Hello sweet reader! Nice to see you again! Here’s my little healthy rum and orange fruitcake-cake anglais, made with spelt flour, honey, light brown muscovado sugar and lots of yummy dried fruits and nuts! And this is the recipe: Yes, it’s invisible. And not because […]
Ispahan lychee, raspberry and rose meringue nests recipe for Chinese New Year!
Don’t panic! It’s all under control! Yes, it’s ‘run-like-a-headless-chicken’ time for food bloggers as we attempt to cope with Valentine’s Day, Pancake (Shrove) Tuesday and Chinese New Year all within the same week! Globalisation has led us into an almost constant state of celebration. Hurray! […]
Healthy citrus curd mille-crêpes cake recipe!
Hello sweet reader, want to go slightly overboard this year and create a mille (thousand) crêpes cake with me? Well maybe not today, unless you’d love a bout of last-minute panic shopping and cooking, but any day of the year can be Pancake Day! Despite […]
Spelt crêpes recipe and some pancake humour!
Pre-Pancake Day greetings to you, sweet or savoury eater! Would you like to practise crêpe-flipping for Shrove or Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras)? To help you out the Sesame Street Swedish chef will be giving a video demonstration later! 🙂 But seriously, these spelt crêpes are […]
Chocolate profiteroles recipe and the amazing Adam (who?)
Would you like to tuck into a classic dessert served in the simplest to most elegant of restaurants, not only in France but all over the world? Chocolate profiteroles are the answer (to everything) and here in Barcelona they are a familiar friend, also gracing […]
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 […]
Drawings of a multilayered blood orange tart recipe
Just as the cake-loving woman thought she could relax and contemplate the sky, she suddenly remembered she had a Fiesta Friday party to attend in those clouds up there. ‘Brilliant, a party!’ Oops… she’d promised to bring a pretty cake! ‘Noooo, not more writing out […]
The story of the life-changing healthy Apple Tarte Normande recipe
There was once a woman who ate too many cakes. The doctors she visited shook their heads sadly and to avoid her imminent and inconvenient collapse in their offices, sent her rapidly on her way to experts in distant places. One presented her with enormous […]
Healthy lemon and cardamon drizzle cake (recipe) goes to a party!
Me and my little cake are off to an online party – yipee! Look, healthy cake! Have another slice. It’s sunshine in a moist fluffy sponge with the tanginess of lemon warmed up by cardamon hovering in the background. So are you game for this […]
Ginger and mint lime pie recipe
Yum yum, or as they say in France: miam miam. I looooove this lime pie. One guest experienced a ‘taste explosion’ and another exclaimed, ‘it’s like Spring!’ This ginger and mint lime pie is another patisserie creation with an identity crisis: it might be American, […]
The Dalí museum and bread adventure
Bread? Dalí? What’s the connection, you might well ask. Prising myself away from my bed and computer on Saturday, I went on an eye-opening daytrip adventure to Dalí’s Theatre-Museum in Figueres. We arrive and lo and behold, above the museum entrance are statues holding aloft […]
Cake lunch, inspired blogging and an easy brioche (recipe)
Anyone for a two-course cake lunch? Let’s sit down and have a cup of Paradise tea. Oooh, some cake and nice light brioche rolls, really easy and fast to make! I’ll give you the recipe. But no baking right now. We’ll just get comfortable and […]
Mojito Macarons recipe – con notas supplementarias en español/inglés al final
Macarons are the trendiest of sweet treats ever, laying claim to their very own World Macaron Day when you can get one as a free handout! Homemade, these delightful petite creations can be filled with your heart’s desire: ganache, lemon curd, salted caramel or even foie […]
Why make cakes and blog about it?
Prepare yourself for a shock. This is a no-recipe post (oh no!) but here’s a photo of a delicious British classic: the Coffee and Walnut Sponge. I love it and so does most of my family, especially my sister-in-law, who will invariably put in a […]
Healthy spirulina energy balls recipe
Want a delicious healthy snack that’s fast and easy to make? Try a spirulina ball! Made with matcha green tea, ground nuts, dates, coconut oil and the new ‘superfood’ of the future that was eaten by the Aztecs, spirulina. You can take these bliss balls […]
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