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, […]
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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 […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Saint-Pierre Poppy Seed Cake
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was the perfect re-entry into baking after vacation. Basically an orange-poppyseed loaf, this recipe was developed by Dorie for her husband Michael, after he and a friend brought some back from a café (after which the loaf is named) and asked her to replicate it. […]
French Fridays: Orange pound cake from My Paris Kitchen
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was actually a Bay Leaf Pound Cake with an orange glaze but I opted for a plain orange pound cake that David suggests. The bay leaf version involved infusing butter with bay leaves for a while and I thought that apart […]
Pumpkin Granola Skillet Snack Cake
This post is produced in partnership with Le Creuset Canada Have you seen #lenouveaubleu – Le Creuset’s latest blue colour? I recently received a couple of these pieces to work with, including the Iron handle cast iron skillet in Blueberry and was excited to test it out. Of course, with the lovely smooth black interior […]
French Fridays: Madeleines from My Paris Kitchen
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was madeleines – and, in fact, I made madeleines twice in a day – once with a parent-child cooking class and once making David’s recipe. (my 7-13 year old kid bakers did a great job in my class didn’t they?) Madeleines […]
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