Cupcakes!

Chocolate cupcakes

Ingredients:
350ml sugar
190g butter
2 eggs
30g cocao powder
125ml boiling water
125ml milk
10ml vanilla essence
360ml flour
5ml bicarbonate of soda

Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
Cream the butter and sugar together until light
Add the eggs one by one and mix well
Mix the cocoa powder and water together, add the milk and vanilla essence. Add all of this to the butter mixture.
Sift the dry ingredients together and add to the butter mixture.
Mix well
Spoon into cupcake/muffin pans and bake for about 20 minutes.

ICe with a mixture of melted chocolate and cream or a simple butter icing.
For the chocolate cream you can use 300g dark chocolate and 100ml cream. Heat the cream and add the chocolate. Leave to cool for a while or until it is thick.

For the butter icing you can use 250g icing sugar with 125g butter. Add the colourings or essences (flavours) of your choice.

You can make normal elegant cupcakes with this recipe or you can make bugs, frogs, flowers or anything fun.

This recipe makes 18 big cupcakes.

A new yummy snack. So sweet but no sugar no fat!!

Green Tree's Apple chips!

This is a fantastic new healthy snack that you can find at most Pick 'n Pays and a few other stores. You can find a bigger range at Fruits and Roots shops. I know you can get it in Joburg....not so sure about the other cities in the country.

It comes from China and is made with 100 percent fresh Fuji apples. The apples are then dehydrated to retain their natural flavour. No sugar, addictive and artificial coloring or fat added! And they do taste great.

You can find them in different flavours like vanilla, cinnamon or just plain. They come in 22g packets or bigger canisters (like Pringle's).

I found Pear chips as well as Peach chips the other day. Made the same healthy way.

They are really filling and can do as a fruit portion per day. It is really good for kids because it is all natural and they won't suffer from any hectic 'hyperactive' moments.........

Yum is back!!

Yes.... Dario and Dale is back with a cool new place in Rivonia. The decor is completely different from Greenside. It is funky! Rich! Green and Purple! But still vintage in a way.

The food is pretty much still Dario's stile of deconstructive cuisine. Very interesting and different. The menu is a bit bigger this time with a bit more to choose from than before. Some of the old favourites are back like the snails on garlic porrage as well as the sesame salmon but with a bit of a twist.

It is not too expensive. A main course can cost anything from R45 to R200. The wines are still very expensive, but it is good wines that you won't find anywhere else easely.

Yum Nostalgia is on the corner of 10th and Rivonia Boulevard. Just off Rivonia road. It is really about personal taste when it comes to Yum Nostalgia. Different people have different comments about the place. I had a fantastic experience and so did the people at my table.

Go try for yourself!