I was clearing out my cupboards and came across a biscotti recipe book I was given a while ago. Looking through the book, this one recipe stood out quite a lot. I love chocolate, I love cherries and I love hazelnuts and had to make these. If you haven’t tried to make your…
Category: Sweet bakes
GF Chocolate, Hazelnut and Pear cake
This GF cake was mainly made for my Uncle, I do find Gluten-free cakes hard to make, but I do like a challenge. This cake just sounded delicious, who doesn’t love a bit of chocolate and hazelnuts? I just thought of Nutella straight away and I love Nutella. The addition of the pear,…
Chocolate hazelnut praline caramel tart
Praline is such a delicious flavour. When I was younger, I always thought that praline was very exclusive and would be only used in very expensive pastry shops. The ones where you see all these small miniatures in the window and drool over them, then have a heart attack over the price. It…
Crisps, chocolate and peanut tart
You know when you have one of those day, when all you want to do is chill out. It’s not that often for me, I prefer to get out and about at the weekends compared to staying at home. However, this happened to be one of them days. I was at my parent’s…
Pistachio Cake
Not only do I love the taste of pistachios, I love the vibrant green colour as well. They really are such a unique nut, which other nut has a green colour? 🤔. This cake was pretty simple and easy to make the only thing that took long was to un shell the pistachios!…
Blood Orange Cake
When I think of oranges I don’t think of them being red, just orange so blood orange are unusual to me. I don’t remember trying blood orange well not that I know of, apparently they are known to be much sweeter then normal oranges but what I’m most fascinates me about them is…
Choux Doughnuts
A long time ago I made profiteroles and I fancied making them again but this time as a big ring. I remember when I made the profiteroles rolls and they didn’t work the first time but had another go and they worked, I couldn’t remember which recipe I used. With any baking that…
Tiramisu truffle balls
Oh hey, bye bye 👋 2017 and bring on 2018 🎉, let’s hope it brings happiness for everyone. So as my first post of 2018, this year I still want to carry on with my baking and cooking adventure. I want to experience different taste and experiences as I do every year and…