A Valentines Tale

So many ways to eat and drink Jablum Blue Mountain Coffee, from making your own truffles to this extravagant prune cognac and coffee cake to plain and simple romantic desserts to go with your dinner for two perhaps? Using a good dose of beautiful Jablum expresso poured over the top of your favourite vanilla ice-cream ! But as promised we have our 4th and finale recipe to add to your collection from Blue Mountain Emporium, for all you coffee lovers out there!!!

 

If you wondering why the sad expression on the face of the lovely girl , the whole Valentines Tale is lovingly told in my very first blog video! At the very end of this blog page! Just above the gorgeous image of Emily Blunt do scroll down and check it out, it's soo sweet!!!!

 Blue Mocha

Ingredients

4 tbspn of double cream

2 oz of plain chocolate

½ tspn ground cinnamon

2 heaped teaspoon of Jablum Instant Coffee

550 ml/ 20 fl oz milk

Vanilla sugar

Method

1. Place cream and chocolate into a microwaveable bowl. Add ¼ teaspoon of ground cinnamon and stir.

2. Warm in Microwave on reheat setting for 15-20 seconds, stir until combined.

3. Stir in the Jablum Instant Coffee.

4. Heat milk in microwave for 2 ½ minutes. Whisk milk to create a thick froth.

5. Add a little hot milk to chocolate mixture and stir to combine.

6. Pour into cup and top up with hot milk. Pile on the froth and dust with vanilla sugar.

Enjoy!

Happy Valentines Day to all of you lovely Fabulous Followers and subscribers, thank-you for all your comments, I cherish each and every one, wishing you much joy whether you spend the day with friends family or your partner. P.S let me know what you thought of the valentines video at the end of the blog page!

Love,
Sharon x

Date Cake! - See If It Lives Up To Its Name!

This Valentines, submerge yourself in the lush scent of a pink flower, play dress up in your favourite frock, practice sashaying up and down your bedroom floor, as if you own the red carpet, bake a special treat for someone you love and enjoy being a domestic goddess! 

From the fantastic people at Blue Mountain Coffee Emporium, as promised, I bring the 3rd in a series of the companies closely guarded, delicous receipes, using Jablum Blue Mountain Coffee for Valentines week!I'm calling it Date Cake, (tecnically speaking it's  ginger and lemon, with dates in it) bake one and who knows.... I make no promises on the outcome, but hey, it's pretty much a win win situation! You get a great date either way! hee hee, sorry I just couldn't resist! I hope you enjoy making this yummy cake! Let me know what you think it eats like. 

 Sharon x

Squidgy Lemon And Ginger Cake-Perfect With A Cup Of Jablum Blue Mountain Coffee!

Ingredients

200grms dates, stoned

200grms butter, cut in pieces

300grms dark muscovado sugar

2 eggs

50grms fresh root ginger grated

1 lemon, zest grated

200grms self raising flour

1 bramley apple peeled and diced

50grms white chocolate to decorate

1tbsp chopped candied lemon peel

to decorate

How To Make

1.Heat oven to 160/fan 140/gas 3.Butter and line 20cm round cake tin (about 8cm deep) with parchment.Put date in a bowl and cover with boiling water.Heat butter in a small pan until melted, and stir in sugar.Allow to cool slightly.

2.Beat in the eggs, ginger and lemon zest.Drain the dates and chop them finely. Scrape them into the pan too, and mix well.Stir in the flour, then apple. Spoon into the cake tin, then bake for 1.15 hrs, until well risen.

3.Break the white chocolate up, heat in a microwave, until melted, remove cooled cake from the tin, drizzle melted chocolate over and  scatter the candied lemon peel over the top of the cake.Serve a generous slice with a steaming cup of Jablum Coffee or your favourite coffee and enjoy! 

I never realised how beautiful date trees were till now!Hope your having a good week and this post makes it a little sweeter. Pop over and visit the people at Blue Mountain, they are a genuine ethical coffee company, that import Jablum Blue Mountain Coffee from Jamacia. 

Let Them Eat Cake! x

Serenade your soul this Valentines day, with all things pretty and tasty! To get you in the mood, for spoiling yourself or the one you love, here is another great receipe for- Blue Mountain Emporium, brownies, using their famous Jablum coffee! Do pop in and visit them and let them know what you thought of their receipe!

