This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and is one I’ve had my eye on since I first got the book! Triple-Layer Parsnip and Cranberry Cake is like a fancy version of a carrot cake (made with parsnips, brilliant!) filled with tart cranberry sauce and luscious […]
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Cook the Book Fridays: Blueberry Buttermilk Bundt Cake
NEW: I’ve brought my cooking classes online – check out the lineup for September here! This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and was the perfect recipe for the punnet of wild blueberries I received in my organic fruit and veg box this week. Because they […]
Cook the Book Fridays: Last of the Bunch Banana Bundt
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 […]
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 […]
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