Posts Tagged ‘cinnamon’

Skyrim Sweets

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

I have been playing a lot of Skyrim recently. A lot. And I strongly suspect I am not alone in that. But you can’t always be at your Xbox. Sometimes you have to be at work, or having a cup of tea with a friend in the real world. Fear not! Now, you can take a little piece of Skyrim with you!

A friend pointed me at this rather excellent blog which provides everything you need to know to make a Skyrim-style sweet roll, but I thought I could do one better. Why stop at one snack when you can have two, eh? So, here follows my recipe for the “Honey Nut Treat” and it couldn’t be easier!

Sweet Roll and Honey Nut Treat

Ingredients
200g raw pistachio nuts
350g dried apricots
3 tbsp good quality honey
2 tbsp pineapple juice or lime juice

Blitz everything together in a food processor until it reaches the “sticky mess” stage then, with damp hands, roll the mixture into balls slightly smaller than golf balls. You can eat them like this, or for a more authentic finish, thread them in threes onto bamboo skewers. Either way, keep them in the fridge until you are ready to snack, or at least over night before packing them into a lunch box, so they firm up a bit.

Marshmallows, Marshmallows, Marshmallows!

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

I spent a fun week in the kitchen last week working on new flavours of marshmallows. The raspberry and peppermint marshmallows are old favourites now but I’ve been formulating new recipes in the back of my mind for weeks as I busied myself with other things, so as soon as I got a few spare hours I pulled out my notepad and gelatine and set to work. I started by making the faithful peppermint and raspberry flavours to get in the right frame of mind then began concocting simple blackberry marshmallows, sweet elderflower, lightly fragranced lavender, indulgent chocolate malt and warm, spicy cinnamon marshmallows. I had a great time, and the last batch was ready in time to be piled into a pretty jar and lined up with the rest next to a pot of hot chocolate at my Halloween feast on Monday. My favourite (especially dunked in the thick hot chocolate) was definitely the cinnamon, although raspberry still holds a special place at the table for nibbling. The party guests seemed to favour the cinnamon and peppermint for melting in their hot chocolate and the chocolate malt for munching solo.

Cinnamon Toffee Apples

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

When I saw mini eating apples in the supermarket I knew they were destined for being coated in toffee but luckily for me I didn’t get round to making the toffee until after my sister and I spent the better part of an afternoon extolling the virtues of cinnamon in everything. Yes, everything.

Apple Cake

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Inspired by the pudding cook cupcakes and the sight of several cooking apples in need of a purpose I put together this apple and cinnamon cake with a layer of cooked apples and cinnamon buttercream in the middle.

Hot Chocolate Cupcakes and a Big Pile Of Glitter

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010


I need very little excuse to get over excited about cakes, but when I was invited to a chocolate party last weekend…Well, I could hardly control myself. In fact, I think I did very well just to stick to one type of cupcake and one big cake.

These are hot chocolate cupcakes. Chocolate Chili sponge with a hint of cinnamon frosted with dark chocolate buttercream and chocolate coated marshmallows. I personally can’t resist a chocolaty marshmallow.


And this is a 4-layer white chocolate cake decorated with three flavours of macaron, hand made chocolates, hand piped chocolate cupcakes and at least three types of edible glitter. I’m sorry there aren’t any better pictures of this one. Oh well, just means I’ll have to make another!