Villa & Hut Blog

Maybe you have all your New Year’s resolutions sorted out.

You got up at 6 a.m. to run a 10k.  Organized your closet.  Read the newspaper.

Stopped wasting time on Facebook.   Phoned your mother to make dinner plans.

But if you haven’t even begun to think about your New Year’s resolutions – think about this.

We all want to start the year feeling a bit healthier and have more time with friends. So stop texting and meet up with a friend at Villa and Hut cafe for a healthy and delicious Vegetarian Ciabatta, filled with fresh baby spinach, roasted pumpkin, red onions, tomato & feta.  Now that’s a healthy way to ease into 2010.

We are featuring the ‘never before published’ recipe of our best selling Calamocha Mocha Slice.

The beautiful town of Calamocha, located in the province of Teruel, Spain, is home to just 4500 people but the rst place in the world to bring together coee & chocolate – which is where the name Mocha originated – and just like all things Spanish – the secret ingredient to this delicacy is Love. Enjoyed best with a long black coee (or glass of red wine)…Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces – Judith Viorst

OUR INGREDIENTS
1 can of sweetened condensed milk
80g caster sugar
160g unsalted butter
2 shots (30g) of villa & hut espresso coee
150g dark chocolate, chopped (the darker the better)
90g unsalted butter
FIRST – THE BASE
1 1/2 cups plain our
1 tablespoon baking powder
80g caster sugar
160g melted butter
1 shot of villa & hut espresso coee
SET OVEN AT 160 DEGREES
Prepare a slice pan (7 x 25cm). Grease the pan with oil or butter.
To make the base mix, sift our & baking powder into a bowl with sugar, melted butter and coee. Mix with a
wooden spoon until just combined, place into pan then bake oven for 20 to 30 minutes, then set aside.
NEXT – THE CENTRE
Place milk, and 1 shot of coee in a pan.
Place over a low heat and stir continuously cook for 10 minutes until mixture thickens.
Allow mixture to cool slightly then spread over the base prepared earlier.
Place straight into the fridge to cool and set.
THEN – THE TOPPING
Combine the chocolate and butter in a pan, stir over heat until melted and smooth. Generously smear the
cold slice with chocolate. Put back into the fridge until set.
FINALLY
Share it with friends or just share it with yourself.
Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world’s perfect food.
Michael Levine, nutrition researcher