I haven't blogged in a while, mainly because I am mainly eating boring healthy stuff which is no fun to blog about so I can get (more comfortably) into a dress I have bought for my friend's wedding. It's by Ozzie Clark so I have to wear it as it's the poshest dress I have ever owned!
Anyway, to break this silence, I have two none too healthy things to write about. The first is from the marvellous Red Velvet and Chocolate Heartache cookbook which I have already raved about. Again, owing to the No-Cake diet, this is only the second recipe I have used, but it works like a dream and they taste gooooooood. Ginger Millies are teeny tiny cupcakes (I made mine in wrappers meant for chocolate truffles) which have a cracking hit of ginger which is mitigated by lemon icing and their bitesized-ness.
I didn't have a tiny muffin tray so I just wedged them in a Swiss roll tin, hence the wonkiness of these little gems. I kind of like them a bit wonky actually - it looks like you made them yourself! I also topped them off with a small piece of crystallised ginger which I found completely by chance in the supermarket.
Sorry, I am not going to give you the recipe (am I allowed?! I don't know copyright laws for these things!) And anyway, you should go and peruse the book yourself to see all the yummy things in it!
Today I also used my ice cream maker for the first time. It's a wedding present, and I haven't used it yet (Mr B and I got married in December last year) which would be shocking, apart from the fact I promised I wouldn't unpack any of the wedding presents until we got a new house. This has taken far far longer than I would have liked, so I broke the rules because we have friends coming round on Saturday and I want to serve ice cream for pud.
I used the basic vanilla ice cream recipe from ice-cream-recipes.com and even if I say so myself, it is one of the best vanilla ice creams I have ever tasted. (I scraped the remnants out the bowl once the churning had finished). On Saturday I am going to serve it with a scoop of apple and cherry sorbet adapted from this recipe. Once I have the results of this experiment, I'll blog again!
