CHOCOLATE BROWNIE

This is an exploded round brownie, I know it's normally a square but I thought why not..  It also crumbled when I started to cut into it so that explains the exploded look. 

APPLE PIE

I must admit that I have a weak spot for apple dishes but this one is brilliant .. I could gladly eat the whole pie in one afternoon.   This actually means that I keep on opening and closing the fridge to attack it with my fork :-) 

ALMOND STRAWBERRY SLICE

A nice crumbly base with a marmelade filing and crushy almond topping.  Just a perfect team to completely make your fingers stick! 

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!