The simplicity of this old school chocolate rice crispy recipe explains why it remains a popular homemade treat. You simply: There are many great occasions to gift Welsh chocolate. Chocolate is something to be shared, making it the perfect gift many times throughout the year. Send the Welsh Sayings chocolate bar to a friend, and they are sure to love the Welsh touch alongside the delicious chocolatey taste.

These adorable chocolate animals make the perfect gift for a wide range of occasions. Is your child’s, niece’s, or nephew’s birthday coming up? One of our chocolate lollipops in the shape of an animal is sure to make them smile! Any of these animal shaped chocolates make ideal birthday presents, whether for your little one’s birthday or for a birthday party they are attending. If your child shows up to a birthday party with an animal chocolate box in hand, they are sure to be popular! Use a small paint brush to gently brush a small amount of water onto the fondant where you want the ears and eyes to be. With the help of her young assistant, Charlotte, Sister Genevieve cuts out bars of soap from a large slab that was made two days ago and each bar of soap will take a month to cure. "I first saw soap being made up in The Kimberley in northwest Australia when I was a lay missionary there," she says.If you prefer your frosting to be less sweet then try whipping up a batch of Swiss or Italian buttercream. Silky smooth and delicious! Sister Genevieve is originally from the town of Richmond in Queensland, Australia where her father ran a sheep station. Following five years in Tangier, where she worked in the British consulate, she entered religious life in 1980. "My monastery closed in Australia but I had previously studied liturgy in Carlow and so I eventually came to Kylemore in 2002," she says. "Later, I found out that it was the grandfather of a good friend of mine from Tangier, Muriel Mitchell Henry, who built Kylemore Abbey."

The RTÉ Guide's Donal O'Donoghue visits Kylemore Abbey where the 'Chocolate Nun’, Sister Genevieve, and her team are busy making fine chocolate and luxury soap. You can substitute whole milk yogurt for the sour cream if desired, I do it all the time and can’t really tell the difference. Our chocolate sheep are very popular," says Sister Genevieve, the chocolate-making nun of Kylemore Abbey in Connemara. "Anything that is a sheep, people love, although we have yet to make sheep-shaped soap." Solid chocolate was finally invented in 1847. Once the big brands began to industrialise, chocolates with fondant centres became hugely popular. They were sold in handmade boxes decorated with silk, tassels and lace, with names like Cadbury’s The Fancy Box.Chocolate Rice Krispie Cakes are an absolute Must Do at Easter – if you don’t do anything else, make these! When your sheep head is assembled, carefully set it aside and allow it to harden up a bit before you place it onto your cupcake.

Then the chocolate sheep are produced, as well as chocolate love hearts, butterflies and frogs. "Making soap was my first love but there was a time I was shuttling between the two, soap and chocolate" says Sister Genevieve. You must enable JavaScript to play content 9. Unofficial KitKats were made from dark chocolate and Ryvita in WWII For the cupcakes; prewar the oven to 350F and add papers to a cupcake tin. Sift the dry ingredients (including the sugar) into the bowl of a stand mixer and whisk to combine. Some crispy cake recipes call for cocoa powder but I love the oozy sumptuousness of chocolate for these little treats. When I first wrote this post in 2016 we were all vegetarian and two of us were about to go vegan. Four of us have now switched to veganism so to ensure our crispy cakes are still on the menu I adapt this recipe just a teeny bit.

Add the wet ingredients into a large bowl and whisk them together. Combine the wet with the dry and mix until smooth. Distribute the batter evenly into the cupcake papers and bake for about 15-20 minutes then allow time to cool. Our white chocolate contains a minimum of 36% cocoa butter, the natural fat that is cold-pressed from the cacao bean. This, mixed with full cream milk powder and sugar, gives Woolliam a delectably smooth melt and a mellow flavour. His pink nose is coloured with natural dyes - we use nothing artificial in our chocolates, ever. This particular batch of chocolate Rice Krispie cakes are for Easter so they need some mini eggs nestling on the nest!