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Dark Chocolate Caramel Oat & Almond Shortbread
This is the season of holiday baking, and only good can come out of the seasons inspiration. Oats + Almonds + Flour + Butter + Brown Sugar = Crisp delicious shortbread. This shortbread…
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Baking| Dark Chocolate & Strawberry Mini Cloud Gateaus … For #NellysBigDay
These Dark Chocolate & Strawberry Mini Cloud Gateaus were a big hit! Can't go wrong with dark chocolate and strawberries, a pairing made in heaven. These were decadent and festive, almost a gateau…
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Bittersweet Chocolate Orange Strawberry Tart … rich & delicious
Bittersweet chocolate paired with sweet scents of orange zest, topped with strawberries in a Digestive biscuit crust – eggless too. I think this might well be a dessert than can please one and…
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Filipino Sans Rival Cake
This is an indulgent good cake. The nutty meringue complimented the rich vanilla buttercream beautifully, the meeting of textures delicious. Once layered and rested overnight, the now slightly chewy meringue and the satiny…
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Mini Apple Upside-down Cakes with Salted Butter Caramel… #applelove
Mini dense, moist apple cakes, flecked with cinnamon and vanilla, dressed up in a warm salted butter caramel ... comforting, warm dessert that is quick to make. Full of apple goodness!
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Baking| Perfect Pumpkin Pie … and simple too {#getsmart}
This is a pie right for fall. The filling … silky, smooth and spicy! The crust just right, not too crisp, yet offers a handsome bite, gently teasing the palette with beautiful pistachio…
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Baking| Apple Brown Sugar Meringue Pies for BBC Good Food India … Life is sweet!
Apple Brown Sugar Meringue Pies. Each bite was full of warmth … apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, walnuts. Can’t go wrong with those flavours this season, can you? I made these for the inaugural…
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Povitica – Croatian Sweet Walnut Chocolate Bread
Povitica is traditional Eastern European dessert bread served during the holiday season.This walnut version, a Croatian Walnut Bread, is rolled yeast bread made of sweet dough slathered generously with a delicious walnut/chocolate/vanilla filling.…
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Frozen| Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream {Eggless} … quite the ‘Perfect Scoop’
A very unusual and addictive Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream that uses just 4 simple ingredients. It's silky, velvety, deep and sensuous ... an absolute winner from The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz.
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Baking| A is for Apple – Bite Sized Apple Pies for SRC & Steve Jobs
Simple yet addictive, a novel and fast track apple pie, bite sized and bursting with fall flavours. Must try for apple lovers!
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Chocolate & Strawberry Cream Cake … Pinktober
Its the PINK time of th year again. Yes indeed, Mr PABs birthday found us celebrating with a Pinktober cake. A simple, moist, delicious cake that can be made ahead. The oil in…
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Frozen| Plum Frozen Yogurt … low fat treat for Pinktober
A refreshing and beautifully coloured low fat frozen treat. The addition of vanilla sugar and kirsch give it that special flavour. This is a nice way to preserve excess fruit of summer for…
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Baking| Apple Strawberry Basil Hand Pies from Beantown Baker {SRC}
Delicious and comforting, hand pies with an apple, strawberry and basil filling. Great grub on the go, and nice for an informal dessert too. Serve with a drizzle of unsweetened cream.
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Roasted Peach & Plum Ice Cream … with condensed milk {eggless}
A delicious, low cal ice cream. I love the depth of flavour that roasting fruit gets. Add a vanilla bean and it gets addictive.
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Baking| Vanilla Almond Frangipane Plum Tart … the last of the plums {well almost}
It was one of those obsessive days, a ‘have to bake with plums’ sort of a day! The plums found a happily ever after ending in this pretty fruit bake – a Vanilla…
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Le Frasier … but with mangoes
Frasiers are said to be traditional French strawberry & cream dessert. In my case, I had to wander far from traditional as we are long past strawberry season here in India. Stone fruit…
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Baking| Apricot & Plum Cobbler … the Secret Recipe Club & a guest post
“You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” George Bernard Shaw It’s July with the Secret Recipe Club and the inspiration behind…
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Frozen| Mango Frozen Yogurt … guilt free indulgence
Mango Frozen Yogurt which tasted every bit like an ice-cream, rich, smooth & divine, but was sans the cream!
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Baking| Cherry Phyllo Pie … sweet cherry pie, with home made phyllo.
