This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and is the first thing I’ve baked or cooked for over a week. Yup, these are strange times indeed and I’m JUST settling into my new normal which involves: – self-isolating after travelling home from Australia. That means NO […]
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Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Carrément Chocolat, The Simple Loaf
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is Dorie’s simple version of a Pierre Hermé classic – the Carrément Chocolate cake. “Carrément” is a useful French word meaning (accoring to Dorie)”completely, absolutely, incontrovertibly, wholly good (or bad)” (i.e. really!) and Hermé used it as a play on words to name his intensely […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Touch-of-Crunch Chocolate Cake
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is a super simple cake that tastes much more complex than its short list of ingredients suggests… It doesn’t even look super impressive when you make it… It’s one of those flourless cakes that rises beautifully in the oven (yes, it’s baked in a pie […]
French Fridays: Tarte Tropézienne from My Paris Kitchen
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen – Tarte Tropézienne – is one I’ve made before, for Tuesdays with Dorie (from Baking Chez Moi) back in 2016. It’s basically a giant brioche bun filled with pastry cream (or a variation) and topped with pearl sugar. I’ve actually tasted […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Pistachio and Raspberry Financiers
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is a favourite sweet treat – financiers. These little tea cakes are typically made with almond flour although more and more you see them made with different nuts flours – in this case, pistachios. Dorie, like me, uses mini muffin tins to make financiers in, […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Double Chocolate Marble Cake
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was a Double Chocolate Marble Cake which sounds a lot more complicated than it really was to make! This batter is similar to a pound cake, but at the last minute, you divide the batter in half and add melted white chocolate to one half […]
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