Showing posts with label pecans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pecans. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Salted Caramel Pecan Bites


Moment of complete honesty... I usually shy away from sharing recipes that I've just served to friends/ family (unless they're one of our regular dishes that I've made a million times) for two reasons: a) I'm usually too busy making them to think about taking photos at the same time and b) I'm always a bit nervous that I only like them because they're to my taste and I know all the hard work I put into them... I'd hate to think that they might read one of my posts and think "it wasn't all that"! Tonight though I've decided to be brave... we had a Christmas party with some friends this week and served these little dudes... and the sweet compliments we received gave me the courage I needed to go ahead and share them.

Have you ever had Daim bars? The yummy hard caramel bars with a thin coating of chocolate... the ones you can buy in Ikea? Well that's the sort of caramel we're talking about here... crunchy, buttery and smooth. Just instead of chocolate, we have pecans and just a hint of salt. Yum scrum.

Sunday, 11 November 2012

Ice Cream Sunday: Butter Pecan Ice Cream


It's Ice Cream Sunday! I've decided that I'm going to really enjoy this feature... because it gives me an excuse to make ice cream. Not that I really need an excuse- this feature only started last week, and I'm pretty sure that even before that I had four different flavours on the go in our freezer. I like to think that's because I like to give dinner guests a variety of choices, but really it's because I just. can't. help. myself! It's so much fun coming up with new flavours!