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I Have a Bit of a Sweet Tooth

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I have a sweet tooth, but not a sweet tooth for everything – if that makes sense? I would rather eat a cookie than a cupcake or a slice or cake, and I love caramel and toffee, and jelly sweets.

A while ago I saw a video on Facebook for something called a Brigadeiro – a Brazilian treat made with butter and condensed milk, and I just had to try it! Its exactly the kind of sweet treat I love!
The classic Brigadeiro is a chocolate sweet, and its a long slow cooking process to get it to the right consistency. I wanted these to at least last the weekend 😛 so I made little dark chocolate and white chocolate “cups” to put the truffles into.

The chocolate ones were amazing! A rich, dark chocolate truffle!

There was also a strawberry recipe, but I didn’t have any strawberries so I went with blueberry, and they were so yummy!

There are also recipes for other flavours – a cookies and cream one, and a coconut one!

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Anyone For Some “Beater Testing”?

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Why “beater testing”?

Well, apart from the play on words (as in “beta test”) – testing recipes its expensive, and my loved ones are a little biased when I ask them what they think! 😛
This way, I get to work out exactly how long a new recipe will take, and how much it will cost, and I get unbiased feedback on whether a new recipe is a good one or not! 😀

I am planning on adding a range of sexy gourmet muffins to my repertoire, and I need FIVE people to test some new recipes for me!

For R108 (the cost of the ingredients) – you get a box of 12 gourmet muffins, in 6 different flavours:

Lemon crystal muffins
Banana walnut muffins
Jammy almond muffins
Pumpkin muffins
Cranberry orange muffins
Apple strudel muffins

Your test box must be collected from me on Saturday 15 July between 8am and 10am.
Then on Monday July 17th I will send you a few questions about your beater test to help me decide which flavours are a hit, and which are a miss!
If the date and time suits you – please contact me with your name and email address!

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Fancies! Or Uber-truffles… Or Tribbles…?

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This is the result of the beater test – MeeA and Anneke loved them!

I have no idea what to call these, though… They’re not cupcakes, they’re not cake pops, they’re not truffles. I think “fancies” sounds nice?

This dark chocolate shell is filled with caramel, shortbread bits, and chocolate cake!

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The nice thing about this sweet treat is that it can’t go stale, like a cupcake, and you can serve them as a dessert – MeeA had hers with ice cream!
I’m working on a few different flavour combinations, and I haven’t found the right packaging yet – as soon as I have it sorted I’ll post a price list!

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Beater Testers Wanted!

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I have something new – something uber-decadent, that you can’t eat more than one of – and I am going to need a few people to try them for me…

I love Pinterest (you can find me there), and there are SOOO many recipes and ideas that I want to try!
I spotted something there a while ago that I am going to try and make my own version of… I just don’t know what I’m going to call them yet!

So if you’re a fan of chocolate and caramel, and you would like to try 6 (not 12) of something for me, leave a comment!

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The terms of beater testing are as follows:

  • If you want to try this test, there’s a small price to cover the cost of the ingredients.
  • You must leave a comment on this post to tell me which one you would like to try.
  • I will then email you further details – an invoice, my EFT details, a collection date and my address and directions.
  • Your order will have to be collected from me in Midrand.
  • I will specify the collection date for the beta test.
  • Biscuits and sweets can wait for collection, but cakes, cheesecakes and cupcakes need to be collected the day they are baked, or a day later at most.
  • After you’ve sampled your beater test order, you must email me, write a blog post, or leave a comment and tell me what you thought – this is imperative as this is the whole point behind the beater-testing!

An Experiment With Apples!

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I love trying new recipes, but baking for fun has gotten so expensive I rarely have the opportunity anymore.

Last weekend though, I was entertaining so I went digging through my thousands of recipes and found this one – a caramel apple upside down cake!

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It was very yummy indeed!
I’ll make a few changes when I make it again though. I’ll definitely make more of the caramel sauce and cook it slower so its more syrupy and soaks into the cake when I flip it over and I will definitely peel the apples. I go strictly by the recipe and peeling wasn’t stipulated, but you can’t just glide a cake for through an apple skin!
Ooh and I will serve it with whipped cream! It will be divine as a warm dessert!

I think I’ll be adding this one to my pricelist so give me a scream if you think you’d like to try it.

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