Sarah Fennel of Broma Bakery posted this recipe on her Instagram page last week. I thought, I’ve got all the ingredients, I’m making them. Easy to make, bake and eat!
They are called brownies, and I do get why they are called this, there is no chocolate, but texture wise they are a bit fudge and chewy. They are a delightful little bar. The icing is also so, so good! Recipe link is here on Broma Bakery website. They’d be lovely for Easter time or Spring time too, in fact anytime!
I love Jane Dunn’s recipes, her books are great, her website / blog is great and her recipes are so lovely. This book is her fourth one, Jane’s Patisserie Easy Favourites. I’ve started cooking from this one in Lent, so I’ve made a couple of savoury recipes and one sweet. If it wasn’t Lent, there would definitely be something chocolate-y like chocolate orange cookie dough desserts, mint chocolate brownies or banana bread Blondies. There is also a beautiful sticky ginger loaf cake, speculoos fudge and banoffee trifle that all look divine - to mention but a few.
Like her previous book, this one is well laid out, beautifully pictured with easy to follow recipes. As well as the usual sweet chapters, there are a couple of savoury ones too. Which I like to see, as a) I’m nosey and like to see what bakers cook and b) supper always needs to be made and inspiration is welcome.
The things I’ve made are Baked Gnocchi, which was lovely, sort of like a Caprese salad except hot for winter and bolstered with gnocchi. Definitely doable on an exhausted night.
Cheesy Ham and Leek bake, this is a bit like a pie filling but instead of mash or pastry on top there is cubed Brie! Another quick and easy supper. My hubby was thrilled with there being lots of leeks, one of his favourite vegetables.
Finally on the sweet side, I made Berry Crumble Pots.
I doubled the recipe so used a small pink baking dish (a new fave I recently bought from Anthropologie!) instead of pots or ramekins.
I really like a berry crumble and this blueberry raspberry one was very good. I know blueberries are good for us, but I really struggle with them raw, cooked however they are delicious.
So pleased to see a new Giada De Laurentiis cookbook. I love Super Italian, the food is craveable. It’s definitely healthier book, but also definitely not a Diet book - it’s La Dolce Vita!
The previous healthy one from a few years ago, now looking backwards makes total sense, healing clean detox food, that Giada needed then to right her digestion and health. Whereas now, in a new chapter of her life, healed, she has more flow and is cooking more intuitively again. The recipes all look like something you’d want to eat. It’s just a real benefit that that they are indulgent with great ingredients.
Age wise I’m similar to Giada, and honestly I’m having problems with my tummy and digestion too. All stemming from not looking after myself properly. I look after and care for my family, it’s never really been even a side thought to do the same for me! Giada isn’t preachy in any way, but she tells her story and I can certainly identify with the things she describes, and now that this book is out I’m more inclined to look back to the previous one too.
The first two recipes I’ve tried are her Sicilian pesto which is then used in Sicilian pesto with prawns (shrimp) both pesto and pasta were delicious. Good, satisfying, but not heavy.
It’s been a while since Giada has written a new book, and she is back with a cracker! Really looking forward to cooking so many recipes from this new book and picking up some of Giada’s healthy tips and tricks along the way.
Hello hello, long time no see! I’m still here, still a cook book obsessive and still cooking. I buy fewer books now, which is a matter of space, pickiness and money too to some extent. Good books are more expensive than they used to be, unless you are as good and famous as Mary Berry, in which case the cost still seems reasonable due to economies of scale. I digress though, I’ve missed writing about and sharing good cookery books. So just like that I thought I’d start once again.
So where to start? Well, this one came out last year, from Broma Bakery website founder Sarah Fennel. I’ve followed her for years online, and always thought she should indeed have a book. So it came to be and Sweet Tooth was born. It’s a brilliant baking book. It has everything you’d want including a Holiday / Christmas chapter - joy of joys!
I made the Cosmic Cookies, my daughter loves a soft cookie, and these were just perfect. Super chocolate-y with yummy ganache topping and I sprinkled with hearts and dried raspberry pieces. In the book Sarah used multi coloured candy coated chocolate, that I’ve not seen in the UK, but then Cosmic Brownies are not a thing here either! Have a look at Sarah’s picture if you buy or have the book, the picture is gorgeous. It’s definitely what drew me in to make this recipe.
