CHOCOLATE SURPRISE

I called it a surprise as you can hardly call it a chocolate biscuit with a chocolate dollop on it.  It's a simple chocolate cookie, a chocolate ganache with orange licqueur and some sweetened orange peel on top.

PEACH CAKE

A peach cake made for my colleagues for my birthday.  After the cake cooled off I covered it with marmelade so it would not get dry.  It made the top quite sticky but it gave extra flavour to the fresh peaches on top. 

HOMEMADE CHERRY PIE

I had kilos of cherries from my grandmother's garden during the summer months so I decided to make a homemade cherry pie.  Made pastry from scratch and filled it with cherries and almonds. 

RASPBERRY PASTRY

I got this idea from one of my good food magazines, as always I did slightly change the recipe.  I didn't have fresh strawberries so I filled the pastry with frozen forest berries.  It's ideal with some fresh fruit and some vanilla ice cream.   

APPLE SPECULOOS PIE

A crusty sweet base, layers and layers of apples with a few spoons of apple sauce to make it moist and a crusty topping of speculoos.  Absolutely delish!   Speculoos is a cookie which is super popular in Belgium.

I also heard that they give it on the plane of an American airline but I'm not sure which one..

ALMOND CUPCAKE WITH MARMELADE

This cute almond cupake has a sweet soul, a soul of red marmelade ..

ALMOND COOKIE WITH ICING

A cookie base with a marsipan filling on top which is covered with a thin layer of icing.

MADELEINES

This is a classic French dessert, it's super easy to make but it looks so adorable in that typical madelein shape.

SUPER CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Chocolate cupcakes are not worth the name of 'chocolate' unless you put it full of chocolate chunks!

ALMOND CHERRY TART

Had lots of cherries from the garden of my grandparents so I found the perfect "house" for them; a base of almonds paste and puff pastry.  

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.