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Baking | Cherry & Plum Crisp … Happy Mothers Day #stonefruitlove #summer
A cherry and plum crisp that is simple and delicious. A celebration of summer! #stonefruitlove
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Baking | Spicy Vine Tomato Relish … jars of goodness in season
A Spicy Vine Tomato Relish full of flavour and savoury goodness that celebrates the magic of tomatoes on the vine. It's handy to have a few jars in the fridge, and a great…
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Traditional Savarins with Cr̬me Patisserie : Daring Bakers Рwin some, lose some!
It was the Daring Bakers challenge. Even though the savarins didn't come out winners, the Crème Patisserie more than made up.
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Lime Marzipan Mini Bundt Cakes … fresh and exciting ‘one bowl cakes’ for summer!
Lime Marzipan Mini Bundt Cakes ... charming little cakes that seem perfect for a tea table, picnic, snack box or as a gift. Simple one bowl cakelets that are fresh and exciting.
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Baking | Bittersweet Fallen Chocolate Gateau with Crème Patisserie & Balsamic Vanilla Strawberries … my feature in Mail Today #mailtoday #thecocoatrees
This rustic Bittersweet Fallen Chocolate Gateau is given a charming uplift with a chocolate lace collar. Crème Patisserie & Balsamic Vanilla Strawberries complete the dramatic look to make the chocolate experience even more…
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Raspberry Pistachio Roulade … Spring Roll? Errr Swiss Roll!
The Raspberry Pistachio Roulade captures the colours of spring nicely. It's light, refreshing, moist and quick to make. It's a nice make ahead simple homey dessert.
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Dark Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Peanut Butter Filling … Daring Bakers & Hidden Veggies!
A Dark Chocolate Beetroot Cake that is earthy, moist, dark and delicious. The peanut butter filling compliments the cake really well, and can be doubled if you wish to frost the top of…
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Millet & Whole Wheat French Fougasse … rustic bread with caramelised onions, walnuts, dehydrated tomatoes and mozzarella
Millet & Whole Wheat French Fougasse ... bread as rustic as it gets. If you are a new to whole grain breads, the earthy flavours will gradually grow on you. It's a dough…
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Irish Creme Chocolate Cakes with an Irish Creme Caramel Sauce … Happy St Patrick’s Day
Irish Creme Chocolate Cakes to celebrate St Patrick's Day. What's not to love about these little rustic beauties! Happy St Patrick's Day!!
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The Life of Pi …. err…Pie Bird & A Strawberry Pie
A Strawberry Pie and a Pie Bird. Strange how things happen at a good time. Around the time that the Life of Pi won an Oscar, the good folk from Zansaar sent me…
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Baking | Rye Cheddar Crackers & Pizza Dough Crisps … Crackling good times with the Daring Bakers!
Crisp, earthy, flavourful crackers with rye flour, and crisps made out of pizza dough. Give them a brush of extra virgin olive oil, a sprinkling of dried herbs, pepper, sweet paprika, maybe sea…
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Lamb & Beet Greens Calzones, Pies & Popovers …pizza dough 3 ways
Lamb & Beet Greens - Calzones, Pies & Popovers ...pizza dough three ways. One batch went a long way. Deliciously too with mince lamb and beet greens. We had calzones one day, pizza…
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Double Chocolate Strawberry Pavlovas … sweet indulgence!
The crisp exterior of meringues, the marshallow gooeyness of chocolate within make these Double Chocolate Strawberry Pavlovas a combination made in heaven. Dark chocolate, whipped cream and balsamic strawberries offer a stunning passionate…
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Baking | Savoury Chicken Galette … Cherry Tomato with Green Garlic Pesto & Roasted Veggies with Smoked Sea Salt {Baking with Julia}
A simple, crisp and delicious pastry base which can go sweet or savoury. This savoury rustic pie can hold varied combinations of toppings, vegetarian or non vegetarian, and is great for picnics, snack…
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Baking | Creamy Chicken Pasta Bake … & a Broccoli salad #comfortfood
Creamy, cheesy, indulgent and comforting, this is a great one bowl meal for cold winter days. Make ahead and bake just before serving. Maybe you can do a broccoli salad and oven baked…
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Tea Rose Fondant Cake … and a floral giveaway
A lighter version of the classic pound cake, the Tea Rose Fondant Cake is sandwiched with a light confetti butter cream. The buttermilk vanilla bean pound cake makes a delicious base for the…
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OMBRE … Almond Layered Cream Cake {for the teen who craved pink!}
Happy birthday to the teen who wanted PINK!! A light almond flavoured sponge sandwiched and frosted with an equally light almond whipped buttercream.
