These tartes tatin are a doddle to make and pretty much foolproof with the right apples! The puff pastry base and apple domes are baked separately, a technique currently used in many French pâtisseries, so you don’t have to worry about soggy bottoms or underdone […]
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Slightly healthier apple pie layer cake recipe! Gluten free or not, adapted from Christina Tosi’s momofuku cake… :)
Try this delicious autumn apple cake with amazing layers magically combining flavours and textures with that genius Christina Tosi touch. Close your eyes and be transported to apple pie-stroke-cheesecake eating mode … with layers! You can go yummy full-sugar, butter or gluten as in the […]

Apple strudel recipe with traditional or lower-gluten homemade pastry! Inspired by Alfons Schuhbeck…
Wait, don’t leave! The homemade pastry is fun and not difficult, honest! Making strudel with the traditional pastry hand-stretched and spread thinly over a cloth has been a dream of mine for years and there was no need to be scared because it’s easy and fast […]

Puff pastry apple turnovers recipe with coconut sugar! Slightly healthier chaussons aux pommes! :)
These treats might not look amazing but they taste absolutely wonderful! When my initially unimpressed cake testers took their first bite their eyes popped with delight. One said I should open a bakery and another that they’d happily attend any cake courses I gave. So […]

Chocolate, chestnut mousse and spiced apples verrines
There’s a trend in French patisserie for ´deconstructed desserts´ where the elements have been pulled apart and reorganized differently. And so my log cake was broken down, with the chocolate cider sponge and chestnut purée magically reappearing in some little verrines, layers of different textures […]

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 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 […]