Sunday, April 25, 2010

CHERRY LAYER CAKE

This cake is a combination of layers of cake with marmelade, cherries and whipped cream on top with sprinkles chocolate.

JAM COOKIES

These swirls are the result of a vanilla biscuit and strawberry jam. I made a swirl with the dough and put half a teaspoon of jam in the middle. You can be very creative with the middle as you can put several kinds of jam or chocolate in there.

VANILLA CUPCAKE WITH GANACHE


I used my basic vanilla cupcake recipe, put a few cherries on top of the dough so whilst they baked they would end up in the middle of the cupcake. After cooling them off I covered them with a shiny chocolate ganache.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

APPLE PASTRY


This a very popular and supereasy pastry dessert. You take a sheet of puff pastry, you cut out circles, fill it with apple saus (or whatever takes your fancy) and close it to create half moon shapes. Make sure that you close it properly or the filling will run out. It is also very important that your filling is cold. Once closed you cover it with egg yolk and sprinkle over some white granulated sugar. After about 15-20 minutes in the oven it looks crunchy and brown, ready to eat hot or cold!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

CARAMEL SLICES



This is a combination of crushed biscuits with melted butter, homemade caramel and a layer of melted chocolate. You can best compare it to a twix bar and I just love the view of the layers and then the caramel that just drips over the biscuit layer.

SHORTBREAD (with peanut butter)







Shortbread is super easy to make and is very versatile. The two first pictures are shortbread covered with peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles and the two other pictures are plain just covered with some white granulated sugar.