Posts in dessert
Caramel Profiteroles Recipe

I specifically chose this recipe because it was one that I really perfected under Jenny Westwood’s guidance, my home economics teacher at St. John’s and it’s now in my cookbook! St Johns will always have a special place in my heart. I hope you enjoy making these as much as I did.

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Cameron Easton's Avocado Ice Cream Recipe

This dessert is, despite its rich flavours, very clean and light. The flavour of the brownie is enhanced by the coarse salt, its sweet richness beautifully offset by the savouriness of the ice cream. The coriander hits your palette as a fresh and inviting aftertaste. This unusual pairing makes for a delightful ending to a meal – earthy yet light and fragrant.

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Anele's Belgium Chocolate Brownies Recipe

Anele has chosen to share her home-cooked favourite - a perfect recipe to try over the festive season. “This is a very quick and easy recipe which I enjoy baking,” she says. “Whenever friends or my two nieces visit, I make Belgian chocolate brownies. Most people enjoy chocolate, and these are best served with creme fraiche and a good cup of hot chocolate.”  Anele has a seriously decadent sweet tooth.

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Lemon Meringue Recipe

The new year welcomed the #20182019 students to Jackie Cameron School of Food & Wine. Over the next few months, I plan to introduce you to our current students. Each of them will share their own family-favourite recipe with you and we’d all be grateful if you’d try the recipes and then email the school with your comments. Courtney Stuart chose to share her lemon meringue pie. It was so delicious that it was flattened before our eyes soon after Karen Edwards had taken the last photograph.

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Jelly and Custard South African Weber Trifle

In conversations at the school, no celebration is a celebration without: Jelly and Custard... and I believe over the festive time a good-old Trifle, so here is my South African Weber Trifle recipe.

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Granadilla Tart with Romany Biscuit Base & Italian Meringue

For those with a seriously sweet tooth. Italian meringue is smooth and glossy; to make it, you need a sugar thermometer. Did you know that in baking, ‘romany’ is a term used to describe a chocolate-coconut biscuit?

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