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Yesterday night was St Martin's day in Germany and I had to bring some food to my children's kindergarten (or nursery). I had a bar of chocolate in my cupboard so decided to bake an easy peasy chocolate cake! I found the recipe on this fantastic French website called Marmiton where people share their recipes. Each recipe comes with a rating and comments from other people who have tried it as well as a picture (but not for every recipe).

For the chocolate fondant, all you need to do is to melt 100g butter and 200g chocolate in the microwave. When melted, add 5 egg yolks.

Add 100g caster sugar and 4 tbsp of white flour and mix well. Then beat the 5 egg whites until stiff and incorporate them to the mixture. My son did this very carefully!

Pour the mixture in a butter greased cake pan and put it in the oven at 180 degres for about 20 minutes (depending if you want the cake to be firm or gooey!). My children loved eating the leftovers of the chocolate mixture ;)

Unfortunatly, I don't have any pictures of the final cake because I completely forgot to take one! But here is the picture from Marmiton:

http://www.marmiton.org/Recettes/Recette-Photo_fondant-au-chocolat_15025.aspx

And here is where we had the cake, around a nice fire :)

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I received this recipe with my weekly fruit and veg box from http://www.abelandcole.co.uk
Clementines are in season so this is a great recipe if you had too many at the bottom of your stocking ;)

For the topping:
20g butter
1 tbsp clementine juice
3 tbsp sugar
8-10 clementines cut into thick slices

For the cake:
10 g butter softened
2 clementines juiced and zest finely grated
150g sugar
2 eggs
150g self-raising flour
150ml yogurt
1 tbsp ginger
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 180 degres.
Butter a round cake tin.
Melt 3 tbsp of sugar with the butter and clementine juice over a high heat in a heavy frying pan, stirring in the edges as they caramelise to make a thick fudge sauce.
Lay in the clementine slices and cook for 1-2 minutes on each side, till brown and release their juices.
Transfer the clementines onto the tin.

Beat the butter and sugar until light and white.
Add the eggs one by one.
Fold in the flour, yogurt, ginger, cinnamon and clementine zest.
Add enough clementine juice for the mixture to drop softly from the spoon.
Spread the mixture over the fruit.

Bake for 40 minutes, covering loosely with foil for the last 15 minutes.
Wait till the cake cools a litlle, then tip onto a plate. It should look fab!

   

Click here to download:

Clementine_upside-down_cake..zip (13 KB)

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I baked those delicious Christmas biscuits. They are very easy to make
and you can add any dried fruits. They are perfect with an espresso or
a cup of tea (if you live in England :))
The recipe is on the BBC GoodFood website
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/8022/fruity-christmas-biscotti?binderbox=showlogin

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