My dad has taught me nearly everything that I know about baking, and I have definitely inherited the Anderson Sweet Tooth. My first food memory involves designing my 5th birthday cake on an Etch-a-Sketch then baking up a delicious (I say that, yet can’t remember whether it was a vanilla or carrot sponge. I’m pretty … Read more
The full name of this post should really be The HUX Double Chocolate Deep Friend Brownie, with Caramel and Macadamia Nut Ice Cream, Mixed Berry Coulis and Crushed Pistachios but that’s a little long winded for a title. And yes you did just read that. Twice. And no you’re not seeing things either. This is … Read more
Posted by The Healthy Pastry Chef on November 9, 2011 · 2 Comments
… the tough make brownies. Reading up on yet more about the French revolutionaries’ ‘vision’ for a utopian democracy just didn’t appeal to me this morning, so I decided it was cookie crunch brownie time. And yes, by 10.30 this morning I had already demolished at least two of the little beauties. NOTE: this is … Read more
Posted by The Healthy Pastry Chef on October 10, 2011 · 1 Comment
Sorry I haven’t posted for a while – the past week has been filled with settling in to uni life, making friends, seemingly never-ending nights of going out, with a little too much alcohol in there as well. Anyway, as there’s no way a student can afford to keep buying flour, sugar, eggs, butter and … Read more
Posted by The Healthy Pastry Chef on September 27, 2011 · 1 Comment
First and foremost, let me apologise for the lack of photographs of the finished product in this post, and for the one only very vaguely decent one. My baklava pictures were the first food pictures I ever took – before I knew of the wondrous close-up shot mode my camera posesses – and as a result, … Read more
I have grown up on Peanut Butter. Until a few years ago, Skippy (obviously) was my go-to PB, but sadly British supermarkets don’t stock it anymore, and even if they do, my goodness is it expensive. So now I live off of this stuff. It’s not the same but its still pretty good. http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=insi00-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B004AVCNCI&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr I found … Read more
