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Chocolate and Cherry Squares

chocolate and cherry squares recipe

Hi friends! Today I have a lovely recipe for you. I made it the other day and have to say it’s a real treat, especially for those who love the chocolate and cherry combination. Like me. Do you? (… but, then, is there a sweet combination I don’t like? 🙂 )

 
 

chocolate and cherry squares recipe

These delicious squares are beyond easy to make, the preparation takes just a few minutes. Plus, the cherries in this recipe can be easily replaced with any seasonal fruit you wish to use.

 
 

chocolate and cherry squares recipe

We loved this recipe. I am sure I will make it again soon, and next time I might even add drops of cherry jam to the batter here and there. And some rum essence too, that could work very nicely. What do you think?

And here are all the details if you’d like to make the yummy Cherry and Chocolate squares too….

Enjoy!

With love,

Petra 🙂

 

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Chocolate and Cherry Squares
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Serves: 12 squares
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup (200 grams) granulated white sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cups (260 grams) all-purpose flour plus 2 tbsp (to coat the cherries)
  • ½ cup (120 ml) milk
  • ½ cup (120 ml) vegetable oil
  • 1½ tsp baking powder
  • 2 cups (300 grams) cherries, pitted and halved
  • ¾ cup (100 grams) roughly chopped chocolate
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 °F (175 °C) and line a 3 x 9-inch (33 x 22 cm) baking pan with parchment paper, leaving overhanging edges (to help you lift the cake straight out of the pan).
  2. In the bowl of your electric mixer, mix the sugar and eggs until pale in color and the sugar has dissolved.
  3. Add the flour, milk, oil and baking powder in the egg mixture and mix to combine.
  4. Place a half of the cherries in a separate bowl, dust with 2 tbsp flour, mix and add in the batter. Mix to combine.
  5. Pour the batter in the lined pan, smooth out the surface. Sprinkle the remaining cherries and chocolate chunks on top.
  6. Bake at 350 °F (175 °C) for 30 minutes.
  7. Let cool, remove from the pan using the paper overhangs, cut into squares.

 

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Soft Potato Biscuits

potato-biscuits

Hi guys! It’s biscuit time!

I have a real treat for you today. If you like biscuits, then I am sure you will become fans of these potato ones. Us, in the little household of ours, definitely are.

 
 

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These biscuits are soft and flaky, almost like puff pastry. They are full of gorgeous buttery flavor. And they even have potatoes incorporated in them which adds them a new, unusual and very tasty dimension.

 
 

potato-biscuits

They are definitely worth trying.

Enjoy!

With lots of love,

Petra

 

5.0 from 3 reviews
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Soft Potato Biscuits
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Serves: 30 biscuits
 
Ingredients
  • 3¾ cups + 2 tbsp (500 grams) all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup (175 ml) milk, warm
  • ¾ cup + 2 tbsp (200 ml) water, warm
  • ½ cup (100 ml) vegetable oil
  • 1 packet (7 grams) instant dried yeast
  • 1½ tsp salt, divided (1 tsp in dough, ½ on potato filling)
  • ½ cup + 1 tbsp (125 grams) unsalted butter, semi-frozen
  • 1 large potato, cooked with the skin
  • 1 egg
  • sesame
  • coarse salt
Instructions
  1. In a bowl of your stand mixer, combine the flour and the dried yeast. Add the warm milk, water, 1 tsp salt, vegetable oil and mix until combined and not sticky (about 10 minutes).
  2. Allow the dough to rise for about 1 hour or until doubled in size.
  3. Place the dough on a well floured surface, roll out to about ⅓-inch (1 cm) thickness.
  4. Grate the butter and the potato over the surface of the dough. Sprinkle with ½ tsp salt. Fold the dough in half. Then fold into thirds. Roll out again into about ⅓-inch (1 cm) thickness. Allow to rise for about 20 minutes.
  5. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 350 °F (175 °C).
  6. Using a 2.5-inch (6.5 cm) floured round cutter (or the edges of a glass or mug), cut out rounds.
  7. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg lightly. Brush the top of each biscuit with the egg wash, then sprinkle with the sesame seeds and the coarse salt.
  8. Bake at 350 °F (175 °C) for about 25 minutes, or until golden.
  9. Enjoy!

 

This recipe was adapted from here.

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