This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Dorie’s latest book, Dorie’s Anytime Cakes. Breton Buckwheat Butter Cake is kind of exactly what is sounds like – a butter cake made with (a tiny amount of) buckwheat – but is’ more like a cake/ cookie than an actual cake (it’s very flat). It it very … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is a cutie – baby buckwheat bars! Dorie says: The people of Brittany, on the western coast of France, call the flour they mill from buckwheat blé noir, or black wheat — the color is that dark. The flour we get is not always that dark, … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was a lovely cross between chocolate chip cookies and shortbread that *felt* slightly healthy because of the buckwheat flour. Dorie’s using an interesting technique of toasting the buckwheat flour gives these even more of a nuttiness than the buckwheat does on its own (hence the … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was made with a few mishaps along the way but the results were still delicious! Of these cookies, Dorie says: I doubled up on the two most important ingredients in these cookies, and I even doubled up on how you cra them. There are two kinds … Read more
The recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen this week was Buckwheat Madeleines which I was intrigued to try. David says they don’t get the characteristic hump so I kind of wondered why you would bake them in a madeleine pan (apart from that they look pretty!). I had a … Read more
This recipe was a happy accident of sorts. A couple of weeks ago it felt like my colleagues could use a pick-me-up after a particularly long and cold week and I wanted it to be a treat that everyone could eat, that I could make with the ingredients I have on hand. If I’m baking … Read more