What can you make with your 11-year-old niece as an interesting baking experiment that’s delicious, potentially healthy and not too complicated? You’ll have guessed from the heading: a meringue nest buffet! 🙂 Last week this lovely new concept catered for all my family’s needs, leaving […]
Lamingtons – the greatest discovery ever! A gluten-free recipe! :)
She’d had serious doubts but unexpectedly fell in love at first bite. Swooning at the cloudlike gluten-free genoise sponge made with cornflour and flavoured with vanilla, merging as one with the chocolate icing and delightful dessicated coconut, she instantly realised why Australians and New Zealanders […]
Crazy cocoa and raspberry rainbow cake recipe! Gluten free! :)
A colourful, magical rainbow in a cake. Who could resist? Okay, maybe people like my brother who have strong feelings about E numbers in food. I did try using natural food colouring, I really did. But that plan failed and I’ll explain why later. Wait, […]
Easy peasy raspberry, yoghurt and sponge verrines recipe!
Typical family conversation. Mum: What are we doing with the leftover genoise? Daughter: Verrines? trifle in a glass? Mum: Yes, the raspberries are going off and we need to use them. Daughter says excitedly: Great! Let’s put some alcohol in and they’ll keep better! Mum […]
Spelt croissants – or unspeltified! :)
Did you know croissants didn’t originally come from France? Apparently they were invented following an attempted invasion and some helpful bakers! Will tell you the exciting tale later. But today’s recipe is for croissants that have been ‘speltified’. You can make them with plain or […]
‘Lighter’ coconut, pineapple, lime and rum tres leches cake recipe! For the cake challenge! :)
A tres leches cake should be pretty easy to make, right? A sponge drizzled with three kinds of milk (tres leches) and left in the fridge to absorb them and become a deliciously moist treat! Hmm, will tell you about the ‘issues’ later! My dream […]
Our tres leches challenge cakes! :)
Are you curious to see how everyone did with their tres leches cake? They can be quite a challenge! You need a certain consistency of sponge so the liquid doesn’t bounce off it! And the right quantity of three kinds of milk to produce a […]
Gâteau Moka recipe for Mum! :)
This cake is to make it up to mum for some of those British Mother’s Days in March that passed me by because where I was living it was celebrated in May! Le Gâteau Moka is a very special cake for the French and mum […]
Lemon mousse and raspberry charlotte royale recipe – and the cakometre!
Want to impress your family, friends and stomach? Come into the world of les charlottes royales. They’re easier than you’d expect, striking and delicious. And my new invention the cakometre will calculate the number of slices you’re allowed so you can fully enjoy the beautiful […]
A simple spelt scones recipe and the story of two villages – with drawings! :)
Get comfortable dear reader for there follows a short tale of foolishness and discord all over some simple spelt scones. How did a little boy make things right so everyone could stop fighting and just enjoy their deliciously light and fluffy scones made with natural […]
Spelt focaccia – a challenge or a doddle with Hollywood’s help? :)
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? […]
Sant Jordi festival cake and photos – a recipe with marzipan roses, a dragon and a book!
Who’s Sant Jordi? He’s Saint George and the patron saint of Catalonia following a visit where he slayed the dragon and rescued a damsel in distress. He was a busy knight, completing the same heroic deed in Britain and various other countries. But did you […]
Strawberry tres leches cake recipe with a healthy topping!
And pondering on the milk that doesn’t exist, but later. First let’s talk strawberries, the perfect complement for a traditional Mexican tres leches cake, a deliciously moist sponge soaked in three kinds of milk (tres leches): condensed, evaporated and full-fat (yes, full-fat!). Strawberries give this […]
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 […]
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