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Baking | Traditional Panettone the Daring Bakers way!
A delicious sweet Italian bread like cake studded with fruit, nuts and candied peel. The Pannetone originates from Milan, and is traditionally made around Christmas.
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Christmas Fruit Cake with Garam Masala …. Joyeux Noel 2012
Christmas Fruit Cake with Garam Masala ... Rich, fruity, nutty and deeply flavoured fruit cake for Christmas. The flavours of garam masala lift it to new heights. This is a quick to make…
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Baking | Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies with Smoked Sea Salt and Fluted Pistachio & Craisin Cookies … cookie l♥v
Cookies Cookies Cookies. The events of the past week asked for something comforting … the call was for cookies!
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Baking | Wholewheat Dark Chocolate Brownies … one bowl, whole grain, and delicious
Decadent wholewheat dark chocolate brownies just right for this season of indulgence. Wholewheat makes these less 'guilt-ridden', and some olive oil instead of butter convinces you to reach for more. Add some walnuts…
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Lime & Strawberry Cream Cake … a splash of pink in December!
An almost fatless sponge cake layered with a whipped raspberry cream with strawberries within. This Lime & Strawberry Cream Cake is light, moist, flavourful and gone quick!
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Baking | Pumpkin Pie Tartlets in a Walnut Shell with Spiced Ginger Cream. Happy Thanksgiving!
Walnuts pair beautifully with warm pumpkin, pie spice and ginger to make these simple little Pumpkin Pie Tartlets in a Walnut Shell with Spiced Ginger Cream. A touch of gently spiced ginger cream…
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Coffee & Vanilla Bean Layered Cake …Happy Birthday to me
this is what dreams are made up of. Coffee in a birthday cake has become a quintessential part of my birthday, a flavours that inspires me like no other. Light as air vanilla…
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Baking | Almond Digestive Chocolate Squares & Roasted Garam Masala Chickpeas … Diwali / Holiday Baking
Holiday Baking Fun! These little Almond Digestive Chocolate Squares hit the sweet spot without being too sweet or too buttery. The savoury fare by way of chickpeas came out CRISPY good from the…
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Basque Lamb Stew … White Wine or Red? Surpisingly both!
With winter almost here, this Basque Lamb Stew seems like a good way to warm up ... robust, hearty, full of flavour. It's the time of the year when comfort food tops the…
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One-bowl Milk Chocolate Brownies ….. with a little food for thought!
You believe in the deliciousness of milk chocolate when you nibble these fudgy, chocolaty, moist milk chocolate brownies! Adapted very minimally from Baking for Friends, Kathleen Kings fresh new cookbook.
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Chocolate-Pear Tea Bread … Love Baking for Friends
Delicate pears, brown sugar and butter come together with dark chocolate chips to make a specially delicious moist and flavourful quick tea bread. A delightful fall special from ‘Baking with Friends‘ by Kathleen…
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Baking | One bowl cocoa wholewheat almond brownies … Alice Medrich {#urbandazzle}
Single bowl cocoa brownies. Dark, deep, chewy, moist, chocolaty ... and made with whole grain. Using just whole wheat flour and almond meal instead of plain flour, they turned out to be brownie…
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Empanada Gallega … Daring Bakers at their best!
Empanada is the kind of food that makes one go back to childhood. A bread-like dough that surrounds a filling with just about anything you can imagine, from mushrooms, mince and cheese. Or…
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Almond Chocolate Chip Cupcakes … and getting featured on Femina
‘Cupcakes on the go‘, healthy, requested quite often, good with frosting and good even without. The almond meal adds interesting texture and taste to them.
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Petite Iced Cakes … Coffee Cream, Raspberry Cream & Chocolate Cream
Petite Iced Cajes ... dainty little tea cakes lavished with a vanilla buttercream. Each good to serve four, made with different flavours – coffee, chocolate & raspberry. The flavour possibilities are endless, and…
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French Fougasse with Roasted Red Bell Pepper, Garlic, Walnut & Mozarella … #fortheloveofbread
Bread we love! With the carbs threatening an overdose, did a tiny substitution with whole wheat flour and used instant yeast. I also literally stuffed it, almost making it a more like a…
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Baking| Ottolenghis Brilliant Focaccia … doesn’t get better than this!
