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Tag Archives: dessert
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 – 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 – Flourless chocolate cake with Arabic coffee ice cream
I did a trial version of this month’s Daring Bakers challenge half way through the month. I made 3/5 of the recipe (as in I used 3 eggs instead of 5). This was plenty to fill two 15 cm (6 … Continue reading
Posted in Desserts
Tagged cakes, cardamom, chocolate, coffee, Daring Bakers, dessert, gluten-free, ice cream
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Daring Bakers – Tuile with rosemary and honey crème fraîche panna cotta
Even though I knew more or less what I was going to make for this month’s Daring Bakers challenge I waited till the last days to make it. Not a good idea since we’re leaving tomorrow morning for a weekend … Continue reading
Posted in Desserts
Tagged crème fraîche, Daring Bakers, dessert, honey, panna cotta, rosemary
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Daring Bakers – Entremet
I wish I finished this month’s Daring Baker’s challenge on the day I intended: on Christmas eve. This was the evening I invited family for a Christmas diner. I already did some preparations to make it but just before going … Continue reading
Posted in Desserts
Tagged chocolate, chocolate mousse, cinnamon, Daring Bakers, dessert, marzipan, orange
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Ispahan ice cream
Ever since I tasted Pierre Herme wonderful Ispahan combination of rose, litchi and raspberry I was sure I wanted to make another dish with that combination. I have to add that I never actually ate PH’s own creations but I … Continue reading
Coconut pudding and pandan jelly train
Today is the first day of World Breastfeeding Week in most parts of the world. To celebrate and as a reminder of the Got Milk? event I’m hosting I made these little train shaped puddings. But first a little more … Continue reading
Mango mouse mirror cake with coconut cake base
My best friend had her birthday last Friday, no real party just a little get together of four friends. Of course I volunteered to make a birthday cake. C preferred a fruity cake without buttercream and without chocolate. That sort … Continue reading
Got milk?
The first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week. World Breastfeeding Week is an annual event to promote breastfeeding on a global scale. (for Dutch readers: Wereld Borstvoeding Week will be later this year, in week 40). So why would … Continue reading
Red grape and fennel seed clafoutis
I started out making a clafoutis with raspberries and pistachio nuts that I flavoured with rosewater. I used the recipe from my Larousse and divided it by three. The dish I used was a little too big so the clafoutis … Continue reading
Lemon and coconut rice pudding layered with pineapple and banana
Barbara of winosandfoodies is supporting LIVESTRONG Day 2008 by hosting A Taste of Yellow. LIVESTRONG Day is the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s one-day initiative to raise awareness and funds for the cancer fight. And this year it will occur on Tuesday, … Continue reading
Ginger and orange semolina pudding with blood orange sauce
Thought I’d try out another recipe with my new favorite combination of ginger and orange. Last time I combined blood orange with ginger syrup. This time I used fresh ginger as well as ginger syrup and orange zest as well … Continue reading
Blood orange with ginger syrup and black pepper
(Blood)orange and ginger is my new favorite combination! Never knew how good they tasted together until I ‘accidentally’ tried this combination. I had two blood oranges lying around waiting to finally be used. My idea was to cut out the … Continue reading
WTSIM #12- Coconut and coffee terrine
Sometimes you have a great idea for a recipe but when you make it, it doesn’t turn out completely how you wanted…completely being an understatement here. When I saw that this month’s WTSIM was all about terrines I made a … Continue reading
SHF #38 – Amandel griesmeelpudding met bessensapsaus (Almond semolina pudding with red currant sauce)
Busy times over here, finished my second exam of three this week….big sigh….did ok (enough) on both. Friday last exam. Also Friday A’s father and brother are coming for a pre-Christmas dinner. We’re leaving for Croatia on Sunday so we’ll … Continue reading
SHF #37 – Carrot ganache covered and clementine curd filled petit four
This was not what I had in mind for the November edition of SHF. But if plan A fails, plan B just has to do. When I read that Leslie at ‘definitely not martha‘ wanted to see beta carotene packed … Continue reading
Daring Bakers – Bostini cream pie
Happy to share with you my first Daring Bakers challenge…Bostini cream pie! Not that I had ever heard of Bostini cream pie or Boston cream pie for that matter. Apparently it is a creamy custard topped with orange chiffon which … Continue reading
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Tagged cakes, chiffon cake, chocolate, custard, Daring Bakers, dessert, orange
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