White Russian brownies with spiked whipped cream and Cru Kafe giveaway

Coffee and I have a beautiful friendship. I rely on my friend heavily to get me through each day and it’s no exaggeration that I can’t even function before my first cup. If I am lucky, my husband presents me with my first coffee of the day before I have a chance to really wake up.

After that first cup, I have at least three more, switching to decaf after a certain time in order to not bounce off the walls. This coffee addiction intensified greatly after we got a Nespresso machine last Christmas, it is just so easy to make a good cup of coffee at the press of a button.

But not all coffee capsules are created equal and we have been through many before finally finding the ONES. I found out about Cru Kafe from John Quilter, a.k.a Food Busker at a blogger event. He was there to teach us how to BBQ the perfect steak… and I just happened to have embarked on a week-long detox.

So I was chatting to John about my detox and I mentioned that the hardest thing to cut out was coffee… which is when he decided to tell me about his coffee company Cru Kafe. Talk about bad timing! John kindly send me some samples of the capsules once my detox was over and I was instantly hooked.

The Cru Kafe team pride themselves in sourcing the best organic coffee which they offer as coffee beans, ground and

And what would coffee be without a little something sweet to enjoy alongside it? These extremely dangerous White Russian brownies are best enjoyed with a cup of strong coffee. Why dangerous? Well they contain an insane amount of dark chocolate and coffee AND they are topped with Kahlua and vodka spiked whipped cream.

These are very intense brownies indeed and, although I have sliced them in lovely triangles for the photos, it would be advisable to cut them into small squares because a little goes a very long way! If you don’t plan on sharing the brownies straight away then keep the cream as an optional topping on the side.

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