DESSERTS
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Chocolate Creme Brulee … The Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible
Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible is here. This one book is a chocolate lovers dream, a book with recipes you can recreate, and easily so. The instructions are clear and simple. It's not…
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Strawberry and Vanilla Macaron Trifle … Joyeux Noel!
Joyeux Noel!! A Strawberry & Vanilla Macaron trifle which was the perfect way to end our Christmas Eve dinner. The colours, the flavours, the textures...all in perfect harmony. The cranberry jelly and suspended…
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Baking| STOLLEN PUDDING … a Daring Bakers Stollen in Bread Pudding
I stole the Stollen we made for Christmas with the Daring Bakers and baked it into a STOLLEN/BREAD PUDDING! Mmmm...just the perfect dessert for a cold wintry day, good to the last crust.…
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Garam Masala Fruit Cake … a twist to the traditional, my recipe from scratch!
A Christmas Fruit Cake with a twist. Have you ever added garam masala to your fruit cake? You really should try it. It doesn't add curry flavours to your cake, I promise. It…
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Baking | Toasted Walnut Linzer Cookies with Strawberry Filling … Holiday Baking Fun!
You must try these cookies! December is whirring by, now unstoppable. Twitter is 'atweet' with who’s baking what, food blogs are bursting with fabulous holiday baking ideas. I wish I had most of…
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Lebkuchen Genoise Verrines with Apple Craisin Compote
I love verrines for their appealing looks. Play around with layers if you like. The space within is your canvas. Lebkuchen flavoured cream whipped to soft peaks mingles gently with the vanilla genoise…
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Delicious & Indulgent Lavender Chiffon Cake with Whipped Lemon Curd Frosting
A Lavender Chiffon Cake dressed up in whimsical and light as cloud whipped lemon curd frosting. A cake added very fast to my list of favourites, and a welcome change from coffee and…
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Coffee Macarons & Pumpkin Pie Spice too – I’d FALL for these anyday!
It's MacTweets Attack Season 13...lucky for some, unlucky for none we hope! It's to do with fall. This is the time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere where the leaves turn red,…
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Dorie Greenspans Pear Vanilla Almond Frangipane Tart for Thanksgiving
Warm and comforting, delicious as can be, a pear, vanilla and almond frangipane tart from Dorie Greenspans 'Baking From My Home to Yours'. Just right for fall, just perfect for Thanksgiving!
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Espresso Coffee Cream Cake … Happy Birthday to me!!
A deep, delicious espresso genoise sponge, smothered in espresso cream, with a dark chocolate lace border...doesn't get better than this for me! The basic cake recipe from White House pastry chef Roland Meisner's…
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In love with Apple Cinnamon Walnut Rough Puff Pastry Parcels … perfect for Fall
A made from scratch, rough puff pastry from Ottolenghi, meets a delightful apple filling from Dorie Greenspan in these delicious Apple Cinnamon Walnut parcels. They were like something you would find in a…
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Baking| Cheddar Rosemary Cheese Straws & Chocolate Walnut Fudge … Diwali
“The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The past week was hectic, like being on a baking express! It was the festival of lights, Diwali,…
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NUTS about Alton Brown’s DOUGHNUTS …Yeastly tales with the Daring Bakers
Yeast doughnuts from Alton Brown's recipe for Daring Bakers...light, fluffy and addictive!
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Apple Pear Open Pie … come mingle with ‘Fruit in Baking’
Having your pie and eating it too? Yes, possible this time. An open apple-pear pie which has a single crust, and is delicious too. It's a smart way to cut back calories, and…
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Baking | PINKARONS – MACARONS FOR PINKTOBER
“We’ll drink a drink a drink To Lily the pink the pink the pink The savior of the human race. She invented medicinal compound. Most efficacious in every case.” Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales The…
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PUMPKIN POTS de CREME – LiveSTRONG With A Taste Of Yellow
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they…
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{Daring Bakers} Decorated Sugar Cookies … these ones are for Rosie!
“Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don’t look at it and wish…
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CHOCOLATE & CHERRY POTS de CREME … the yolks head home!
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” Stephen King If you know a little about me, you might figure out where the egg yolks came from. No…
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{Baking} OLIVE OIL WALNUT BROWNIES … darned good bites!
“Other things are just food. But chocolate’s chocolate.” Patrick Skene Catling Can there ever be enough chocolate goodness in our lives? Not a chance, so as promised I’m back with another chocolate recipe.…
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MANGO KULFI … Traditional Indian Ice Cream
The idea of using pistachios and almonds slightly ground or rather finely chopped in the blender is certainly novel. I've never heard of it before, and it's quite genius. It helps thicken the…
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Chocolate Plum Clafoutis … inspired yet again!
Chocolate Plum Clafoutis... baking through the best of summer.
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Vanilla Chocolate and Chocolate Walnut Eggless Cake … back to the basics
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden It’s time for the Daring Bakers and this time I have to say I’m sorry I couldn’t keep…
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{No Bake/Frozen} PEACH-GINGER & PLUM-VANILLA GRANITA … bidding adieu to stone fruit
Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper. Carol Adams I’m really really gutted and you might wonder why. I feel as if I lost the…
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{Product Review & Recipe} Cottage Cheese & Bell Pepper Quesadillas, Pickled Peppers and Gulab Jamuns – Strange Bedfellows? Maybe …
“Life is the sum of all your choices” Albert Camus Given the choice, I would cook and bake all day with olive oil as my happy cooking medium … SIGH … if only…
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Chocolate Almond Biscotti
“There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE!” Linda Grayson, “The Pickwick Papers” Sometimes life springs wonderful surprises, and I sit back reminiscing about how far I’ve come…
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Tropical Fruit Verrines – get stoned this summer!
