{"id":96042,"date":"2020-04-29T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=96042"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:17:23","slug":"step-away-from-the-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/pipa-gordon\/step-away-from-the-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Step away from the chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"

My jeans are too tight! All this home baking and teenagers that constantly need to eat means that there\u2019s way more food in my life than normal!! Beely made an incredible chocolate cake last week, which we ended up having for breakfast the following couple of days just to make space back in the fridge… needs must and all that! Thank goodness for KitchenAid<\/strong> <\/a>– I\u2019ve got my sights on the hand mixer<\/a> next!!\u00a0\"\"
\nOn top of that, I bought the Hotel Chocolat<\/strong><\/a> Velvetiser and Hot Chocolate sachets<\/a> just as lockdown started, as I thought a little hot chocolate here and there would be much appreciated. I hadn\u2019t thought of the ensuing whipped cream and marshmallows\u2026 it\u2019s soooo good! I was over doing Mum\u2019s supper the other night and she was watching James Martin re-runs, in which he baked a no-flour chocolate roulade. It was AMAZING!! I don\u2019t actually want to eat it, as I\u2019m not a fan of roulade, I just want to try it out. I\u2019ve always thought it looks such a challenge to perfect the roll so I\u2019m currently scouring the internet for the recipe, not very successfully I might add!
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\nIt\u2019s a good job we live on the side of a field, no-phone walks and just chatting together are some of the best bits of lockdown for me. On this walk, we reminisced our favourite holiday moments, it was fabulous. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve walked this much in years, although the last couple of weeks I\u2019ve done an equal amount of hanging around in the garden as the weather has been just glorious.
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