I am still amazed at why I didn't get to making phyllo at home earlier. This is a summer pastry for a country like ours. Light, crisp, versatile, delightful ... ah-mazing stuff! The…
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Black Sesame Macarons with Cherry Chocolate Ganache
Black Sesame Macarons with Cherry Chocolate Ganache ... Black sesame seeds instead of almond meal went into these to experiment macarons for a friend. Sandwiched with a delicious fresh cherry dark chocolate ganache…
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Peach, Plum & Apricot Streusel Crumble … Fine Cooking In Season
Peach, Plum & Apricot Streusel Crumble. The colours, the flavours, the charm of stone fruit ... always like a dream. The crumble was addictive and difficult to keep away from. Add to it…
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Baking| Nutella & Fresh Cherries Chocolate Tart … May with Megan @ The Secret Recipe Club
A chocolate tart with a deeply luscious Nutella and chocolate filling, a vegetarian filling, which can be made ahead and is ADDICTIVE! This is my entry for The Secret Recipe Club this May.
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Dessert| Bittersweet Chocolate Marquise with Crème Chantilly & Balsamic Cherry Sauce … when God created mothers!
Dessert for Mothers Day. No bake, make ahead and deeply divine - a Chocolate Marquise with topped with sweetly scented vanilla Crème Chantilly, lavished further with a Balsamic Cherry Sauce ... expect the…
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Whipped Strawberry Curd Cream Tartlets with Walnut Shortbread Crust
A delightful light summer berry tart with a walnut shortbread crust, and a whipped strawberry curd cream to fill the crust! A new twist to lemon curd, and we loved it!!
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Delicious Old Fashioned Eggless Chocolate Cake with Balsamic Strawberry & Cream Filling
We loved this cake! It's special because it is a layered cake, EGGLESS, no butter and still deeply decadent and 'chocolaty' moist! I filled it with a balsamic strawberry and cream filling, and…
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No Bake Dessert| Creme au chocolat shots … fudgy, indulgent, deep chocolate creme
This is my fast track version of Crème au chocolat which translates simply into my idea of an indulgent chocolate cream! The basic recipe is quite versatile, and can be easily doubled too.…
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Frozen Dessert| Strawberry Fresh Mint & Lime Sorbet … summer’s here & macarons too!
What better way to welcome the dreaded HOT days of summer. This is a natural and sensational sorbet to beat the heat. It is fresh and exciting, and a wonderful way to use…
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Delicious Strawberry Apple Crumble … a very easy heart friendly dessert!
One of my favourite fruit bakes ... A heart friendly dessert with complex carbs, delicious fruit and low calories. Use fruit of the season, stone and pip fruit work great here, throw in…
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Baking| Strawberry & Lemon Curd Shortbread
Oh the power of food, always A M A Z I N G!! I enjoyed making these. Loved the different textures, the colours, the burst of flavours from the rather buttery unsweetened shortbread…
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Mousse-a-cotta with Macs in the Air!
A deliicous experiment later, mousse-a-cotta or panna-mousse is what found its way back into these goblets. It found its way into the dwarfs tummies at express speed too! They loved the second fast…
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Baking| Strawberry & Whipped Lemon Curd Napoleans … ♥Happy V Day♥
Time for mille fueille, the classic French dessert which holds endless charm. I fell for the trap of this love filled or rather love-fueled day. Blogs are resplendent with sweetheart desserts, one more…
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Chocolate Granola {gluten free} … the granola that changed my life!
Gluten free Chocolate Granola ... the granola that changed my life! How healthy can healthy get, and how delicious can healthy get? Try it for yourself. It’s five minutes of work to deliciousness.…
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Baking| Nutella Strawberry Puff Pastry Hearts … ♥World Nutella Day♥
Nutella Strawberry Puff Pastry Hearts ... ♥World Nutella Day♥. Nutella and strawberries offer quintessential seductive pairing; serve them in crisp puff pastry hearts, and I think you'd hit bulls eye! Crisp buttery pastry,…
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Biscuit Joconde Imprime/Entremet … Strawberry & Chocolate; Espresso & Chocolate
A Biscuit Joconde Imprime to wrap around an Entremets dessert. A Daring Bakers challenge done in 2 hues - Strawberry Bavarian Mousse with Chocolate Cream, and Espresso Panna Cotta with Chocolate Cream. Fabulous…
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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…
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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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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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Baking | Dorie Greenspans PEAR VANILLA & ALMOND FRANGIPANE TART … 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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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…
