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White chocolate coconut cookies

I think I have too much time on my hands for my current placement. I’ve been baking 4-5 times a week. This was one of my baking projects last week. I love making cookie doughs whenever I am free so that I can freeze the dough and roll it out whenever I feel like having it. Remember, cookie dough taste better when rested overnight. To make this cookie, I used Donna Hay’s recipe again. The first time I made the cookie, it tasted really good but I didn’t like the texture. I found it a bit too hard so I used melted butter and raw cane sugar to soften the cookie. The cookie is now the perfect texture for me and I absolutely love it! Ingredients 125g unsalted butter (melted) 150g raw cane sugar 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 egg 150g plain flour 150g self-raising flour 80g desiccated coconut 100g white chocolate chips Directions  Preparation time: 15 min Baking time: 15 min Cream the melted butter together with the sugar until a uniform mixture In low speed, …

Sweet potato chocolate cake

My weekend baking project – Sweet potato chocolate cake. Once again, I was recipe hunting on Donna Hay and I came across this recipe. I found it really interesting because firstly, it does not require any oil or butter. Secondly, there was no refined sugar added – the sweetness of the cake comes from the sweet potato and pitted dates. Since sweet potatoes were on specials this week, I’ve decided to give it a try. I made a couple of changes to the recipe. I used plain flour, cocoa powder and pitted dates instead of buckwheat flour, raw cocoa powder and fresh dates. I found it strange to boil the sweet potatoes because a lot of the sweetness would be lost into the water so I steamed the potatoes instead. Even doing so, I found the batter to be lacking in flavour. So I added honey into the cake batter and it made a huge difference! I would say that this cake has got to be the healthiest cake I’ve ever made and it tasted …