Cuisine: French
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.
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…
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…
Skinny Apple Cake
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