If you are on a diet, don't read on. But if words like caramel, buttercream, choux and couverture make your sweet tooth tingle, you will love these calorific ice cream cafes, old-school bakeries and hotel-standard cake shops. These are mostly concentrated in a tranquil (and also underrated) Clementi enclave poetically named Sunset Way where there is a bakery or a.
Michelle Darmody: Chocolate recipes to enjoy during warm weather
Chocolate raspberry buns are fun to make with kids and are delicious with or without icing
Chocolate raspberry buns are a wonderful summer treat
Sat, 17 Jul, 2021 - 06:05
Michelle Darmody
I most often associate chocolate with winter desserts but these cakes are a little lighter than ones I would make at other times of the year. The combination of fruit with the chocolate adds a tartness that can be refreshing.
White chocolate is different from other types of chocolate as it does not contain cocoa solids. Instead, it is made with cocoa butter that is mixed with milk solids and sugar, often with some vanilla added for flavour. It is quite sweet as the bitterness usually associated with a high cocoa content is not there. It will also soften more quickly than other forms of chocolate as it has quite a high fat content.