This recipe, like the doughnuts with crème diplomat and raspberry jam recipe (and like any other pastry recipe where you make the dough from scratch), requires you to invest quite some time in it but let me tell you, these are some of the best Danish pastries I’ve ever had. The photos don’t do them …
Chicken, Leek & Mushroom Pie
This chicken, leek and mushroom pie takes a bit of time to make but it’s worth it! The sherry and the cream give the filling an amazing flavour. Step by step recipe below and list of ingredients at the end of the post! Finely chop the garlic, onions and leeks (not too much of the …
Fruit & Nut Raw Chocolate
This fruit & nut raw chocolate is made with coconut oil, maple syrup, cacao powder, vanilla extract, sea salt and cinnamon. It’s very easy to make, tastes pretty decent and it’s also dairy free, gluten free and sugar free. This recipe uses pumpkin seeds, pistachios and freeze-dried raspberries as garnish but you can use any …
Chocolate Mousse with Coffee Granita & Chocolate Tuiles
This recipe looks like and tastes like a dessert from a fancy restaurant. It would make a great dinner party dessert! Step by step recipe below and list of ingredients at the end of the post! For the mousse: melt the dark chocolate in a double boiler or a heatproof bowl set over a pan …
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Festive Celebration Cake (Tres Leches Cake)
This is a tres leches (‘three milks’) cake, a Mexican sponge cake soaked in three kinds of milk: condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heavy cream. This recipe uses whole milk instead of heavy cream but the result is still amazing. It is as mouth-watering as it sounds, one of the best cakes I’ve ever tried! …
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Doughnuts with Crème Diplomat
These are the best doughnuts I’ve ever tried. I’m serious. They take a bit of time to make but it is so worth it! Step by step recipe below and list of ingredients at the end of the post! For the dough: heat the milk over a medium heat until lukewarm. Remove from the heat and pour …
Raw Blueberry Cheesecake Slice
I did not try this slice because it has cashews and I’m allergic to them, so I will tell you my husband’s opinion about it: the topping was yummy and so was the base, but he wasn’t convinced about the combination of both, mainly because the base tastes like coconut and the topping like blueberry …
Chocolate Éclair with Ganache & Peanut Brittle
An éclair is a French oblong pastry made with choux dough (the one that is hollow inside) filled with cream or custard and topped with chocolate icing. These éclairs are filled with whipped cream mixed with peanut brittle (brittle is a type of confection consisting of flat broken pieces of hard caramel with nuts), and topped with chocolate ganache. They are …
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Lemon Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing
These lemon cupcakes, like the mango cupcakes I made a couple of years ago, are a bit too greasy and a bit too sweet. There are better lemon cupcake recipes out there, but these are still good enough to enjoy. Step by step recipe below and list of ingredients at the end of the post! …
Baklava
Every time I come across baklava I inevitably remember the Genie in Aladdin singing “How about a little more Baklavaaaaaa?” https://i.imgur.com/jLLZfWj.mp4 Baklava is a dessert made of layers of flaky filo pastry filled with finely chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup. It is a common dessert of Iranian, Turkish and Arab cuisines, and it’s amazing. …
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