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Daring Bakers – Swiss swirl ice cream cake
A quick post from our vacation in the Netherlands to bring you this month’s Daring Bakers challenge. A pretty cake to make indeed this month! Even though I’ve made a similar cake 2 years ago (without ice cream but with … Continue reading
Daring bakers – Chocolate pavlova
The dessert that nearly wasn’t, late but made! This month’s DB challenge was chocolate pavlova, the recipe used a mascarpone chocolate mousse-y cream and a creamy crème anglaise based sauce. In my opinion the amount of sauce is way, way, … Continue reading
Daring Bakers РPiece mont̩e
Finally a Daring Bakers challenge that I made before the reveal date 🙂 This month’s challenge was to make a Piece Montée (also called croquembouche). I made the cake for my middle son’s birthday party so I wanted to go … Continue reading
Daring Bakers – Cardamom and honey pudding
Ok, so this didn’t turn out the way it was supposed to as you can see. This month’s Daring Bakers challenge was to make a British steamed suet pudding. Using suet was optional, I ended up not using it because … Continue reading
Daring Bakers – Blood orange tian
This month’s Daring Bakers challenge was an orange tian. I had never heard of tian before so as far as that was concerned the challenge was new. The components for this dessert – pâte sablée, stabilized whipped cream, orange marmalade … Continue reading
Daring Bakers – Tiramisù
When this month’s Daring Bakers challenge was announced I have to admit I wasn’t thrilled. I’m probably the only person in the world that doesn’t like tiramisù. But after reading the recipe I started getting more and more interested in … Continue reading
Posted in Desserts
Tagged cocoa, coffee, dessert, espresso, lady fingers, mascarpone, zabaglione
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Daring Bakers – Gingerbread house
On the last day of the year I bring you this month’s Daring Bakers challenge 🙂 A challenge much to my liking I must say: making of a gingerbread house. A tradition that is not Dutch (or Croatian) at all. … Continue reading
Daring Bakers -Cannoli
I’m pretty happy with myself, finished this month’s Daring Bakers challenge on time AND finished writing about it in time to post it on the 27th! So this month we made cannoli. Not something that was very high on my … Continue reading
Daring Bakers – Lebkuchen macarons with dark chocolate ganache
Finally I made macarons 🙂 and all because they were last month’s Daring Bakers Challenge. Like the last few months I’m late in posting but this time I did actually finish the macarons on the 27th but still had to … Continue reading
Posted in Cookies (sweet)
Tagged almonds, cookies, Daring Bakers, gluten-free, lactose-free
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Daring Bakers – Puff pastry
Another late Daring Baker challenge… This month’s challenge was to make puff pastry and make some vols au vent with it. Even though there’s no picture of the vol au vents I did make them but they didn’t rise very … Continue reading
Got Milk? – Round-up
I’m sorry about the delay in posting this round-up. Life has been very busy with moving into our new house and my eldest son going to school for the first time. All is well in Vienna in our new house. … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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Daring Bakers – Dobos torta
Late again for the Daring Bakers challenge but not as much as last month 😉 Last weekend friends from the Netherlands stayed with us. Wanted to have the Dobos torta ready before they came on Friday but only managed to … Continue reading
Lemon loaf cake with rosemary and honey syrup
The heat was a bit less the last few days here in Croatia so I managed to make this loaf cake for Got Milk? to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week. I’m glad that my little shmoopy isn’t too bothered with the … Continue reading
Daring Bakers – Milan cookie truffles a la peche Melba
I’m terribly, terribly late with this month’s Daring Bakers challenge…I should rephrase that: last month’s challenge! I made the Milan cookies one day late but they didn’t turn out the way I needed but the heat here in Croatia (where … Continue reading
Posted in Chocolates
Tagged chocolate, chocolates, Daring Bakers, ganache, peach, raspberries
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Ginger and orange semolina pudding with blood orange sauce
Today is the first day of World Breastfeeding Week and like last year I’m organizing a food blogging event to celebrate. Joining is easy, just make a sweet dish that contains milk (either dairy or non-dairy). Could be as easy … Continue reading
Got Milk? – a food blogging event
In two weeks time the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is celebrating another World Breastfeeding Week to commemorate the Innocenti Declaration (1990). World Breastfeeding Week was first celebrated in 1992. Now it involves more than 120 countries and is … Continue reading
Of brombeeren and other Viennese impressions…
We’ve been in Vienna for over 2 weeks now and seem to have settled in pretty well. A started working a week and a half ago so I’ve had to entertain all three boys by myself since then, which means … Continue reading
We arrived in Vienna
Just a little note to let you know that we arrived in Vienna. J and I Monday evening by plane and the rest of the boys Tuesday late afternoon by car. We’re still settling into our temporary appartment (still enough … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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He’s finally here!
Finally no. 3 is born :))) After a few days (and nights) of contraction (unfortunately painful but not serious enough to dilate) and a few nights with pretty much no sleep our third son J. was born on Wednesday morning … Continue reading
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