This truly delightful, light and fruity summer dessert is a winner, with the perfect combo of a celebratory glass of champagne and lots of fresh strawberries. This version of the traditional charlotte is slightly healthier because there’s lots of fruit, a quarter of the whipping […]
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Japanese Strawberry Sando recipe! A deliciously easy strawberry and cream sandwich!
Have you tried Japanese Fruit Sandos? They’re a new discovery for me and an amazingly fresh, tasty and slightly decadent snack. What’s not to like? They’re very simply sandwiches with fruit and whipped cream in fluffy Japanese milk bread. Absolutely delicious! Maybe they could sell […]
Modernist Greek yoghurt strawberry chocolate cake recipe! Yann Couvreur-style Fraisier chocolat, optionally glutenfree with added sugarfree frosting
This modernist-style decoration with strawberry slices was launched by French pâtissier Yann Couvreur for his revisit of the French classic le Fraisier. It’s straightforward to construct with perfect distribution of fruit both outside and inside, wonderful flavours, moisture and freshness. So I thought I’d share it […]
Lime-oncello strawberry trifle recipe! Slightly healthier greek yoghurt, maple syrup version and Rachel’s English trifle video! :)
This fresh and light fruity, tangy dessert is so delicious it’s my first British-style trifle on the blog. Usually I just eat my messy hodpodge trifles and say ‘hmmm, nice!’. This time it was ‘Wow! That’s so good!’ The elements are lined up a bit […]
Creamy fruit puff pastry tart recipe! With healthier quark and spelt puff options! Raspberries, strawberries, blood oranges …
Want a light, refreshing dessert you can prepare in advance and top with your favourite seasonal fruit? Here’s a simple but delicious tart you can play around with. Ahem. For a healthier and even lighter version make a white spelt flour puff pastry shell filled […]
Healthier Fraisier – a take on the classic French strawberry cake
Pâtisserie can be healthier and delicious! There’s a trend towards superfoods and clean living but why not compromise and have desserts with both healthy and ‘decadent’ ingredients? We’ll whip up a genoise sponge with flour, ground almonds, cornflour and xylitol (a birch sugar substitute) then […]
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 […]
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