Ottolenghi – Cupcakes and Couscous

Spicy chickpea and bulgar soup

Published on January 15, 2020January 15, 2020 by Teresa Ulyate4 Comments

Happy New Year, I hope 2020 is treating you well so far! I’ve had a lovely break, but now it’s time to get back to business and I’m looking forward to sharing plenty of delicious recipes with you this year – including today’s very tasty recipe for spicy chickpea soup!

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Chocolate layer cake with dark chocolate ganache

Published on March 7, 2018 by Teresa Ulyate4 Comments

Helloo there. Welcome to March (say whaat?!) and my first blog post for the month. It’s a rather celebratory post and this recipe is inspired by one of my personal foodie icons, Yotam Ottolenghi. This easy chocolate cake recipe is adapted very slightly from one that appears in his book “Sweet” (co-written with Helen Goh) and the reason for this cake post is that this week Cupcakes and Couscous celebrates its fifth anniversary!

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Chocolate suares recipe with cranberries

Macadamia and cranberry chocolate squares

Published on November 18, 2015December 18, 2017 by Teresa Ulyate8 Comments

I made these sumptuous squares of chocolatey goodness over the weekend and they were just too good not to share! The original recipe comes from “Ottolenghi – The Cookbook” and I adapted it to use ingredients that I had to hand. In the Ottolenghi version they included chestnuts and dried figs (which sounds utterly delicious!), but I opted for creamy macadamias and tart cranberries as these also taste fantastic with white chocolate. I also used chocolate coated digestives instead of the regular ones just to up the chocolate even more – go big or go home, right?

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