Gluten-free carrot cake cookies filled with cream cheese frosting on a sheet of parchment paper.

Carrot cake cookies

Today’s recipe is a result of stumbling across an old post on my blog (like, REALLY OLD, from April 2010!) where I had written about making the “Inside Out Carrot Cake Cookies” from Epicurious and I remembered how much I loved them. You know, sometimes you want a piece of carrot cake but making a … Read more

Slice of No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Icebox Cake on a plate with a fork

No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Icebox Cake

What to do with a fridge full of berries, cream cheese and whipping cream leftover from a cooking class (did you know I’ve brought my classes online – details here) and a container of butter cookies I needed to re-test? Well, I figured I could make another batch of the no-bake Mixed Berry Cheesecake Trifle … Read more

Individual serves of No-Bake Mixed Berry Cheesecake Trifle served in a small glass dish

No-Bake Mixed Berry Cheesecake Trifle

It feels like I’ve been cooking up a storm these days… Because I’m running virtual cooking camp 3x week, it means I have to be organised at least a week in advance with recipes, some of which need tweaking or re-testing and a few of which I am still making videos for as part of … Read more

Tuesdays with Dorie Greenspan Cream Cheese and Toast Tartlets on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Cream Cheese and Toast Tartlets

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is a curious sounding one: sweet shortcrust pastry filled with a cheesecake-like filling and topped with tiny cubes of bread that have been pan fried in butter then tossed with a little cinnamon, cocoa powder and sugar – kind of like a crunchy breakfast cereal. … Read more

Tuesdays with Dorie Greenspan Sweet Cream Cheese Honey Nut Wafers on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Sweet Cream Cheese Honey Nut Wafers

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was one I freestyled a little bit and am not sure it went as well as it would have had I followed the recipe. This is a sweet/ savoury cookie – a little bit of both and you could serve it for an apéro or with … Read more

French Fridays: Savoury cheesecake with ratatouille

Happy (French) Friday! I’m in the last throes of signing off on bits and pieces on my manuscript (we’re at the index!) and starting to think ahead to marketing and publicity (choosing recipes to share with media outlets eventually) and my head has been deep in recipes this week. While I love the baking component … Read more