Recipes for desserts
I just love a Bounty, from time to time. As an exercise in indulgence I thought I would try to make my own. Although not really baking, since nothing goes in the oven, I have included them in my blog as they fit nicely as a sweet snack, with lots of lovely coconut and chocolate. […]
After the success of my puff pastry for the Pithiviers I decided to make some more, and this time to use it to make Mille Feuille, known in the USA as Napoleon Pastry. Traditionally the layers of crispy puff pastry are filled with creme patissier. However since some of the ‘tasters’ are not so keen […]
French Apple Tart is a lovely dessert, with the soft apple slices on top of an apple sauce, with the crumbly and buttery pastry. I found several good recipes, but opted for one on a favourite site Joyofbaking.com That site has a host of very nice recipes, and videos too. I am never too […]
Harking back to the 1970s makes one think of a firm favourite of those days, Black Forest Gateau. It was almost a staple of the diet in those days, served in almost every restaurant. Although it is not so popular these days that doesn’t mean that it isn’t a very tasty dessert. I took a […]
It seems that Tarte Au Sucre, or Sugar Pie is different between France and Belgium and North Ameria. In France and Belgium, from the recipes I have read they tend to be a brioche type bread recipe, whereas in North America it appears that a shortcrust pastry is preferred. For my attempt I found a […]
Bread Pudding! That is something that brings back memories of childhood. Being a heavy, stodgy and sweet pudding, made, usually, from stale bread. It is simply lovely. I decided to make it, from as traditional a recipe as I could find. I had to search around, since many recipes, particularly those from USA, which called […]
When I first started this blog the very first item I mentioned was Tarte Tatin. However I hadn’t anticipated doing a blog when I first tried the recipe, so I had no photograph to post. I did promise to make it again, at some time and then post a photo. So today I did just […]
I found a recipe in Le Cordon Bleu’s Chocolate Bible, for a Chocolate Tartlet, with a soft chocolate filling and topped with a chocolate ganache. I reproduce the recipe below, or you can find it on Le Corden Bleu website. I am never entirely successful with my pastry, it always shrinks somewhat, when in […]
I came up with this recipe for a Mini Chocolate Gateaux by mixing parts of two or three different recipes together. The idea was to make individual cakes, with straight sides, so a muffin tin was not an option. I acquired a 12 hole pan, with the same diameter as muffin tins, but with straight […]
Having produced rather more mincemeat than I needed, yesterday, when I doubled the ingredients in a recipe, I decided to just use some to try out a mince tart. I used a tried and tested recipe for shortcrust pastry, and then filled it with the mincemeat that I didn’t have jars for. Finally I […]