Irish visual artist Ciara O’Connor on using embroidery to explore women’s lives
Irish visual artist Ciara O’Connor on using embroidery to explore women’s lives

Nathalie Marquez Courtney

How an interior stylist turned this period Cork apartment into a quietly luxurious home
How an interior stylist turned this period Cork apartment into a quietly luxurious home

IMAGE Interiors & Living

This picturesque, split-level home in Delgany is on the market for €995,000
This picturesque, split-level home in Delgany is on the market for €995,000

Sarah Finnan

March 28: Today’s top stories in 60 seconds
March 28: Today’s top stories in 60 seconds

Sarah Gill

Real Weddings: Keelin and Darren tie the knot overlooking Dingle Bay
Real Weddings: Keelin and Darren tie the knot overlooking Dingle Bay

Shayna Sappington

Let me tell you why a mother is the perfect employee
Let me tell you why a mother is the perfect employee

Dominique McMullan

I broke up with my boyfriend and now I have bangs
I broke up with my boyfriend and now I have bangs

Edaein OConnell

WIN a family pass to Emerald Park this Easter
WIN a family pass to Emerald Park this Easter

Shayna Sappington

This peaceful Victorian-era Galway home is on the market for €1.65 million
This peaceful Victorian-era Galway home is on the market for €1.65 million

Sarah Finnan

How to recreate 90s skinny brows without plucking out your eyebrows
How to recreate 90s skinny brows without plucking out your eyebrows

Holly O'Neill

Image / Editorial

Recipe: Susan Jane White’s Hot Cocoa


By IMAGE
21st Sep 2015
Recipe: Susan Jane White’s Hot Cocoa

Susan Jane White is one of our foodie crushes, mainly because she makes adding milled chia seeds to things fun and tasty. She’s also very much dead on and her new cookbook The Virtuous Tart is a celebration of healthy sweet treats AKA The Dream. If you’re trying to cut down on wheat, dairy and cane sugar when it comes to tea time snacking, make this your new bible. We tried out some peanut cookies last weekend with guests stealing some for the journey home results. If her rather amazing sounding chia and coconut cream victoria sponge sounds a little bit too ambitious for you, this hot cocoa?brew will convert you quickly enough.

Virtuous Tart Final Cover (1)

The Virtuous Tart is in shops now. Buy it here.

Susan writes, “The cacao bean grows from a tree. And trees are plants. So chocolate is basically salad, right?” We say, “Lets agree on that…”

Ingredients
Serves 2?6

2 cups (500ml) unsweetened plant-based milk

2 tablespoons cacao or cocoa powder

2 tablespoons hazelnut butter

1 tablespoon coconut sugar or 2 teaspoons date syrup

Method

Step1: Using a high-powered blender, whizz all the ingredients until foamy. Sounds like a pain in the arse, but it’s the key step.

Step 2: Transfer to a mini saucepan and gently warm to your preferred temperature.

Step 3: Run the blender jug under water to clean it, because if you forget, it’s much harder to scrub later.

Step 4: Pour into two mugs, four dainty cups or six espresso glasses. Kick back with your favourite friends and Fats Waller – or whatever makes your tail wag.

This gorgeous recipe was extracted from The Virtuous Tart by Susan Jane White (Approximately €29, out now)