Raw dessert? I’ll bet a lot of people will be thinking “Really? That sounds so boring!”. Most will probably think that a raw dessert consists of an apple. Or a banana. Or maybe, if you’re lucky, a bowl of ripe berries.
Oh, you do not know how wrong you are…
It’s one of my friends birthday’s tomorrow, and she asked me if I’d mind helping her out with a Victoria sponge recipe which she could make. Well, of course I said yes! Helping someone out with cooking? How could I say no?
And of course, I couldn’t send over a recipe without first trying it out myself!
There’s a bit of a grey area I think as to what “Banana Bread” should be called. I’ve eaten platefuls of what’s always been known as “Banana Bread” in the past, but to me it always seems a bit too decadent, too rich, to be simply classed as bread.
After all, I can hardly imagine anyone wanting to use two slices of this to make their breakfast BLT (That’s vegan bacon, mind you!)
Do you ever get hit by a sudden wave of inspiration so strong, so unexpected, that even if you’re half-asleep, it makes you leap out of bed to go make it happen?
Well, that very thing happened to me the other morning.
I’ve always had a little bit of a love-hate relationship with doughnuts….
I mean, on the one hand, they are sweet, sugary pillows of loveliness…
But then, on the other, they are deep fried, oily, and afterwards leave me feeling like a bloated leaden cloud of oil…
Which is a shame. As I have many pleasant childhood memories of doughnuts. And Churros – The doughnuts’, long, thin, cinnamony-cousin. Continue reading