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  • Humpy Madeleine

    Humpy Madeleine

    The madeleine, traditionally eaten without any additional flavors, is typically enjoyed with a cup of coffee or hot chocolate. Easy and quick to make, this childhood favorite is baked into soft shell-shaped cake and can also be made with chocolate chips, chocolate coated, lemon peel, orange or orange blossom!

    There are many legends and stories to how madelines have originated. One of the stories around this iconic cake is that it has been created in 1755 in the castle of Commercy. Duke Stanislaus of Poland organised a reception, but his chef and cook had an argument and left Madeleine, a young cook, alone in the kitchen. She used her grandmother’s recipe and made shell-shaped cakes with it. It was such a success that the duke named the cakes after her and Commercy became the world capital of the Madeleine.

  • Vanilla Chocolate Flan Patissier

    Vanilla Chocolate Flan Patissier

    Couldn’t decide if I wanted a flan patissier with vanilla or chocolate. So I made both in one, creating this nice two-layered vanilla chocolate flan patissier.

    Flan has so many different variations with each country having its own flan, egg tart, pasteis de nata and so on… It initially is based on British custard cake than have spread across Europe first and then the world throughout the time of colonisation.

  • Salted Caramel Chocolate Tart

    Salted Caramel Chocolate Tart

    The salted caramel chocolate tart in my opinion is one of the best desserts I can eat. The chocolate ganache and the salted caramel go perfectly together and it is so easy and quick to make.

    This cake is literally the bomb… a calorie bomb but it’s totally worth it. It melts in your mouth and you only crave it even more!

    The ingredients for the caramel are listed on here but the recipe for it can be found on here.

  • Vanilla Chocolate Marble Cake

    Vanilla Chocolate Marble Cake

    A vanilla chocolate marble cake is a cake with layers of different colours a bit like the crystalline rock of the same name.

    The different coloured layers are obtained by mixing different dark and light batters. These batters can contain different ingredients such as vanilla, chocolate, coffee, fruit or spices so you are not limited to just 2 colours.

    This cake is quite popular in France as an after school snack; children will have a slice … or two when walking on their way home.

  • Ecstatically Chocolate Éclair

    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 beginning of the recipe is the to prepare the chocolate custard. Feel free to replace the chocolate custard by any flavor of your choice, vanilla, hazelnut …

     

     

  • Thick Chocolate Custard

    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 extract, it gives a stronger flavor to the custard.

  • Mediterranean Fougace

    Mediterranean Fougace