This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Caramel-Pear and Five-Spice Upside-Down Cake. Dorie’s version serves 10 (!) and includes Chinese Five Spice that flavours a cake that has “the spring of a sponge cake but the sturdiness of a farmstead loaf cake”. I love a good upside-down … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Caramel Apple Crisp from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie. As I was reading the recipe for Dorie’s version it struck me as familiar and I wondered if I had made this before. In fact, a couple of years ago I made my own version of this – Salted … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Java Mini Mads from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie. Java Mini Mads are coffee-flavoured madeleines made in a more-accessible mini muffin tin (<<< affiliate link but this is my “go-to” mini muffin tin!). Madeleines are typically baked in shell-shaped moulds (<<< affiliate link but these are very good) but, … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Scones Pudding from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie and uses leftover scones from the Buttermilk Scones recipe. Dorie says if you love bread pudding you will love this. Well, um, I *don’t* love bread pudding (my parents do though) so I wasn’t too fussed about making this. I … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. A flognarde (flow-nyard) is a custardy French dessert of fruit — plums, prunes, pears or berries — baked in a batter that most resembles the mix you’d use to make crepes. No matter what fruit you use, you’ll enjoy the … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is S’mores Ice Cream Cake from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie – an epic dessert that I wasn’t sure I would be able to make in the “canicule” (heatwave) we’re having in Southwest France right now. I had a little bit of hope as temperatures dropped last week for a … Read more