This is a very quick and easy loaf, enriched with a little butter and sugar and flavoured with cocoa powder and dark chocolate chips.  It is not as sweet as you might think, and is delicious as toast or with cream cheese or mascarpone as a snack.

Sift 3 cups of organic strong white flour (bread [...]

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Fragrant piles of bite sized crispy biscuits are my idea of heaven, and these bitter cocoa butterflies certainly deliver. Simple to make, they rely on excellent quality pure cocoa, so don’t bother with an adulterated, sweetened brand.
Originally taken from Regan Daley’s book ‘In the Sweet Kitchen’, I have made these so many times I may [...]

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Biscuits are one of the things I most enjoy making. Not least because I love to bake. Biscuits are versatile, varied and generally very easy. A delicious batch can be knocked up in no time from ingredients I almost always have on hand.
Most cookie doughs are not only addictively yummy eaten raw, but for those [...]

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These gorgeous little pastry creampuffs should be the size of a plum. Small enough to eat in one bite but big enough to have to stretch your jaws to get that one bite in!

First make the Choux pastry.

Once baked and cooled, pipe some sweetened Chantilly cream into the buns until the cream is bursting [...]

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