Is making spelt focaccia easy? You spend a few minutes making it, ten seconds kneading and an hour or two watching it rise! Really tricky? No signora! The Daring kitchen challenge introduced me to many variations on this Italian flatbread so why spelt flour focaccia? […]
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Tres leches cake recipe and a challenge: let’s make cake and eat it! :)
Would you like to make a delicious tres leches (three milks) cake with a friendly group of people experimenting with this dessert? Let’s do this tres leches cake challenge in the spirit of having fun and supporting each other! It could give us a little […]
Chef Ruben Boldo’s thoughts and tips on baking and his tres leches cake! An inspiring interview!
It all started a few months ago with my online discovery of the renowned pastel de tres leches (three milks cake) when blogging friends told me they luuved this cake. Then as we wandered around the Gracia district of Barcelona a friend suggested we try […]
Apple tarte tatin with Chinese five spices and tamarind! A healthy recipe!
Sometimes things just happen. Like running out of cinammon so you open a previously neglected jar of tamarind paste. And before you realise what’s happening it’s in your Apple Tarte Tatin!! Because you thought it would complement the Chinese five spices, the lemon and the […]
The French lemon macarons recipe experiment! And happy Macaron Day to you!!! :)
Hello sweet reader! Happy Macaron Day or bonne journée du macaron to you!!! 🙂 Yes, I’m not kidding. 20th March is indeed Macaron Day, a yearly event created in 2006 by master pâtissier and creator of an amazing range of macarons and cakes, Pierre Hermé. […]
Week (3) of cakes! Eating then photo-collaging the evidence
Another hard week of making and eating cakes! This week there were some healthy and ‘almost-healthy’ cakes, as I’m now calling them. Hey, reduced portions of butter, eggs, flour and dairy products can be good for you! Three words: ‘small slices’ and ‘willpower’ – of […]
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