Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Michele de Winton :)
Chocolate. Cake. – Michele de Winton
Now those are two words that go together well don’t they?
Just like tall and handsome, fair and fey, dark and swarthy. Me, I like my
heroes in all sorts of combinations, but chocolate colored eyes, man they’ll
get me every time.
Hi, I’m Michele de
Winton and I believe that chocolate can solve almost everything. Okay, so maybe
not world peace, but it would make a dent in world hunger, and it would
certainly help if you were fainting from seeing Johnny Depp in person.
I wrote a post a while ago about chocolate brownie and
despite the fact this might label me a baking junkie, I’m going to talk about
cake. Chocolate cake.
I’m not sure what it is about those two words that make
most people smile, maybe it’s the thought of the moist crumbling texture of the
sponge, or the creamy buttery spread of the icing. But chocolate cake is
something that every girl (and boy) needs. At least once in a while.
This is actually a Vegan Chocolate Cake recipe. My
husband laughed at me when I told him he’d like it. But then he ate it. And he
loved it. Don’t write it off because of its lack of butter – you can add that
in the icing if you want ;-)
You’ll need:
1 and three quarter cups of flour
1 and half cups of sugar
2tsp baking powder
2 tsp arrowroot powder (this is to replace egg – so you
could use and egg instead if you wanted just add less milk later on)
Half a tsp baking soda
Half a cup of cocoa
Mix
Add three eighths(ish) of a cup of oil, 1 tbsp golden
syrup and 1 cup of soy (or ordinary) milk.
Cook for 40 minutes on 180/350.
Devour.
In The Boss and Her Billionaire Michaela isn’t tempted by
Mr. Chocolate. Not so her BFF Felicity:
“It helps having
an Adonis to keep all the ladies happy,” Felicity drawled. “Poor guy.”
Michaela spotted
Dylan. “He’s hardly suffering. Look at him playing the crowd. I don’t think we
need to worry about him.” He was dancing with an elderly woman, her face flushed
and her hair a frizz, but the smile on her face said she was having the time of
her life. The two of them were surrounded, a circle of women looking on
eagerly. “Jesus, they look like they want to eat him.”
“They probably
do. It’s the same downstairs. Mr. Chocolate has his very own fan club crushing
the purser desk. It’s causing a bottleneck, ’cause no one wants to be served by
anyone else. We might have to throw some acid at his face or something.”
Michaela
snorted. “Maybe you need to take him off the desk and put him on backroom
duty.”
“Now you’re
talking. He could be my paperwork slave.”
What about you? Do you like your men dark and swarthy or
fair and fey?
xMichele
Bio
Michele de Winton loves sunshine, chardonnay, (preferably
together), beaches, trees, great vegetarian food, steamy writing and happy
endings. She’s been known to be an all round arty type and it's no wonder that
her first romance has a little sparkle of the stage tucked into its pages. Being a writer was not was she was supposed
to be when she ‘grew up' but then neither was being a dancer. Sometimes her
performing past jumps out of the dress up box and requires attention. But most
of the time she’s content to stay in her PJs. All day. And she also thinks that
chocolate can solve pretty much everything. You can get in touch with her at
The Boss and Her Billionaire
Cruise director Michaela Western has everything she
wants—everything except a sex life. But there are no secrets on cruise ships.
She risked her job once for a dalliance with the Captain, and won’t do it again
for a few minutes of toe-curling pleasure. Until a devilishly handsome new
staffer with a body made for sin tempts her to walk on the wild side...
Investment billionaire Dylan Johns always gets what he wants. He is used to giving orders—not taking them—until he’s forced to go on hiatus from his investment company. To bide his time and carry out an old dream, he takes a job on a cruise ship—and ends up taking orders from his gorgeous, but uptight, new boss. He is determined to loosen her up with a fun onboard romance, but their no-strings fling turns serious and Dylan is forced to confess his lies.
When the affair threatens to shatter Michaela’s own career dreams, she finds herself caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Investment billionaire Dylan Johns always gets what he wants. He is used to giving orders—not taking them—until he’s forced to go on hiatus from his investment company. To bide his time and carry out an old dream, he takes a job on a cruise ship—and ends up taking orders from his gorgeous, but uptight, new boss. He is determined to loosen her up with a fun onboard romance, but their no-strings fling turns serious and Dylan is forced to confess his lies.
When the affair threatens to shatter Michaela’s own career dreams, she finds herself caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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Thank you for the lovely blog post, Michele. Time for some chocolate cake as I finish reading The Boss and Her Billionaire :)))
Thanks for having me! Think I'll just go have another slice now. XMichele
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure! Chocolate cake is my fave! lol :D
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