Recently, I came across the Bake in Black cookbook which was written by a musician and a food journalist in East London. They started started life as a blog from a kitchen and took a song or an album title which then inspired them to create a recipe. It draws influence from the world of rock and heavy metal to create awe-inspiring edible tributes in the kitchen. There are more than 60 sweet indulgences in this cookbook.
From cakes and brownies, biscuits and cookies, through to doughnuts, pies, tarts and desserts, Bake in Black features contemporary recipes alongside time-honoured classics. It is available at musicroom for £14.99.
After browsing through the book, I found that some ingredients like astronaut ice cream difficult to find in a supermarket but items like marshmallow spread can be found from big supermarkets that sell American food.
Anyway, we decided to make this Thunder Chocolate Kisses ’65.
Ingredients:
- 150g self-raising flour
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 100g unsalted butter, diced
- 30g caster sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1-2 tablespoon milk
- 1 jar marshmallow spread with food colouring for the filling
Method:
- Sift the flour and cocoa powder into a mixing bowl, then add the butter. Rub it into the flour until the mix resembles fine breadcrumbs, then mix in the sugar.
- Add the egg and a little of the milk, until it forms a slightly sticky dough.
- Roll into around 16 balls, then put it on the baking sheets. Flatten each with the tines of a fork, then bake for around 12 minutes at 160°c.
- To make the filling, add the colourings until you have the desired shades. Sandwich the cooled cookies together with the marshmallow colours, then eat immediately!
This is so delicious! They’re a bit like S’mores except the marshmallow is not toasted over the barbecue. We all love it! I will be baking these again and both children had fun in the kitchen too!
Disclosure: We received the sample for the purposes of writing this review however all thoughts and opinions remain our own.
What a great name!
Sponge n Roses
Note by note cake 🙂
carrot cake
chocolate choon cake
Treble clef chef creation
Polka dot cake.
Rockaria cake
an eclair called blue suede choux….
Bake my Breath Away!
The Rolling Scones
Red Velvet Underground Cake
Piano Quiche
If I had an angel cake
Rock ‘n roller cake x
Rock and choc cake.
Orchestration
AEROSMITH CHOCOLATE CAKE
The Great Michael Bakes-on
Bon jovis big brownie
red velvet revolver cake!
Notes of Taste
Chocolate Rhapsody
disco dancing
Olly meringue cake
treble clef sponge
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of Cheese) for a lovely cheesecake!!
Rock ‘n’ Swiss Roll
Tune In! 🙂
Symphony in Chocolate 🙂
Brown Sugar Doughnuts!
Bring your daughter to the sugar!
guns n coconut
Iron Maiden My cakes are rather heavy!
I would call my musical cake – melody and make it an ‘under the sea’ (from the little mermaid) themed musical
Maca-tunes
sandy’s strawberry solo
there must be a angel cake playing with my heart
stairway to chocolate!
jamaican ginger cake yummy 🙂
Strawberry Fields!
Girls Just Wanna Have Bun!
Instead of Heartbeat.. Heartbake! 🙂
Treble Chocolate Clef
Limelight (RUSH) A Lime drizzle cake!
Queen of Cakes!
Mmmmm 60 sweet indulgences for a sweet sixteen birthdaY party 🙂
Piano peanut butter cake
Over the rainbow for a rainbow cake! 🙂
Piano peanut butter cake x
Robbie williams Angel cake
musical delusion x
gothic gourmet
Bohemian Rhapsody
Musicana
Rock (cakes) and roll (s)!
These look such good fun – My #Bakeoftheweek is inspired by a recipe from this book too – I must invest in the book to check out the rest of the recipes x
Rock Cake !!
Bohemium Rapsody
Smooth caramel (as in smooth criminal)
Good for you
I Want To Bake Free
HOW have I never heard of marshmallow spread?! x
#Pintorials
Soul Cake!
Dreamy kisses! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays x
Chocolate twist cake
Reggae Rock Cake
Sweet Like Chocolate
Choccieluvva Heaven
Food of Love.
the food formally known as cake
Brown Sugar……… and other ingredients
Somewhere over the rainbow cake
Chocolate rain cake
paradise cakey
OOh they look fab! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuedays x
I’ve got a lovely bunch of Coconuts ‘cakes’
Eton Trifles
Yellow Subma-deira cake!
Black (red) velvet
Layered in Red!
Sweet for my Sweet
Sweets for my sweet
Pour Some Sugar On Me Chocolate Cake.
Blueberry Hill pie …. 🙂
Smells Like Chocolate Spirit
I think Mamma Mia, an excuse for a really extravagant large chocolate cake hmmmmm
Wonder wall brownie xx
The Sound Of Muffin
Chocolate Sonata
Beethoven’s Last Cheesecake!
Have to be something around Queen for me, been a fan since 1973 – even though I’m 21 again in January! So How about from their hit Bicycle Race with bicycles all around & on the top.
I’ve never heard of astronaut ice cream! Was it brought back from the Apollo moon missions?
Me too. I had to check with eBay and found them. They are so expensive thou! They come in foil seal pack for astronauts!
Rock and Chocolate Roll!
Thank you for the Cheesecake
Muffins gonna stop us now!
American Pie! Sorry it was the best I could do, those thunder chocolate kisses look amazing though.
just another muffin monday
Sweet Cake O’ Mine
This book would be perfect for my heavy metal loving hubby! I would make a cake inspired by his favourite band Iron Maiden and call it ‘Run to the Cake…’
Bananarama cake
Sugar Me (remember Lynsey de Paul?)
all caked out
my youngest son plays for Grimethorpe brass band so would have to be Brassed Off
islands in the cream
”I found Heaven” by Cake That’
16 shades of blue (Tori Amos song) and it would be a blue layered ombre cake with white and blue raspberry swirled frosting.
Things can only get better A big Sticky Chocolate cake
Purple Rain. Could do a blackberry madeira cake with purple drizzle. Hubby would love it! Think I’ll have to make this 🙂
I’m a Doors fan so I’m going to say Cakes Hiss By My Window 😀
The first thing that came to mind was We Will Rock You and just have a cake that is in shape of a rock…think I could manage that!