This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was a wonderful way to use up all those broken pieces of cookie dough I baked off from last time, when we made Double-Butter Double-Baked Petit Beurre Cookies. This is essentially a dessert parfait incorporating cookie bits, grapefruit curd (oh my, this is SO good!), roasted … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was one I thought would be a quick and easy recipe for a Sunday afternoon – but in fact, was one where you remember (again!) why it pays to read the recipe well in advance before you start out making something. These deceptively simple little … Read more
The Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi this week was a fairly simple whipped shortbread-y cookie that you might recognise as “the cookie from the blue tin (of Danish butter cookies)”. These tasted absolutely fantastic but I had a little trouble with the dough which is supposed to be piped out of a … Read more
The Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi this week was an apple matafan (“Mata-what?” According to Genius Kitchen, “a matafan is a thick crepe; there are a few variations. For centuries, this was a daily dish for the local peasant. Eaten in the morning, matafans sustained him/her through a long day of work … Read more
The Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi this week was more about assembly than actual cooking or baking per se. Pailles (meaning “straws”) are a puff pastry creation, not unlike palmiers where the trick is working with really cold pastry. I used an all-butter puff pastry from President’s Choice and my sheet of … Read more
You know you’re a dedicated Tuesdays with Dorie baker when you get off a 21 hour flight and you tell your mum “We need to bake a cake today so I can post about it tomorrow!” Thankfully, the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi this week was a super easy one, and one … Read more