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Cooking With Christie: Toffee!

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Inspiration: Walking through a local bookshop dedicated to cookbooks, I discovered America’s Test Kitchen’s book Food Gifts. Amongst the many intriguing recipes was one for Chocolate Matzo Toffee.

Whilst I’d never heard of this sweet treat before, it is apparently a well-established dainty! Even better? It’s easily customizable!

Now, if you can’t find this version of Chocolate Matzo Toffee, there are plenty of recipes online to try — but this one is easy to make and delicious.

The only slightly specialized equipment needed is a candy or electronic thermometer.

Feeling relatively comfortable with this recipe, I switched it up slightly despite not having made the sweet before. Rather than creating a sea salt-flecked treat, I blitzed a half-cup of raw pumpkin seeds and mixed them with the chocolate before pouring it over the toffee. Figuring the slightly bitter taste of the pumpkin seeds would help balance the overall sweetness of the toffee and chocolate. (As well as adding an extra layer of texture.) Then, I speckled some holiday-themed sprinkles onto the chocolate to help relieve the overall monochrome-ish-ness of the treat.

It was a huge hit!

Christie: I can easily see Inspector Japp or Capt. Arthur Hasting enjoying a box of these buttery sweets!

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Cooking With Christie!

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This Week’s Recipe: Baguettes

Inspiration: I had a hankering for bread that could sop up soup broth. So I started flipping thru my Ankarsrum cookbook and found the baguette recipe.

Shockingly, I didn’t change anything!

(There’s a first time for everything.)

Other than perhaps needing to twist the dough a bit more (a technique I’d never applied before) the bread turned out perfectly and was exactly what I was looking for!

Christie: Now after a bit more practice – I think even Poirot would eat my baguettes!