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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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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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Melt the chocolate with the butter

  • 100g of dark chocolatek
  • 1 tbsp of cocoa
  • 4 eggs
  • 120g sugar
  • A vanilla sachet
  • A baking bag
  • 100g butter
  • 5 cups of plain flour
  • 1 box of sweetened condensed milk
  • 120g of coconut
3.3/5 (160 Votes)

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Crumble cake into a bowl until it appears as fine crumbs

  • Chocolate Cake, pre-prepared
  • Chocolate Frosting
  • 1 box white chocolate, 1 box dark chocolate
  • Cake pop sticks
  • Sprinkles
3.4/5 (137 Votes)

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Satisfy your cupcake cravings with these fancy treats!

  • 120g butter
  • 300g white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 250ml buttermilk
  • 2 tbsp red food colouring
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons bicarb soda
  • 1 tbsp vinegar
  • 250g plain flour
  • 5 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp salt
3.6/5 (152 Votes)

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This dessert should be called Suicide is Painless! I made this in a trifle bowl as shown, but I think I would use ...

  • 1 chocolate cake mix (and ingredients to make cake)
  • 1 large container cool whip
  • 1 large box instant chocolate pudding mix (and milk to make pudding)
  • 1 box Reese's pieces
  • 1 large package Kit Kat bar
  • 1 bag Mini Reese's peanut butter cups
  • Chocolate Syrup
3.2/5 (130 Votes)

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Preheat the oven to 180°C

  • 170g chocolate caramel (Type Nestlé)
  • 2 eggs
  • 120g sugar
  • 100g butter
  • 100g raising flour
  • 15 Dime chocolates (or 2-3 Dime bars broken into pieces)
3.4/5 (140 Votes)

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An eggless cookie dough, perfect for making desserts with that infamously irresistible dough

  • (All in cups I'm afraid!)
  • 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
  • 3/4 cups packed brown sugar (Light brown muscavado is preferable)
  • 1-2 teaspoons vanilla, depending on your taste
  • Half a teaspoon of salt
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons milk (or cream)
  • 1 cup of either small chocolate chips or chopped up large ones (whichever type suits you. Dark, Milk, White or all three!)
3.8/5 (112 Votes)

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Separate the eggs and beat the egg yolks with all other ingredients except the caster sugar and pastry with a rotar...

  • 1 tin of canned pumpkin (alternatively 2 cups cooked, mashed sweet potato)
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1.5 cups evaporated milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 0.25 cups dark treacle
  • 0.5 cups brown sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1.5 tsp ground cloves
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp caster sugar
  • 1 roll of short crust pastry
3.2/5 (144 Votes)

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This is a really simple family favourite of apple puree topped with a crunchy oat topping

  • 1-1 /12 kg Apples
  • 200 gr oats
  • 130 gr Demerara sugar
  • 100 gr butter
3.5/5 (115 Votes)

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