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Black velvet baby cakes

  • 100g softened butter, plus extra for greasing
  • 175g light brown soft sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 100g self-raising flour
  • 50g ground almonds
  • 5 tbsp cocoa
  • 150ml Guinness
  • For the cream
  • 200ml double cream
  • 25g icing sugar
  • Splash Champagne (optional!)
4.6/5 (8 Votes)

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Preheat the oven to 180 ° C (gas mark 4)

  • 125g unsalted butter
  • 150g dark cooking chocolate
  • 3 eggs
  • 225g of sugar
  • 1 tsp of vanilla extract
  • 250g flour
  • 30g cocoa powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 250g plain Philadelphia spread
  • 100 ml of fresh single cream
  • 50g icing sugar
4.4/5 (24 Votes)

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This tasty snack will have you jumping off the walls

  • 1 doughnut
  • 1 bag of green gummy worms
  • 4 finger kit kat
  • 1 wagon wheel
  • Strawberry jam
  • 1 egg
  • Milk
4.5/5 (2 Votes)

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Melt the chocolate, broken into pieces with the butter

  • 250g cooking chocolate
  • 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
  • 150g butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 150g sugar
  • 60g of flour
  • salt
4.2/5 (16 Votes)

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Melt the chocolate and butter in a saucepan over low heat

  • 2 eggs
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 50g flour
  • 100g butter
  • 100g cooking chocolate
  • chopped walnuts
  • Half a sachet baking powder
4.2/5 (33 Votes)

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Mix the butter + ladyfingers in a mixer and press into the bottom of your cake tin to make the cheesecake base

  • 250g crushed ladyfingers
  • 160g melted butter
  • 400g fromage blanc or cream cheese
  • 100g sugar
  • 2 tbsp flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 300g of ice cream (flavour of your choice)
4.1/5 (44 Votes)

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Melt the butter and chocolate in a bain-marie

  • 200 g dark cooking chocolate
  • 200 g butter
  • 200 g sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 100 g flour
  • 100 g walnuts
  • icing sugar
4.1/5 (19 Votes)

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Delicious, smooth velvety cupcakes! The perfect little dessert for birthdays, parties or just for a snack! Kinder B...

  • For the cupcakes
  • 90g flour
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tbsp white cheese
  • 2 tbsp Nutella
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • 1 sachet of baking powder
  • 35g of sugar
  • 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
  • 6 cups
  • For the topping
  • 250g of mascarpone cheese
  • 3 tbsp icing sugar
  • 6 tbsp milk
  • 3 bars of Kinder Bueno (2 for the topping and 1 for the decoration)
  • Nutella
3.6/5 (175 Votes)

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Yep, you read it right, these brownies substitute butter for 0% Fat Greek Yoghurt and they are absolutely delicious

  • 60g Plain flour
  • 65g Light brown sugar
  • 115g Caster sugar
  • 60g Unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/4 Teaspoon salt
  • 1 Flat teaspoon baking powder
  • 115g Plain greek yoghurt (I used Fage Total 0% Fat)
  • 1 Egg
  • 2 Tablespoons of milk (I used semi-skimmed)
  • 1 teaspoon of Vanilla extract
  • 50g White chocolate chunks - optional but would you really take out chocolate?
3.8/5 (8 Votes)

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A great no-bake Banoffee Pie, delicious and gluten-free!

  • 1-1 1/2 Packs of gluten free biscuits (depending on size of pack and size of your serving dish).
  • Optional-handful of gluten free fibre flakes
  • several knobs of butter
  • 3 or 4 ripe bananas
  • 1 to 1 1/2 small tins of caramel flavour condensed milk (approx 350g)
  • 1 large tub of whipping cream
  • Chocolate sprinkles
3.6/5 (148 Votes)

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