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 […]
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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Healthier sablés or palets bretons recipe (Brittany salted butter shortbread biscuits/cookies)
You can use plain white flour and sugar but the versions with spelt or buckwheat flour, sweetened with light brown sugar or panela (rapadura) unrefined whole cane sugar are also delicious. These are the typical crumbly biscuits from Brittany made with salted butter. They can […]

Baked gingery fruit and quark tart recipe – with homemade inverted puff pastry or shop-bought :)
This can be a very quick tart if you buy the pastry but perhaps you’d like to experiment with homemade inverted puff? It’s totally worth it, beautiful, light and flaky with very little actual work. After you’ve baked the pastry base lather on a thin […]

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, […]