Romanian homemade chocolate, or ciocolată de casă, is one of the sweets I grew up with. It’s made with milk powder and cocoa, with a dense, fudge-like texture and, in this version, roasted hazelnuts. My dad used to receive powdered milk from the factory where he worked. We didn’t use it […]
The other day, while looking through my kitchen cupboards, I realized I had small amounts of several ingredients left: 6 dates, half a bag of puffed quinoa, a handful of coconut flakes from another recipe, and some freeze-dried raspberries that I wanted to use before they lost their crunch. That’s […]
Chocolate is life. I think that pretty much sums up how I feel about this dessert. 😁 I honestly don’t know why it took me so long to make my first chocolate mousse. I probably assumed it was one of those fancy desserts that involved lots of steps and plenty of […]
Since moving to Cluj, we’ve developed a little ritual: whenever we go to Iulius Mall, we make a point of stopping at Coffee Beans, a small shop filled with chocolate and coffee. It’s impossible to leave empty-handed. One of *le husband’s little indulgences is orangettes. They have to be covered in milk […]
Biscuit salami, also known as chocolate biscuit salami, was one of the most popular desserts of my childhood. It was cheap, quick to make, and we could all pitch in — which made the whole process even more fun. We’d break up the biscuits, chop the Turkish delight, mix everything […]
I’ve been meaning to try making some snacks that I could take with me after the gym, but I kept putting it off because I was always missing the main ingredient: dates. Or, when I did have some, *le husband would eat them before I had a chance to actually make anything […]
I spent quite a while trying to decide what to call these. Sweets? Truffles? Little chocolate bombs? 😄 There are enough ingredients in them that, if I’d put everything in the title, I could almost have skipped writing the recipe. Sticking a little stick into each one and calling them […]