Ingredient: Caster Sugar
Caramelised Apple Cake
Have you heard of or tried a caramelised apple cake before? If you haven’t you should! First off, the middle of the cake consists of nice caramelised apples and then it’s topped off with caramel over it. Optional: can add raisins, rum or cinnamon.
Cardamom Infused Lemon Curd Cake
Cardamom and citrus are always an enjoyable combination with tea. So I combined these 2 flavors into a cardamom infused lemon curd cake. It comes with a spongy texture along with a creamy one making it a great tasty contrast. The curd recipe is based on the one made for my sweet & sour lemon…
Fistik Sarma
I had the best Fistik Sarma during my recent trip to Turkey. It was soft with a strong green pigmentation and a dominant taste of pistachio. I wanted to replicate this recipe once I got back home, but was only able to find recipes in Turkish. I had to watch a few videos to get…
Raspberry Macarons
For this week I’m baking raspberry macarons, another classic of French patisserie. It’s one of the most popular desserts among people in France and recently has gained popularity worldwide. If the recipe is followed thoroughly, macarons are not hard to make. For this recipe the Italian meringue was used because it leaves the macarons with a…
Galette des rois
The ‘Galette des Rois’ is typically a French tradition that celebrates the Epiphany. This celebration derived from the night the three kings (wise men) Gaspard, Balthazar, and Melchior, voyaged to pay their tribute to one of the world’s most famous enfant born on earth, bringing with them gifts. This tradition has lost much of its…
Crème Brûlée Cheesecake
A cheesecake without dairy? Yes, it’s true! This Crème Brûlée Cheesecake is actually a New York cheeseless cheesecake, prepared with soy yogurt and soy cream in place of traditional ingredients. For the crust of the cake I used my recipe of cookies, so I’m sure about them being dairy free. There is little sugar in this recipe…
Banana and Peanut Butter Cookies
I wanted to make a 100% dairy free cheesecake but it is quite hard to find dairy free cookies at the supermarket so I decided to make my own banana and peanut butter cookies. For the best flavour, use the ripest bananas you have and for the peanut butter, use the one you like the…
Mountain top Swiss Meringue
Why Swiss meringue ? Sometimes when you bake, you only use the yolk and you have many egg whites that would be wasted. The solution is to make meringues, it is very easy to make, requires the minimum amount of ingredients and always tastes nice. There are three types of meringues: French meringue: egg whites…
Ecstatically Chocolate Éclair
Chocolate éclair is the pastry that you can find in any boulangerie in France. Commonly flavored with chocolate or coffee and situated close to the counter when you buy your daily bread, you can’t not see them. Éclair can be translated as ‘flash’, it is called like this because it can be eaten very fast. The…
Thick Chocolate Custard
The chocolate custard is part of my chocolate éclairs recipe but can be used as filling for any type puffs or cakes. It can be used to make any custard, only the step 8 needs to be change to the taste you want, pistachio, white chocolate, caramel, coffee … Vanilla pods is better than vanilla…