Category: Cakes, Cookies & Co

Chocolate- lemon Madelaines

This mornings work are these Chocolate- lemon Madelaines also from Pierre Hermé’s cookbook “Chocolate Desserts”. An other nice tea cookie, easy to make, all the need is time ( most precious good I know ). Gives you 12 Madelaines. 70 gr all-pirpose flour 3.5 tbs…

Financiers

I have a queue of things I want to do that lasts to Afrika. On the list is lot’s of weeding but also planting as important things as soybeans, imagine picking your own edamame in your garden! Then comes lot’s of cooking and baking I…

Pear and Roquefort pie

I work way to much at the moment, it’s buying season and instead of trying new recipes from my lovely new cookbooks I run from one fair to the other.  Hotel breakfast and the junk food one usually eats  during the day don’t make me…

Apricot Half Moons

An other new discover are these little fellows. All you need is good a biceps muscle. I didn’t expect it to be so hard to squeeze the pastry out of the icing bag. But after the first try I was already tired. This is an…

Chocolate Orange Trees ( or whatever)

I found an other cookie I really like, chocolate orange cookies. They are easy to make and already the dough is delicious ( important to me because I lick to pinch 😉 ). I’m not to much into all these christmas cookies that smell of…

Kids cookies

Yesterday we started making cookies, rather late I realized, last year we started a whole month earlier. Must be the weather, it was way to warm to get into christmas mood. As always we started with a kids cookie, hoping that while they are busy…

Tarte Tatin

Certainly one of my favorite desserts, warm apples a hint of caramel and double cream…. yummy. But somehow I never mange to make it. Often I make the dough but then I am busy cooking dinner and have not time to cook the apples and…

Orange – chocolate cake

I’m quite proud on that cake. I took a rather basic cake recipe with dried figs (which I don’t  really fancy ) and adjusted it .  Quickly done but really good. 150 gr Butter at room temperature 125 gr sugar a pinch of salt 2…

Green tea sablé

This spring when I was in New York  I tried out a new place the Amai Tea and Bake House. You can get the address and my review in our travelguide.They do really interesting baking. Rich brownies made with botanical ingredients like lychee and and…