Even the dieting diva loved it and couldn’t stop nibbling. It’s no nice and chewy she declared! It really is and that’s the beauty of Ottolenghis recipes…they ALWAYS deliver. The kids had focaccia…
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Filled Pate a Choux Swans – Daring Bakers, Ugly Ducklings and Swans
Light as air pate a choux swans filled with a crème patisserie ... a beaitful Daring Bakers challenge}
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Baking | Not Quite Anzacs … Eggless Oat & Walnut Cookies
Not quite anzacs ... cookies that are nice, chewy if you like them them that way, and crisp if you bake them longer! I loved the flavours trapped within - brown sugar and…
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Oven Roasted Plum & Almond Cakes … Happy 100th Birthday Julia
Tiny little delicious dessert cakes that celebrate summer, stone fruit and plums! They are light and delightful, the almond meal adding beautiful texture to the crumb! Baking With Julia ....
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Baking | Plum Tart with Walnut Frangipane
Fruit in season must be the biggest thrill of my life. I am a locavore to the core and fresh produce makes my heart sing. A delicious summer tart with plums and walnuts.…
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Savoury Seedy Crackers … Delicious, light, addictive, versatile and simple to make
Delicious, light, addictive, versatile and simple to make, crackers don't get better than this. I made some seedy crisps for canapes with the same dough too.
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Red Harissa – versatile, HOT, beautiful … MOORISH!
A flavoursome Moroccan red chili sauce which can be found in restaurants across Morocco. Hot and explosive, it’s worth making even if for a teeny 1/4 teaspoonful! Red bell peppers, dried chilies, little…
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Almond Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Buttercream
Almond and brown sugar cupcakes with a light, tender crumb topped with a silky salted caramel buttercream ... and a visit to The Cupcake Factory.
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Fresh Peach Streusel Coffee Cake …. getting stoned in season
We certainly are getting stoned this season! This Fresh Peach Streusel Cake was delightful. A light, tender crumb, a beautifully flavoured streusel with undertones of almond, clarified butter and brown sugar marrying well.
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Rustic Peach ‘n Plum Summer Galette … moorish summer tart
A rustic dessert bursting with flavour and colour, full of all the fruity goodness that summer offers baked into a simple free form tart. Divine!
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Stone Fruit Crisps {Gluten Free}
An easy, quick dessert baked with seasonal stone fruit. It's quick to make and full of flavour; a summer classic which is gluten free too! Happy 4th of July!
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Lamb & Purslane Pide
The lamb offered subtle, gentle flavours, lilted further by the cottage cheese and bell pepper. the pickled peppers added some zest, and a drizzle of plum chili sauce brought out a delicious complexity…
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Coffee Vanilla Chocolate Chip Battenberg … Daring Bakers go ROYALE!
A simple, stunning and delicious traditional British cake. Wrapping it in dark chocolate plastique made it even more special!
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Macaron à la Peaches et Crème … Vacation Macs!
I'm back on board to get back in sync with the fun and beautiful Mac Attack Jamie and I host each month. This time our call was for Vacation Macs ... and how…
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Dark Chocolate Cherry Mousse Cake #lovestonefruit
A dark, rich chocolate cake layered with deep balsamic fresh cherries and satiny smooth dark chocolate mousse. A chocolate celebration dressed up in a lace chocolate collar, more cherries, dark chocolate flakes and…
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Baking | Oatmeal Nutella Whoopie Pies … and a peep into Old Delhi
Charming little sweet oatmeal whoopie pies sandwiched with a Nutella frosting ... brings out the child in you! Also, the essence of Old Delhi captured in a few photographs. It's a city that…
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Baking| No Knead Buttermilk Chicken Pizza… Where Jim Lahey finds What Katie Ate!
Great thin crisp crust, beautiful blend of flavours, delicious subtle chicken... a wonderful light picnic pizza for spring/summer! Our best pizza yet!!
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Armenian Nutmeg Walnut Cake … the most delicious walnut tea cake!
An addictive, warm, spicy Armenian cake with pleasing overtones of nutmeg and walnut. Simple to make and rustic in appeal, it's a beautiful walnut tea cake to serve. We enjoyed it warm and…
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Armenian Nazook 2 ways … sweet and savoury
An Armenian yeasted dough sweet traditional pastry. The result was so good, the crust is almost like a flaky shortcrust or shortbread, maybe somewhere in between, but quite amazing!
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Baking| Double Chocolate Fudge Brownies … one bowl brownies!
Hmmm ... one bite, then another and soon the square was gone. These were wonderful indeed. Chocolaty, fudgy, chocolaty, fudgy ... decadent and very indulgent brownies! I would have added chopped walnuts but…
