Recipes for desserts
I do love chocolate cake and I have made several different versions of the last few years. This particular cake though is, perhaps, my favourite. It has such a rich and satisfying flavour that a very first mouthful will have you coming back for more. That rich flavour comes from the cocoa in the cake […]
When I recently, made some no churn mint and chocolate ice cream I mentioned that I had some ideas for other flavours. So this recipe, for No Churn Limoncello Ice Cream is one of those flavours. Using limoncello, which is a an Italian lemon flavoured liqueur, is a great way to make the ice cream […]
Whoopies Pies originated in the USA during the first quarter of the 20th century, according to what I have read. I have made them a few time and decided to try them again, but this time varying the filling. Most recipes I have seen use marshmallow fluff and a lot of icing sugar, as well […]
For something easy, on a hot summer day, I decided to make some no churn ice cream. I saw the idea in an Ocado magazine and it used fresh mint leaves and some chocolate chopped into pieces. I thought it sounded very good, so I decided I would try that flavour as my first attempt. […]
When my online grocery shopping was delivered last week there was the Ocado magazine included in it. That magazine had a number of recipes that are suitable for summertime. One of them was Lemon Posset Tart, which used hazelnuts in the tart crust. I have made lemon posset many times, it is a rich, silky […]
A traditional British dessert, hailing from the town of Bakewell, but different to the Bakewell Pudding. When I first started my blog, back in 2014, one of my early posts was for Bakewell Tart. The tart is traditional in the UK and has a few variants. In the stores you can readily by individual ones […]
A delicious raspberry mousse sitting on a crispy biscuit base. I wanted to make some lovely little raspberry mousse domes, with a biscuit base. To start that process I created my Crisp & Crunchy Anytime Biscuits, and my previous blog entry shows the recipe for those. The biscuits will form the base for my mousse […]
Grated shortcake pastry baked on top of apples for a variant on Tarte Tatin. Simply delicious. When I first started baking one of the very first things I tried was a recipe from BBC Food for Tarte Tatin. I was attracted to it by the fact that it uses a lovely buttery pastry, grated over […]
Strawberries and mascarpone are a match made in heaven. Put them with a tender, crunchy pastry and you have a surefire winner. I wanted to make a nice and easy tart that would easy to make and would be great as a dessert, particularly on a warm spring or summer day. For that I decided […]
Homemade puff pastry, filled with sweet apples makes for a lovely snacking treat. Having made a nice big block of puff pastry I decided to use some of it for making apple turnovers. These are very easy to make, once you have the puff pastry. Of course you don’t have to make your own puff […]