FOOD & DRINK
Food & Drink A
t the time of writing, winter is still upon us, the snowdrops and
Delicious Chocoate Cake for Easter local ProDucE • rEciPES • EvEnTS
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daffodils are just peeking out, there’s a chill in the air and Lent is about to start. By the time you read this, it will be getting on for Easter, spring will hopefully have sprung and the shops will be laden with Easter eggs; well to be honest they are already and we’ll be thinking of some delicious things to eat during Easter weekend. Over the winter, the nation has continued its baking frenzy, cupcakes are still the new black and silver fox Paul Hollywood, celebrity baker, sends shivers down the culinary spine of the nation. Mary Berry has the answer for every home-baking query and years of experience to call on. Our copy of her Baking Bible is so spattered with cake mix that it’s a testament to the fact that her recipes really work. A lower key baker is another of our favourites, Dan Lepard whose own book on home baking “Short and Sweet” is a fount of knowledge and fantastic recipes. Dan writes weekly for the Saturday Guardian and for the Twitterati amongst you, is always posting pictures of his cakes and international baking adventures.
New for 2013 If you are a keen runner and a keen eater you can com- bine the 2 in the Delicious Dart Trail on 16th March. 250 runners will be making their way along a 10 or 15 mile route from Dartington to Dartmouth along the River Dart incorporating a variety of pitstops on the way, tasting lots of local food and drink. It’s all in a good cause – money raised is going to CLIC Sargent for children with cancer - and you can see more details on their website -
http://deliciousdarttrail.co.uk/trail.html
by Holly and David Jones, Manna from Devon
Purely for research we decided we’d set aside a day or so to track down delicious chocolate cakes for Easter; and to add a little pressure, we invited 14 of our biggest critics to try them out – friends and their children. Chocolate cakes can be
fabulous and enticing to look at, yet disappointingly dry once you tuck into them. A cake with ground almonds or ground hazelnuts can stay nice and moist as can one based on the carrot cake idea. There is a great courgette and chocolate cake recipe from Mary
Berry (who else) which is luscious to eat because of the veggies involved. Just make sure you peel them first otherwise
people can be rather disconcerted by the little green
flecks running through the crumb. i visited the renowned Petersham nurseries in Richmond once; they were serving a delicious chocolate cake which on closer in- spection was full of grated beetroot so had a dark pink tinge but a great way to get some of your 5 a day! cocoa definitely adds a real depth of flavour, richness and chocolate-iness to a cake, much more so than drinking choco- late. It seems, however, to be the major culprit in drying out a
normal sponge mix bringing disappointment instead
of delight. We tried 3 chocolate cakes for you, all of them with added moisture, and after much deliberation decided all would make a good Easter cake. However the winner, with the classic com- bination of chocolate and orange as well as an added nutty crunch was the Chocolate, Hazelnut and Orange Cake. None of them are tricky so do try them at home and see what you think. •
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