Welcome to Kitchen Queries, where the nigella.com team will answer your cooking or food related questions.  We’d love you to submit some of your recipe problems, dilemmas or queries for us to get our teeth into!

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• Devils Food Cake & Frosting

  Can i please ask what brand of chocolate does Nigella use herself for this recipe, and would it be ok to swop the dark chocolate to make a white chocolate devils cake? Also do you know where i could purchase a white chocolate cocoa powder? Many Thanks

  I have just attempted this for the first time but my chocolate topping seems to have gone a bit grainy and doesnt look nice and smooth like Nigellas did. I followed the recipe so was wondering what has caused this? Thanks. Tonihack

  Posted by racheal. Answered on 27th Dec 2010 at 12.00

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• Leftover Turkey

  Hi, I'm making Turkey for Xmas and I was wondering how sucessfully you can freeze leftover cooked turkey. There is so much leftover food at Xmas it would be great to be able to pull it out a few weeks later when we're not so overwhelmed with food and make the turkey hash recipe etc. Thanks very much.

  Posted by Philli7. Answered on 26th Dec 2010 at 12.00

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• Cooking boned and rolled turkey joints

  I had my whole Christmas dinner planned and was ready to follow the Nigella recipe's to the letter. I've been really exctied about brining the turkey and got all the ingredients needed. Now comes the problem....my sister-in-law bought the turkey and thought she was doing us a favour by buying a boned and rolled turkey from the butchers. It's good quality but assuming as it's pre-stuffed I can't brine it. What do I do now? I need a recipe asap. Ppppppleas help me. 

  CAN I BRINE A BONED AND ROLLED TURKEY? BMCP

  Posted by David07. Answered on 25th Dec 2010 at 12.00

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