Love,Sharon x

Mocha Brownies

Ingredients


4 tbsp butter


15g/4oz plain chocolate


6oz Demerara sugar


2 eggs


1 tsp Jablum Instant Coffee dissolved in 1 tbsp of hot water and cool


3oz plain flour


½ tsp baking flour


6oz melted plain chocolate for topping


Method


• Preheat oven to 180C, 350F, Gas Mark 4.


• Grease and line a 20cm (8 inch square cake tin).


• Melt butter and 4oz of chocolate together in a saucepan over a low heat.


• Cream the sugar and eggs until light and fluffy.


• Fold in the coffee and chocolate mixture.


• Stir in the sieved flour and baking powder.


• Pour into the cake tin and bake for 25-30 mins.


• Cool in the tin and then cover with 6oz of melted chocolate.


• Divide into squares and enjoy with a delicious cup of coffee, Jamaica Blue Mountain of course!

Love is........

To celebrate the run up to Valentines day I have teamed up with the lovely people over at Blue Mountain Emporium who carry the most divine, prestiges coffee on earth! Grown on the blue mountain in Jamaica, with a portion of the profits going towards the setting up of a scholarship fund, to allow disadvantaged children to access an education!  They have kindly decided to let you into some of their most jealously guarded, delicous coffee receipes!!They felt that valentines day should be as much about loving yourself as perhaps a person you love!So which ever way you feel, if you adore your coffee, you have the perfect excuse to bake yourself a beautiful coffee treat! Each day in the lead up to valentines day, there will be a brand new recipe to try, unique to Blue Mountain Emporium!!!  

  

Love is remembering what first brought you together, never wanting to hang up, loosing yourself in a kiss, each moment spent together feels as sweet as the last. S xx

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Ingredients:

For the pudding;

125g / 4 ½ oz Ready to eat Dates, chopped.

125ml / 4 ½ fl oz water, just off the boil.

1tsp Jamaica Blue Mountain Instant Coffee.

¼ tsp vanilla extract.

½ heaped tsp bicarbonate of soda.

37g / 1 ½ oz butter, at room temperature.

75g / 2 ½ oz Demerara raw cane sugar.

1 large fresh egg, beaten.

87g / 3oz self-raising flour, sifted.

For the sauce;

87g / 3oz Demerara raw cane sugar.

55g / 2oz butter.

60ml / 2floz double cream

Method

• Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 4, 350 F, 180 C.

• Grease and flour a 2lb loaf tin.

• Place chopped dates, Blue Mountain Instant Coffee, vanilla extract and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Add the nearly boiling water, stir and leave on one side. This will turn into an almost pureed mass.

• In a large bowl mix the butter and sugar, beating well. Add small quantities of egg, beating well after each addition.

• Fold in the sifted flour with a metal spoon. Add all of the date mixture and fold in.

• Pour into prepared tins and bake in the middle of the oven for 30-35 mins, depending on size of container, or until done when tested with a skewer. [NB This mixture will also make 6 individual muffin sized puddings, bake for 20 mins.]

• Make the sauce by melting all the ingredients in a pan over a gentle heat, stirring until the sugar has completely dissolved.

• Place pudding on a serving dish and pour over the hot sauce. Serve with a good quality vanilla ice cream and enjoy!

 

Blogging? Do It In Style!

Hi Gals,we spend alot of hours blogging which got me thinking about those simple pleasures we keep by our side as we forge our path in the blogging world! Like that hot, fragrant cup of coffee.If you have ever had the good fortune to taste Jamblum Blue Mountain coffee, you will know it has a sublime taste, unique to the Blue Mountain region where it is grown in Jamacia.Sometimes we deserve to treat ourselves a little, but how much better does that feel, knowing that when you buy coffee from Carole and Peter at http://www.bluemountainemporium.com the profits go towards a foundation they have set up with the sole intention of providing a scholarship to help send Jamaican children to school.

So here is my little love affair with the brown stuff! For you to enjoy! Please visit Carole and Peters site and see for yourself that coffee and a conscience can go hand in hand.Sx                                          

                                                           

Top tip, you must try expresso over good vanilla ice-cream it is heaven in a bowl!x