If you’re a chocoholic like me, you need to make this Chocolate Olive Oil Cake! It’s rich, luscious and oh-so-decadent. Basically everything you could want in a chocolate cake! The chocolate flavour is intensified with a silky chocolate glaze, and a sprinkling of flaky sea salt.
Recipes
Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is perfect to celebrate the tantalizing flavours of Fall! It’s light and fluffy, packed full of delicious pumpkin flavour and warming spices. The cake is paired with a silky cream cheese frosting which makes it truly irresistible.
Persian Love Cake
Not only does this Persian Love Cake look beautiful, it tastes like a dream too. It is a moist, densely textured cake with both almond flour and regular flour. The cake is flavoured with lemon, rose and cardamom and adorned with a floral rose glaze, with chopped pistachios and rose petals.
Kahlua Chocolate Cake
If you love coffee and chocolate, you must try this Kahlua Chocolate Cake! It makes for an impressive yet simple dessert, with Kahlua and chocolate in every bite.
I got the idea for this cake one evening while enjoying some Tiramisu. Tiramisu consists of ladyfingers dipped in espresso (sometimes spiked with a liqueur), and layered with a lightly sweetened mascarpone cream.
Mixed Berry Cream Cheese Cake
A light and fluffy vanilla cake topped with a layer of mixed berries and creamy cheesecake. Far less complicated than a regular cheesecake, this Mixed Berry Cream Cheese Cake is extremely light, and packed with juicy berries. In every mouthful you get cake, cheesecake and berries. Perfect for your next picnic or dessert table!
This recipe is inspired by picnic-suitable desserts. A while back I was invited to a picnic, and as always, my job was to bring the dessert. I wanted something that wasn’t going to be messy to eat and would hold up well for the hour-long commute. Enter this Mixed Berry Cream Cheese Cake. It has all the wonderful flavour of a cheesecake but has a vanilla cake on the bottom instead of a crust. The cake layer gets par-baked first for around 10 minutes, then the berries and cheesecake layer is added and then baked again. It couldn’t be more easy to put together, and it always impresses.
Ultimate Cheesecake Brownies
These Ultimate Cheesecake Brownies combine the richest fudgy brownie with a decadent layer of cream cheese. Not only do they make an eye-catching dessert, but they are easy to make.
I am not exaggerating when I say these are the ‘Ultimate’ cheesecake brownies. The brownie layer is thick and chewy and so rich in chocolate flavour. Dark chocolate and cocoa powder are mixed with a touch of espresso powder to heighten the chocolate flavour. If you’re not a coffee fan, don’t worry: you won’t taste the coffee in the finished brownie. The brownie is then topped with a layer of creamy cheesecake, for the most indulgent dessert.
Healthy Banana Pecan Bread
This Healthy Banana Pecan Bread is a staple in my house when I have ripe bananas to use up. And once you try it, it’s sure to become a staple for you too!
I’m obsessed with this particular banana bread for two main reasons: it always comes out of the oven so irresistibly moist, and I can never stop at just one piece.
Cinnamon Sugar Doughnut Muffins
All the taste of the classic fair doughnuts but without the deep-frying, these Cinnamon Sugar Doughnut Muffins are full of flavour and so easy to make.
Why muffins instead of doughnuts:
No doughnut pan required: This recipe requires a regular 12-capacity muffin pan, which most people already have.
No yeast required: with no yeast, these muffins don’t require any proving time and come together quickly and easily.
No frying: Unlike cinnamon sugar doughnuts, these muffins are baked not fried.
All the taste: These cinnamon sugar doughnut muffins have all the flavour of cinnamon sugar doughnuts, only in muffin form.
That irresistible crunch: just like cinnamon sugar doughnuts, these muffins have that fabulous crunch.
Same buttery flavour: these cinnamon sugar doughnut muffins have the same scrumptious buttery flavour as their doughnut counterparts.
The Best Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe makes 6 of the Best Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies. So thick and chewy; with a mouthful of chocolate in every bite, these cookies won’t last long! And with no chilling required, you can have these cookies ready to devour in no time.
When that chocolate chip cookie craving hits, these mega chocolate chip cookies will most definitely satisfy it! They are super thick and chewy, with perfect buttery crisp edges and soft centers. And filled with gooey chocolate chips. Although I do advise to give these cookies 15 minutes or so to firm up (they’re so hefty, the centers do need time to set); you definitely should eat them while still warm. This ensures ultimate chocolate chip cookie satisfaction. A hot tip is to heat cooled cookies (one at a time!) in the microwave for 20 seconds to return them to that ‘fresh out of the oven’ state.
Coconut Cake with Raspberry Glaze
With the perfect balance between sweet and tart, this Coconut Cake with Raspberry Glaze takes tea-time to another level.
I enjoy the flavour of coconut in just about anything; be it cakes, cookies, bread or in savory dishes like curries and seafood. This cake came about because I had recently bought some freeze-dried raspberry powder (it was actually on sale!) and I knew I wanted to use it to make a glaze. So I started thinking about flavours that pair well with raspberry, and coconut topped the list. A taste of the tropics paired with a taste of summer berries. What could be better?!