LEMON PIE

It doesn't always have to be sweet, made this for my work colleagues and they had it with some ice cream.   The juice of 4 lemons went in the pie so it was very lemony!   I must try it with limes as well as I'm sure it will slightly change the colour. 

PEACH CLAFOUTIS

I grew up with this "clafoutis aux peches".  I have great memories of my grandmother making this for me on a rainy afternoon after school or during school holidays.  The nice thing is that I can now make it for her and pay her back for all the times that she "had" to make it for me! :)  

It looks a bit of a mess but if you take a spoon full of sweet peach with the soft creamy filling you just close your eyes and you're in sweet heaven!

RHUBARB PIE

I got some lovely rhubarb from my grandmother's garden so I was (as good as) obliged to make a nice pie!    It's a crushy base with rhubarb and apple filing and crumble topping.    Definitely one of my favourites but I've always had a weak spot for rhubarb!   

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON FRUIT PIE

I just love kiwis to decorate on a fruit pie.  Especially the golden kiwis are great to combine with the green version.  In the middle I put some cherries.   The bottom are crumbles cookies and vanilla crem on top.  

MILLIONAIRE CHOCOLATE CAKE

I just had to add this item on my blog, the title alone speaks to the imagination!  it's a highly concentrated chocolate heavenly dessert.  A layer of light pastry and a delicious filling. 

CUPCAKE FEAST

Vanilla cupcakes with chocolate pieces and a marsipan cover.

Vanilla cupake with chocolate pieces and a vanilla topping with coloured sprinkles

nutella cupcakes

LITTLE CHERRY PIE - LITTLE APPLE PIE

This is the process how my little cherry pies started, they looked so cute!  It's homemade pastry baked in a little aluminium pot, filled with a nice marmelade and cherry filing. 

This is the apple version

Very easy and worth making the pasty yourself for this recipe!

VARIOUS COOKIES

vanilla cookie with a nutty crunch on top

vanilla cookie with a layer of marmelade and a scatering of almonds on top

vanilla cookie with almonds and sugar on top

vanilla cookies with almonds and sugar on top, slightly carmalised

SACHERTORTE

I am great fan of this Austrian dessert called Sachtertorte.  It is quite heavy but that means that you can share it with lots of friends!  It's a combination of rich chocolate cake with a layer of abricot marsipan in the middle and a chocolate ganache to cover it.  

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.

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!

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.