Les Petits Chefs (pâtissiers) make strawberry yoghurt cupcakes with strawberry cream cheese frosting

Want to make your own? Get the recipe here! Last week the Petits Chefs baking club made cupcakes! But not any ordinary cupcakes – strawberry yoghurt cupcakes with a strawberry cream cheese frosting! This was a recipe I developed a few years ago for National Cupcake Day and as I was looking back at my … Read more

Tuesdays with Dorie: (not) Fig and Goat Cheese Tart from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Fig and Goat Cheese Tart sounded fabulous to me – and a couple of weeks ago, we had plenty of figs available in our produce stores… Fast forward to this past weekend when I could not find any so I went with one of … Read more

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