chocolate delice

Finally had some time to make Eamon Sullivan's 10/10 chocolate delice (with salted caramel). It may seem like a lot of components but they were pretty straight forward. I didn't make the salted caramel but I thought the result was quite good without it.

I recommend halving the biscuit because you don't need that much. Or you can just re-rolled the dough and made biscuits like I did.

Before making it, just make sure to read the recipe thoroughly a couple of times. 

Check out Eamon Sullivan's blog post for step-by-step instructions and photos.

cocoa power

I'm starting to think if the food tech teachers at high school adapted their nut & crunch brownies from Alice Medrich's best cocoa brownies recipe because the ingredients are almost the same. Only the school one is more cake like. Taste and texture wise these were more like the modified school recipe.

I found the recipe on Patricia's Baby Hedgehogs, which she adapted from Hannah's honey & jam.

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My adaptions:

Roast two handfuls of nuts (mixture of walnuts, pecans & hazelnuts) at 150 degrees for 10 minutes, stirring half way. Cool and chop half of them into small pieces. Stir the chopped nuts & 40g of chopped dark chocolate into the mixture after you stir in the flour and cocoa powder.

When you put the mixture into the baking pan, top with remaining nuts & 40g of chopped chocolate.

I baked it for an addition 5-10 minutes at 120 degrees as the middle seemed to be too gooey for my liking. Cool at room temperature before chilling in the refrigerator for a few hours. 

make me a sandwich

One of those silly things the boys said to the girls during my high school years. This would either lead to the girls retaliating by throwing a cuss remark back, boy bashing or the cold shoulder. True story.

I was asked to make coffee once but I "didn't know how to because I don't drink it". So he ended up "showing" me by making it himself. Heh, loser .

Actually, I was thinking about else as well. During junior and middle school we would have this health day activity which included some kind of a long walk. When we reached our destination we would have a Subway like station waiting for us. Each student would collect a plate, napkin and bread roll and proceed to the teachers where we would point and select what we wanted in them. I never picked beetroot because it looked so strange. Still don't bother with them.

We'd always call them salad rolls because each roll only had one thinly sliced deli meat overshadowed by vegetables.