15.1.2023
Christmas and Christmas cookies are inevitably over, so it’s time for a new recipe. After all the cookies I wanted something creamy, fruity and chocolatey. I found some sour cherries in the pantry and got the idea for a four-layer tart. Sour Cherry Mascarpone Chocolate Tart combines everything one could want – cocoa tart shell, a jelly sour cherry layer,…
20.3.2022
Who wouldn’t know Snickers. I decided to make a homemade version of them, in the shape of a tart, just without the marshmallow layer. My Snickers tart consists of a traditional vanilla dough, a sweet caramel layer, a layer of salted peanuts, and chocolate with the addition of peanut butter. I reached for the traditional “sweet” caramel, not the salted…
9.1.2022
If you’ve already run out of Christmas cookies, it’s time for a new dessert. January calls for something simple and fresh, in my case it’s citrus. I’m sure you’ve heard of a French lemon tart, but I decided to give it a twist – I used blood oranges instead of lemons and omitted the meringue altogether. Blood Orange Tart consists…
5.9.2021
I had lots of plums this year, but by the time I got to make a cake and post it on the blog, I was running low on them. Hopefully you still have some left on a tree and you can make Plum and Vanilla Custard Tart with them. The combination of plums and vanilla isn’t that common, but that’s…
15.8.2021
Blueberry season is here so I wanted to take advantage of their bold purple color. I use wild blueberries in my desserts, they have a deep purple color so desserts have a lovely bold color too. Some of you have texted me that your blueberry desserts ended up with a bland brown color and not the purple one. The reason…
20.6.2021
This year, although a bit late, it´s already a strawberry season for me. I combined them, unconventionally, with another seasonal product, namely elderflower syrup. Since I already have elderflowers in my garden, it would be a shame not to use them. The combination of sweet elderflower syrup and fresh strawberries is perfectly suited to this time of year. Strawberry Elderflower…
14.3.2021
I was thinking about this combination of raspberries and coconut for a long time. I knew the coconut mousse was so good that I would use it in somewhere else too. Coconut Mousse Raspberry Tart consists of crispy coconut dough, raspberry jelly and coconut mousse. It’s my invention, where I combined the raspberry jelly layer from the recipe for Raspberry…
31.1.2021
Sometimes one is not in a mood for baking and traditional sheet cakes are too ordinary. Something simple but also something that will intrigue your guests is needed. For example, chocolate mousse – it is easy to make and you just have to wait a couple minutes for the chocolate to cool down, otherwise it’s a quick dessert. Hazelnut Chocolate…
27.9.2020
This time comes a little unconventional recipe for me – the savory one. Since there were a few last pears on the tree a few days ago; and after the weather that is about to come, I doubt there will be any; I decided to try the combination of pears and a savory quiche or tart. Quiche, or a savory…
14.6.2020
This year’s strawberry season is a bit late, but I finally have strawberries, so I can bake. Strawberries create a great combination with white chocolate, both in taste and visually, therefore I made Strawberry White Chocolate Tart. The tart is interesting in color – as it contains brown, white and red color – and in taste thanks to the combination…
1.3.2020
Banoffee pie is a well-known dessert, made with no-bake biscuit crust, filling made from cooked sweetened condensed milk, fresh bananas and whipped heavy cream. It is a simple not time-consuming tart or pie, the longest it takes to cook condensed milk. Thanks to condensed milk and bananas, it is delicious and sweet so there is no need to add sugar…
2.2.2020
It´s been a long time since I made something with coffee and this “no-fruit” winter period is perfect for non-seasonal recipes. I think coffee should be combined with chocolate so I made Chocolate Espresso Tart. It is made with traditional cocoa kneaded dough, dark chocolate filling and fluffy espresso coffee filling. Chocolate filling is actually the variation of traditional chocolate…
22.9.2019
It got a bit cold so I already collected all the fruits from my garden, just to be sure. I collected pears as well and it would be shame not to use them. I decided to make Pear Speculoos Tart. If you ever tried Lotus or Speculoos cookies you know that they have a pleasant caramel and spicy taste. This…
8.9.2019
Plums are already falling from trees so something needs to be done with them. For example, this Plum Almond Crumble Tart. It is made with kneaded dough with cinnamon, fresh plums and sprinkled with crumble, which is not ordinary since it composes almond flakes. Firstly, you bake the dough in the oven for a couple minutes so it is lightly…
4.8.2019
Blackberry season is on and maybe you were also wondering what kind of a cake to make with them, but besides a traditional bundt cake, pound cake and muffins, you didn´t get any other idea. I always get this block with blackberries, but mostly with currants and gooseberries. Therefore, when I saw a recipe for Blackberry Coconut Tart in a…
21.7.2019
I don´t have my own apricots this year, they all fell from the tree or the tree had some infection, I don´t know. At least there is still someone who is willing to give a few of them to me or I can buy them on a market. I was thinking what to do with them and I eventually made…
5.5.2019
Since seasonal fruit is nowhere to be found yet, I use my stocks from last summer and shop deals. I found a whole box of kiwis at my place, kiwi which no one wanted to eat, so they had to be used in a cake. After all, everything I put in a cake is eventually eaten. I looked at websites…
14.4.2019
Easter is almost here as well as the time when we think what to bake. If you don´t have time for long-preparation cakes, this Easter Pink Raspberry Tart is right for you. It is made with traditional kneaded dough, jam, mascarpone whipped cream layer and chocolate Easter eggs. Besides its simplicity and quickness of its preparation, it has another advantage…
