Featured Recipe
Raspberry and Coconut Truffles
Sunday, July 13, 2025 |
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These nutty fruity truffles are a welcome change from the beloved chocolate truffles. The pink truffles are also ideal as a gift. They are made with almonds, desiccated coconut, coconut oil and raspberries, lightly sweetened with agave syrup. If you like, finish them with a coating of white chocolate for an extra layer of decadence.
Haupia - Hawaiian Coconut Pudding
Friday, July 11, 2025 |
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Haupia is a popular traditional Hawaiian dessert made from coconut milk, cornstarch and sugar. This naturally gluten free coconut pudding is very simple and takes just 10 minutes to make and doesn't require an oven. The silky, creamy haupia tastes fantastic and have a fine consistency somewhere between pudding and panna cotta. Traditionally, the haupia are cubed and served plain. But you can also garnish them with fresh fruit or fruit sauces (I used mango here). If you are going to serve them in glasses, garnish them with some caramelised pineapples and/or toasted sesames since both are important ingredients in Hawaiian cuisine.
Raspberry Meringue Tarts
Monday, July 07, 2025 |
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A highlight of French pastry! The buttery sweet shortcrust pastry base is filled with a velvety, fruity raspberry curd, which is then covered with airy, delicate meringue flamed off with a kitchen blowtorch at the very end. If desired, garnish them with some chopped pistachios or crush some freeze-dried raspberries over the top. This tart not only tastes delicious, it also looks elegant: a great dessert idea for celebration or just because.
Angel Food Cake with Blueberry Glaze
Thursday, July 03, 2025 |
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This timeless angel food cake with a creamy fruity glaze is tender and light as cloud. Enjoy it plain, with seasonal fruit and a dollop of homemade whipped cream, or with a berry glaze. This cake is sure to wow everyone at dinner. The recipe is actually pretty easy, the only tedious task is to separate 12 eggs and the only special piece of equipment you’ll need is a angel food tube pan which helps give angel food cake its lift thanks to the high sides and center hole. Use the egg yolks to make omelette, lemon curd or ice cream.
Tahini Raspberry Crumb Cake
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 |
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This nutty fruity crumb cake is perfect for brunch, as a dessert or an afternoon pick-me-up. They are scrumptious by themselves, with some clotted cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Instead of butter, I used tahini to make the streusel, and sweetened the whole cake with a mix of date syrup and erythritol. If you want to make this gluten free, replace white spelt flour with oat flour.
Lavender Cupcakes
Saturday, May 31, 2025 |
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Light and floral lavender cupcakes are fun, delicious and beautiful! If you are looking for a light dessert for entertaining, these moist and light cupcakes are truly perfect. The cake base is lavender flavoured, sweetened with honey and erythritol and crowned with a cream cheese frosting.
While lavender plays an important role in cosmetics, the plant is often used to flavour dishes in Mediterranean cuisine. They can be found in teas and lemonades, in marmalade, in cakes or as a special flavouring in savoury meat dishes. Conjure up a Provence ambience with these delicate cupcakes and enjoy the extraordinary combination of flavours.
Chocolate Blueberry Cake
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 |
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Chocolate cake is probably on many hobby bakers' must-make list. But if a simple chocolate cake isn’t interesting enough for you, you can simply pimp up the cake recipe with a few fruits - for example with delicious blueberries. This chocolate blueberry cake is so quick and easy to make! The super moist sponge with chocolate tastes so delicious with fresh berries. It is perfect at any time of year, but especially in summer when the blueberries are at their juiciest. However, the cake also works perfectly with other seasonal fruit or alternatively with dried fruit. This cake is a hit at any party, over a cosy coffee with friends and family or as the highlight of a festive brunch. Fresh blueberries bring freshness and antioxidants to the cake, while dark chocolate adds that little something extra.
Matcha Cranberry Brownies
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 |
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Brownies are the perfect little snack when you're craving something sweet but don't want a big cake. This delicious cake is quick to make, just as quick to vanish and so versatile that you can always try new variations. And who says brownies always have to be brown and made with dark chocolate? Exactly, and that's why I am creating a green version today with Japanese matcha, white chocolate and optional dried cranberries. Japanese matcha gives the baked goods a mild herbal note and the lovely green colour. You can bake them with regular green tea powder, but it doesn't typically produce the vibrant green colour, instead the cake will turn yellowish or dull green. Don’t over bake the brownie. The longer you bake a brownie, the more cake-like and less fudgy it becomes. If the centre of brownie is still sticky and soft, then it is perfect.
Puddingbrezeln – Vanilla Pudding Pretzels
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 |
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Puddingbrezel, Puddingteilchen, or Vanilleplunder is a sweet pretzel variant enormously popular in Germany, especially in the Rhineland. The Danish pastry is twisted into a pretzel and then filled with plenty of homemade vanilla pudding and crumbled raspberries. Feel free to use other types of fruit. After baking, it is glazed with apricot jam, just like from the bakery. Or maybe even better than from the bakery. Enjoy them as a snack, breakfast or serve them as a side dish with coffee.
Danish pastry is made from yeast leavened dough, so it’s slightly different from the yeast-free puff pastry. The key step in the production process is to incorporate the butter into the dough by folding it in and repeatedly folding and rolling it out. This process forms countless thin layers that rise during baking and create a crispy, airy structure. It is a bit more time-consuming, but I promise you, it's so worth it.
Pineapple Coconut Rings
Friday, April 25, 2025Apricot Oat Slices with White Chocolate
Friday, February 14, 2025 |
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Whether as a snack between meals, with an afternoon coffee or as an office treat: these apricot oat slices taste great and are a delight! They are easy to transport and can also be made in advance as they stay fresh in the fridge for several days. Conveniently, you don't need to use the oven, just chill them. Oat flakes, dried apricots, coconut flakes and almond meal are not only filling but also nutritious. A silky coating of Lindt white chocolate provides the fun gourmet factor. The subtly hot and fruity chilli thread are the perfect addition to elevate chocolate taste, adding a delightful kick to each bite.
Garibaldi Biscuits
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 |
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Garibaldi biscuits (unkindly called 'squashed flies' by children), named to honour Italian General Giuseppe Garibaldi, who fought for the unification of Italy in the 19th century, are made by sandwiching the dried fruit with thin shortcrust pastry. Then the dough is sliced into rectangles and baked until light golden. The chocolate glaze is completely optional. You can simply dust some Demerara sugar on top after brushing with egg white. If sultanas and currants aren’t to your taste, use your favourite dried fruit – just make sure that you cut it up to the size of a currant so it bonds suitably to the biscuit dough.