Tropical Stone Verrines - A light make ahead dessert, stone fruit based, seasonal, simple, vegetarian, low fat, healthy, colourfu,l and above all, glass scraping delicious!
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{Baking} CORNMEAL DROP BISCUIT PEACH COBBLER … for times when the mason doesn’t show up!
“There’s your karma ripe as peaches.” Jack Kerouac Even while the hammers rain blows down, and the kitchen is in shambles, I have a list of things to do. A cobbler was on…
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Chocolate & Vanilla Swiss Roll Ice Cream Cake … of ice creams & beautiful desserts
Chocolate & Vanilla Swiss Roll Ice Cream Cake ...and exciting baking challenge. It's a bit of work but the end result is totally worth it!
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Deluxe Triple Vanilla Chocolate Cupcakes…
“The 12-step chocoholics program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!” Terry Moore I had these little beauties tucked away in my drafts folder for a bit. They are a variation…
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{Baking} ROBERT’S ABSOLUTE BEST BROWNIES … Ready for Dessert, David Lebovitz
“The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” David Russell Ready For Dessert? Always!! Our home is always ready for dessert and it guarantees making…
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Stone Fruit Chocolate Clafoutis … with flaxseed!
Stone Fruit Chocolate Clafoutis ... with flaxseed! The fruit got stewed in there, and delicious syrup rose up the sides once the custard was baked making way for delicious desserts!
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{Baking} COCOA BERRY DESSERT BROWNIES … with Linwoods Milled Flaxseed, Cocoa and Berry Mix
There’s more to life than chocolate, but not right now. Anonymous THUD! It was that all too familiar noise of the postie chucking a parcel over the gate again. While I braced myself…
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Chocolate Pavlovas with Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse & Preserved Stone Fruit
“To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater. It lies rather in the…
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Swiss Black Forest Cake … whipping up low fat cream into submission!
“Bakers are born, not made. We are exacting people who delight in submitting ourselves to rules and formulas if it means achieving repeatable perfection” Rose Levy Beranbaum Was missing from bloggerville for a…
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Quark Cheesecake with Fresh Cherry Pie Topping
Quark Cheesecake with Fresh Cherry Pie Filling ... my version of a Polish cheesecake with a fresh fruit topping that turned out quite delicious.
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{Baking} CROQUEMBOUCHE with the Daring Bakers … time for ‘crunch in the mouth’!
“The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us….” Marcel Proust The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake.…
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Cherry Matcha Cheesecake Pots … Inspired by Donna Hay
Out of this situation only good will come. I am Safe. One of my favorite affirmations.” Louise Hay on twitter I love reading about cookbooks people own, new ones they’ve added to their…
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{Baking} VERLET’S APRICOT TART … with peaches & cherries too
“Do something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” Julia Child My first introduction to Julia Child came in Feb 2008 via the Daring Bakers challenge of her French Loaf, when…
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{Baking} MIXED CHERRY & BERRY PIE … the day dessert was on Jamie! Great for Mother’s Day!
“Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again” Lazarus Long I really shouldn’t have stopped by. The minute I saw Jamie’s post title in my reader I was mesmerised but…
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{Baking} Ottolenghi’s Individual Cherry & Plum Clafoutis … & a chance to win a Kitchen Aid Mixer
“If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, what Am I Doing in the Pits?” Erma Bombeck YIKES I did it again!! Yes, it was back to the Ottolenghi cookbook for the nth time.…
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Nobake Strawberry Quark Cheesecake
“Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.” Jean Antheleme Brillat-Savarin Happy MAY! Anyone know what happened to March and April? Time is flying,…
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Baking| COFFEE CHOCOLATE-CHIP COOKIES… and a winner for the ice-cream maker giveaway!
“Baking chocolate-chip cookies – an act that makes all seem right with the world….” Dorie Greenspan on twitter Don’t you just love that line? I chanced upon the tweet from Dorie Greenspan a…
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Baking| Fresh Fig & Frangipane Buckwheat Tartlets
“If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.” Ferdinand Point Fruit…
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The Most Delicious Strawberry Mascarpone Ice Cream , no eggs!
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted — stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container. Bill Bryson I was delighted…
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Macarons with Matcha Macaron Buttercream
A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow’s warning, Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in the morning. Harriet Prescott Spofford It’s the time of the…
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Eggless Caramel Cream Refrigerator Cakes with Roasted Strawberries … when inspiration strikes!
Eggless Caramel Cream Refrigerator Cakes ... these little no bake cheesecakes are a sort of panna cotta though the cream is not cooked. I whipped up the cream with caramel syrup, and then…
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CHOCOLATE CHIP & BUCKWHEAT COOKIES … Hot Cross Cookies for Easter!!
“And if the Easter Bunny had wings, he would fly.” John Reeves Back from a short holiday and back to the mundanities which include making breakfast! Why do vacations come to an end…
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Ottolenghi’s Carrot Walnut Cake … with mascarpone frosting
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” Jim Davis That Ottolenghi cookbook has me completely smitten! I think it follows me around, planting itself on…
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Double Chocolate Espresso Biscotti … Eating Your Words!
“Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.” Jessi Lane Adams Some time back I received a beautiful parcel from Asha, or the FSK gal as I call her, a NYC blogger who blogs at…
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Strawberry Cake with Quark & Mascarpone … Delicious, Light and Fruity!
“Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.” Author Unknown I made this cake a long while ago for my SILs birthday. While the cake itself tasted fabulous in every…
