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Peanut Butter and Jam Sandwich Bars

I have five pots of gleaming, ruby red freezer jam sitting on the window sill, and am feeling exceedingly proud of myself.

I have smashed and compounded peak-of-the-season fruit from last year, and my inspiration to make them was because I needed the freezer space for this year’s incoming strawberry bounty, already jockeying for position, as I strong-arm the lid down on our smallish freezer. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Flavours and Textures, Technique Tagged With: bars, jam, peanut butter, strawberry, wafers

Bonbon Leftovers

This week’s post started when my younger son spotted the remaining dark chocolate with a hint of sea salt sailboats, which I had made for their father last week, sitting next to the bowl of slightly bland, but beautifully baked rolls I had made for dinner, the night before.

He picked up a sailboat and a roll, stuck a thumb into the roll, and finessed the “mast” of the sailboat into the doughy centre.  A quick warm in the oven to melt the chocolate: et Voila!

“Sorta like one of those, what do you call them, a pain au chocolat?  Really Mum, I’m just using up the leftovers.”

Absolutely, he is. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Flavours and Textures, Technique Tagged With: leftovers, lemon marshmallow, peanut butter, scotch truffle

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