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.

Coconut Banana Bread Mini Loaves

HELLO PALS exam season is over and I am BACK IN ACTION. Hannah has been making cookies for the past few weeks to keep me going the perfect angel that she is but other than that the serious baked good shortage has seen me eating clementines and 100 g bars of dark chocolate - that my friends constitutes a balanced diet - however I did find the time to whip up a batch of coconut banana bread mini loaves which are fat free and pretty damn healthy (for Hippopotamousse ;) )

Pannukakku [Guest Post]

I am DROWNING under the weight of various parasites (metaphorically of course as they are v v v small - revision done? I think so ha ha if only :((( ) so I am leaving this post in the very capable hands of soon to be reader-of-English (is that even a thing can you tell I do science?) Hannah. I hope you all had marvelous seasonal celebrations and the like! Enjoy x

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Hello hello, as Kate is busy busy busy revising for her extremely important exams (and I mean busy, some nights we've even had to do without our customary Buffy episode - it's a hard knock life, right?) I have offered to step in and post something, ANYTHING so that Hippopotamousse doesn't just fade into the dusty backwaters of the internet like an angsty tumblr that's been outgrown (we've all been there, let's be honest). If you have ever frequented Kate's 'About Me' page you will know who 'I' am.