Doing the truffle shuffle: 8 pastry chefs, 15 desserts and a lot of Valrhona chocolate

I’ve always been more of a savoury than sweet kind of girl. When it comes to dessert, I’m more likely to order a nice big cheese board than a devilish pud, and by the time it gets to petit fours I’m usually over-faced. But, after a few days spent at the Ecole du Grand Chocolat [...]

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Credit munch: chocolate and pistachio brownies…mmm

What better way is there to show a man who has been known to demolish a giant Toblerone in one sitting you love him than to bake for him? I know, I know, you could smother yourself in melted chocolate and writhe around to Donna Summer, but frankly, that’s just not my style. So I [...]

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