Easy Recipes for Home Cooks
This is one of my favourite tea loaf, naturally sweetened with dates and studded with crunchy walnuts. It is dense and wonderfully moist, perfect with a cuppa. Like most old fashioned cake, it is the kind of treat you make for yourself because of it’s simplicity and takes no time […]
If you love coffee, like I do, then this is the loaf cake for you. Delightfully moist tender crumb, with chopped nuts and hints of fragrant spices- cinnamon and cardamom. Coffee flavour in the cake and more in the Coffee Glaze. I’m one of those who doesn’t wake up properly […]
This is my version of the spiced Dutch Almond Fingers called Gevulde Speculaas . ”Gevulde” is Dutch for stuffed and these finger shortcrust cookies certainly are – with Marzipan. When baked , the Marzipan melts into the cookie imparting more almond flavour and more moistness. By no means is this […]
These are classic French Salted Butter Cookies – crumbly and melt in your mouth full of buttery flavour. Originating from Brittany in the northeast of France (famous for their salted butter), these Breton Cookies(Sablé Breton) have a sandy texture and are traditionally round with fluted edges. Unbelievably delicious with just […]
There’s a story going around, and this came up again because of the new Top Gun movie starring the everlasting Tom Cruise, that if you are in Tommy’s Nice List , you get gifted this White Chocolate and Coconut Bundt Cake come Christmas time or any other special occasion. I […]
I used to frequent a small coffee shop near work, who served the best coffee. Not only that , the coffee came with a free Amaretti Cookie. The only problem was, the cookie was the size of my thumb nail and not nearly enough for me. Of course I had […]