risotto of my life. To top it all off the man making it has the most excellent face I've ever seen as well. So much win in one go.
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Banana, Peanut Butter and Salted Caramel Ice Cream
I went through one of the freezers yesterday and threw out two supermarket bags of freezer burnt food and swept out a lot of rogue peas in order to make room for this tub. I've made three tubs in a week. That is a litre and a half of cream in a week and 15 eggs just on ice cream alone!
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Honey, Mascarpone and Gingernut Ice Cream
Even though my flat has three freezers in it I am still rapidly running out of freezer space. The novelty of my ice cream churner has not yet worn off. This week I tried my hand at making the gingernut ice cream I had always promised to make my friend Sophie (who loves gingernuts).
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Lemon Curd and Raspberry Ice Cream
Sometimes when I feel average about myself I go and make a tub of ice cream and then I remember how great I am. This ice cream is the tits. Soz Dad I just said tits on the internet.
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Summer Lemonade
I love how the word glut is used to describe the crop from an overladen fruit tree. We raided Auntie Rachel's lemon tree and so once again we have a similar scenario one to one of my favourite books as a kid, Jam by Margaret Mahy. Mr Castle's plum tree is so full of plums that he fills every vessel in the house (from vases to tea cups) with plum jam. This is what is is like when we get an influx of lemons. Lemon curd on toast, lemon cake and now that summer is here we lemonade syrup has been added to the mix
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Dark Chocolate Pretzel Cake
This cake would be a good one to make last minute to take to a barbecue this summer. All you need is a couple of hours lead time, four-ish ingredients, almost zero skill and maybe a few scoops of ice cream to serve.
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Peanut Butter and Bacon Dog Biscuits
So I made some dog biscuits to take with me on a Tinder date. It’s a bit of a long story but it involves a human male who I had been talking to for months and months and his furry friend who is less than chipper at the moment.
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Nana Huey's Christmas Cake
Nana always used to make the Christmas cake. She would make at least two mighty great slabs of it, halve them and gift each of her children one of those halves. It has been a few years since she has made cakes. Her memory started getting a little shady and being a woman without an Iphone timer strapped to her being at all times, she tended to overcook them somewhat...
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