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A recipe – Chocolate & tonka beans kokosh

A recipe – Chocolate & tonka beans kokosh

Traditions and trend… babka? Last year babka was all the rage, and it seems, still is. From the classic chocolate version to some more traditional like cinnamon, to creative variations such as matcha, social media was full of babka images and recipes. I tried cinnamon babka in New York last year from Russ & Daughters, which was very good, then I tried rugelach (a similar bake) at a famous bakery and hated it (was about 80% butter). A week or…

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A recipe – Bocconotti from Abruzzo

A recipe – Bocconotti from Abruzzo

Regional flavours Many moons ago, when I used to ski with school friends on the slopes of Abruzzo, I use to love stopping in cafes and enjoy a hot chocolate with one of the local chocolate cakes called bocconotti. Since this year we will unusually not spend Christmas in the region, and will not be skiing and eating those delicacies, I was feeling a little ‘homesick’ and decided to give them a try. In fact, even on Danilo Cortellini’s recently published…

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