I was recently reading through an old recipe book that I brought back from Canada last year, 150 Delicious Squares. This book is by Jean Paré and dates back to the early 1980s. I read through the book and quite liked the look of several recipes. I also noted that almost half the recipes included […]
Viennese Cookies, or Sablés viennois, are a lovely buttery cookie/biscuit similar to spritz cookies. But they are piped into shapes, rather than pressed. The recipe is very simple and I have tried it a couple of times, in different guises, to see whether it affected how well the shapes were retained. In both cases the […]
Having made an orange and almond cake I had the idea for a similar one, but with coconut and pineapple instead. This would be a moist cake with that lovely coconut flavour with a good helping of crushed and pureed pineapple added in. Now I wondered whether I could just use the same volume of […]
I have tried to make macarons before, and they were reasonable good. Today I decided to try to make some more, this time Chocolate Macarons. There seem to be two ways to prepare macarons, one involves whipping egg whites to stiff peaks and then to work them into the dry ingredients, which are ground almonds […]