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Baking | Chocolate Orange Almond Gateau … Sweet beginning to our New Year!
The Chocolate Orange Almond Gateau is wonderful and moist, with a beautiful balance of flavours. Orange, almond and chocolate hang in delicate harmony, each complimenting the other, no overpowering flavours here. Even the basic sponge is a nice one to keep in your recipe folder as a base for layer cakes.
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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 adds deep warm winter flavours that mingle with the fruit ever so deliciously, you'll wonder what kept you away so long.
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Apple Cake … Dorie Greenspan’s winning recipe
Everything about Marie Helen's Apple Cake for Dorie Greenspans new book is wonderful & well balanced - the fruit, the texture, the sweetness, the lightness; above all the power to satisfy. The best dessert we've had in a while ... fresh baked, almost steaming hot, a cake which unbelievingly delivered perfect light as cloud slices. I added a scraped vanilla bean to the batter, and flaked almonds on top. It's a designated winner in my book; one which I will make over and over again.
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Baking | Lebkuchen Cream & 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 cake crumbs, moistening it as you allow it to stand in the fridge for a couple of hours. It permeates the layers and infuses the lebkuchen spice aroma right through. This is a light dessert, yet quite satisfying. Include a layer of compote between the crumb and cream layers too if you like. Verrines are a wonderful playground of colours and textures.
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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 chocolate!
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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 'Basic to Beautiful Cakes'.
