Cassel’s flan cassis is one of the most delicious custard tarts I’ve ever tasted and well worth making. Fast and easy to whip up, the trickiest thing may be finding the blackcurrants with their beautiful sharpness to balance the soft sweetness of the custard filling. […]
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Healthier sourdough orange and lemon cake recipe! And how to start on sourdough adventures and plans! :)
If you feel you’d never make a sourdough cake please think again. They’re delicious with an unusual depth of flavour and made with simple ingredients: flour, butter, eggs and relatively little sugar. But the process creates a delicious healthier cake that’s easily digestible! I’m no […]
Snickers layer cake recipe! Small or mini version, gluten free or not… :)
This cake is like a snickers (marathon) chocolate bar but much better my climbing friend assured me. Another friend said it was perfect! Hurray! Everyone has loved this cake. There’s a lovely balance between the moist cocoa sponge that isn’t very sweet, the homemade peanut […]
Healthier apricot and quark faux fried egg pastries! A fun Easter or brunch recipe…
These are delicious pastries and rather amusing! They look like fried eggs don’t they? Eggs are a symbol of Easter and rebirth so I thought I’d post this easy fun recipe you can make with kids. The roughly-shaped puff pastry bases are filled with a thin […]
Kanelsnurrer, Scandinavian cinnamon and cardamom twist buns recipe! À la Claus Meyer …
Also known as cinnamon knots, rolls or swirl buns, these are an amazing combo of cinnamon, sugar and butter swirled in a cardamom-spiced light buttery dough to create delicious pastries with a crisp outside and soft fluffy centre. I read somewhere they’re not too sweet […]
Healthier strawberry tart with vegan blackcurrant curd recipe! Gluten-free or not …
Strawberries and blackcurrants may not be the most well-known combo but they’re amazing together! Love at first bite, the mellow strawberries calm the powerful blackcurrant curd for a marriage made in heaven. It’s worth tracking down blackcurrants or blackcurrant purée though blackberries are supposed […]
Plaited brioche recipe! With optional rum and orange blossom water plus spelt, plain or lower-gluten flours…
Bake this brioche and it could become a weekly event! It’s delicious, light and versatile. Adapted from top pâtissier Yann Couvreur’s recipe, all the prototypes have been delightful made with various flours and quantities of milk or cream. Choose from white spelt flour, plain cake […]
Gluten-free Sicilian sunshine lemon citrus drip cake recipe! Inspired by Escribà!
This cake was created to meet the January challenge set by our Cooking the Chef group. The chef chosen was Christian Escribà, master pâtissier and owner of the renowned Escribà pâtisseries here in Barcelona. With his spectacular creations conveying originality and emotions, he never refuses […]
Creamy flan parisien recipe – classic French custard tart à la Mori Yoshida!
Baking a flan parisien has been a dream for many years but with so many recipes the choice was overwhelming and I made none at all! I also feared my flan would be of the scarily bright yellow rubbery kind but when we tasted Mori […]
Happy new year!!! Top posts in 2017 and baking projects for 2018… And how are healthier and vegan cakes doing? :)
Hello there fellow cake people! Hope you’re having a lovely 2018! It’s time for new year’s resolutions … um in my case a list of cakes I’d like to make this year! Yay! First looking back at 2017 in the featured photo above you can […]
Passion fruit and raspberry charlotte log cake (bûche charlotte) recipe from a workshop! And festive Biarritz!
I wasn’t going to post this as the cake wasn’t made at home but it’s so lovely and I’d like to share some photos of beautiful Biarritz during the festive season and wish everyone a great Boxing Day (Sant Esteve here in Barcelona) and happy […]
Healthier masala chai tea bag shortbread biscuits (cookies) dipped in chocolate recipe! Plus Christmas cookies! :)
I know it’s almost Christmas but these tea bag biscuits are so lovely they’re now the main recipe! And the Christmas cookies are thrown in (delicately) because they’re made with the same dough but more butter. I’m not usually a biscuit person but recently batches […]
Ritz-style crackers recipe! Glutenfree or not… With cakes and boulders in Fontainebleau! :)
So you have amazing cheese and red wine but you’re trying to cut down on other naughty snacks. Crackers are so addictive and buying a packet to eat slowly never quite works out. Yes, we’ve all tried willpower but apparently naughty salt’s to blame – according […]
Raspberry, lemon and peach Fantastik tart recipe! Healthier gluten-free, low-sugar with refined options! And what is Michalak’s tarte Fantastik?
Fantastiks are riding the new wave of French pâtisserie! They were invented by the renowned pâtissier Christophe Michalak who aimed to create fusion tarts-entremets (layered mousse cakes) that are simpler to make, transport or eat and deliver an explosion of flavours and textures at every […]
Matcha, raspberry and ricotta cream swiss roll recipe! Healthier, glutenfree, unrefined low-sugar with refined options! :)
Swiss rolls aren’t from Switzerland! And matcha green tea isn’t either but this amazingly light roll cake is international, delicious and pretty healthy! The soufflé sponge can be made with standard sugar and flour as in my earlier prototypes or glutenfree and sugarfree using xylitol. The […]
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