Blood Orange Macarons

My eagerness to post another blood orange recipe before Lidl stops stocking them and ultimate life goal to master (alright wouldn't go as far as master, nor declare them my life goal but these turned out pretty darn well) macarons very conveniently led to this fancy pastel coloured post: blood orange macarons. I say fancy because this is definitely a baking milestone for me! Plus I have a lot of making up to post wise since ya know, I'm abysmal at following my self set post schedule!! Uni seems to have thrown all-the-work-ever at us these past few weeks, but deadlines have now all been met and I can breathe PHEW (when I say breathe I mean watch back to back episodes of Angel because I have finished Buffy *sobs uncontrollably*).

Blood Orange Chocolate Loaf Cake

 

January has gone so. very. very. very. slowly. I couldn't be more glad that it's over. February isn't much better what with its dreary drab miserable weather perpetually teetering on the edge of snow (come on if it hasn't snowed by now it should just try again next year please don't make me walk through a sludgy brown mess to get to uni).

Winter-hating aside I finally located some blood oranges! Like a top plonker I've been searching for them since the summer... (for fellow plonkers winter is blood orange season, duh :P ). Anyway I don't go in for the whole 'new year new me' stuff and if I did my self control definitely doesn't stretch to new year healthy eating, so I cracked out a tin of cocoa and made a delicious, dark, moreish, and dare I say it, moist blood orange chocolate cake with a zesty glaze.

In the interest of long term health and well being for those of you possessing the self control to eat all healthily this cake does have some naturally good-for-ya ingredients so it can be enjoyed by everyone, and those adverse to 'healthy' sweet treats won't suspect a thing. Win win sitch right there.

Chocolate Orange Oaty Wholewheat Sandwich Biscuits

Sticky Chocolate Orange Donuts

It's day five of donut week and I tell you, I am surprised to find I am not yet sick of donuts (pleasantly surprised of course!)! I had no idea how versatile they could be - we've had vanilla donuts with raspberry icing, chocolate donuts coated in salted caramel, strawberry and custard filled donuts like you get in the bakeries here in the UK, wholewheat super healthy mango streusel breakfast donuts and today we are moving on to my favourite flavour combination, chocolate orange donuts!

These donuts are so sticky and orangey, part of me wondered whether baking them myself was a dream brought on my all these donuts and my intense love of chocolate orange. As it turns out I made them! Hooray! Now we can all have uber sticky donuts fresh out of the oven to share with family and friends or eat all to ourselves under the pretense that you need all that chocolatey goodness to do revision sit and read your favourite baking blogs whilst sipping a much needed cuppa.

Orange Butterfly Iced Biscuits

The sun is shining in Liverpool again (I probably shouldn't get used to it) so I thought I'd spend the morning making these lovely little fluttery delights! The dough is as delicate as butterflies themselves so needs to be handled with care, other than that they are easy peasy and can be whipped up pronto. (Or it can take you all morning if you are trying to find a no-revision-worthy activity.)