hah bet the title got your attention huh? Kooky chew human dog food is really “2 1/2 ounces of crunchy cookie kibbles and bits, just like Rover eats. As a bonus, you also get a candy bone.” BONUS! lol it reminded me of this hoho [link via geekologie]

what’s better than brownies? brownies WITH DULCE DE LECHE! oh baby! so other than making a banoffee pie i stumbled onto david lebovitz’s awesome recipe and knew i had to make em


thanks to the awesome emma from bangpr, i scored some green & black’s organic chocolate so i used a mixture of the dark chocolate with a bit of milk chocolate


ingredients: 115g salted or unsalted butter; 170g bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, finely chopped; 1/4cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder; 3 large eggs; 1cup sugar; 1tsp vanilla extract; 1cup flour; 1cup of your awesome home made dulce de leche


mmm chocolate. roughly chop. line square/rectangle brownie pan with foil. make sure it goes up the edges. spray with a bit of oil and preheat oven to 175C


melt the butter in a medium saucepan. add the chocolate pieces and stir constantly over very low heat until the chocolate is melted. remove from heat and whisk in the cocoa powder until smooth. add in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the sugar, vanilla, then the flour


scrape half of the batter into the prepared pan


now grab your jar of dulce de leche. maybe swipe a spoonful first.


drop tablespoons of dulce de leche over the brownie batter. drop bigger spoonfuls than in my photo. trust me. the first time i made these there was nowhere near enough of the sweet sweet goodness so i added a whole crapload of dulce de leche the second time. don’t worry the brownie isnt sweet so it’s ok


spread remaining brownie batter on top. and maybe a couple more spoons of dulce de leche on top. i tried to ‘swirl’ mine with the brownie batter but for some reason it didnt look that pretty hmm anywhos bake 35-45mins until centre feels just slightly firm


and tadah!


and stack em for brownie pyramid awesomeness!

Making dulce de leche. The very thought of making it is enough to send most people crying into a corner for fear of exploding cans and shards of metal and molten caramel everywhere. But one taste of the magical golden awesomeness and you’re hooked. And so one dreary afternoon i attempted to boil a can of condensed milk and punched holes on top so that it wouldnt explode. It didnt explode but water got into the holes which made my dulce de leche crystalise. So second attempt: peel off the label on the can, completely submerge cans in water, cover with lid and let em simmer away for 3 hours, topping up water if you need to. And ignore the rattling sounds (edit: Yas says to put a tea towel on the bottom to prevent the rattling)


And tadah! Mah tin of dulce de leche! Oh look at its sugary awesomeness! So golden! So beyootiful! edit: WARNING! Do NOT open the can straight away unless you want molten hot dulce de leche everywhere! Leave it to cool down for several hours yeah? trust me.


A spoon a day makes chocolatesuze so very happy…

whats in the box! whats in the box!


the awesome krystyna sent me a 1litre sample pack of some of the new flavours from Gelatissimo! Gelatissimo’s ‘Flavours of the World’ is for a limited time only and has some pretty amazing flavours. my flavours in my pack were Swiss Toblerone, American
Fudge Brownie and Canadian Maple and Walnut


(foto from gelatissimo) the swiss toblerone was super super chocolatey! the american fudge brownie had huge chunks of brownie mixed thruout the gelato but the canadian maple walnut absolutely blew my mind! i looove all things maple and there was cinnamon in it mmm cinnamon…


last but not least- i managed to score this gelatissimo bin last year but hadnt had a chance to show you guys hehe its awesome and almost as tall as me!