African Vanielje on May 20 2009 | Filed under: amazing cakes, baking, chocolate, dairy, sweet kitchen, vkcb
This is not the cheesecake I learnt to bake at my mother’s knee. That cheesecake is a light and fluffy, lemonscented confection. This cheesecake is heavier, richer, chocolatey-er, and easier to bake. I have been making it a lot at the deli recently and as it has been so well received we keep baking it. [...]
African Vanielje on Jul 12 2008 | Filed under: dairy, how to...
Cream cheese, like Ricotta is a dead easy thing to make. I generally make my own yoghurt anyway, especially if I have a surplus of milk, and this cream cheese was made with a surplus of yoghurt.
Line a sieve or perforated container with a piece of muslin.
Mix the juice of 1 large lemon into 500ml [...]
African Vanielje on May 25 2008 | Filed under: breakfast, dairy, vkcb
Sift together
1 cup of organic plain (all purpose or cake) flour
1 T of vanilla caster sugar
1teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
Drop into the centre
One large organic egg
With a wooden spoon slowly beat in
1 1/4 cups (185mls) of buttermilk
30g of butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon of orange blossom water
Heat your griddle pan and cook [...]
African Vanielje on May 12 2008 | Filed under: breakfast, dairy
OMG! The sun is shining! Not only is it shining today, it shone yesterday and the day before too, I have the sunburn to prove it. This morning it is streaming in through my kitchen window. ( Oops. My very dirty kitchen window. Need to clean that. I’ll put it on the list of things [...]
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