Making Cherry Clafoutis is easy and it is a delicious and incredibly aromatic dessert.
Apple Tart #Ina Fridays
With Julia Child recommending 73 layers for regular pâte feuilletée and 730 layers for pâte feuilletée fine (in Volume II of her Mastering the Art of French Cookingtextbook) , grab those car keys and buy some frozen sheets. Else it will be a long haul in the kitchen.
Classic Chocolate Truffles
What is it about a sphere of chocolate that is so alluring, seductive, enticing! I am speaking about the good old chocolate truffle and it’s captivating charm. Is it the fact that it is made from chocolate? That would be reason enough for me to be,(ahem!) hooked to it. Or is it that it resembles, in the looks department, to the epicurean truffles from Périgord? Or is it because at some point in History both the chocolate and the lumpy little fungi have been associated with being an aphrodisiac? Is it all of the above? Chocolate truffles originated in …
Bienenstich Kuchen – Bee Sting Cake
“The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes – nothing was as calming as creaming butter – and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she’d been and where she was going. Everything was fine.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Maybe This Time
Swedish Princesstarta : Daring Bakers
In a “celebration” of past Daring Baker and Daring Cook challenges, Lisa challenged all of us to search through the Daring Kitchen archives and pick any one we’d like! Since the Swedish Princesstarta has been on my mind for months if not years, I knew I finally just had to do it. This challenge was actually posted by Korena of Korena in the Kitchen in May, but I was not able to finish it then. It has been a challenge to actually finish things on time, after the car accident. Things that took me moments to do, now take an overwhelming amount …