desserts recipes
6 EGGS = 6 EGG YOLKS + 6 EGG WHITES = 6 PUDDINGS + 24 MERINGUES ! I recently showed you what to do with your leftover chocolate easter eggs by making large colorful meringues with them. Now I’m showing you how to make 2 easy desserts, but not using leftovers this time or to put it simply, by not having any leftover egg yolks nor egg...
APPLES AGAIN ?! Yes … but with walnuts this time and puff pastry … be BRAVE, another LAST apple dessert recipe this weekend and then nothing until next autumn or winter ! What else was I supposed to do ? I still had a jar of my apple compote in the refrigerator. I still had puff pastry that I had frozen and many, many,...
Stephanie & Caroline – better known as the "TATIN SISTERS" never had a mold like this to make elongated, easier-to-make and easier-to-serve upside down apple pie or “taaaaarte tatiiiiiiin” ! This interesting dessert which is now a classic, was invented accidentally around the end...
A few sweet moments before the holidays ? WHY WAIT ? ... Cookies made with almonds and oranges to celebrate the arrival of winter but with a touch of orange blossom water to remind us that spring and sunny weather will follow soon after ! Normally cookies are prepared directly on a cookie baking sheet, but these are somewhat between cookies...
As I mentioned in my 2 last posts, a failed solid pumpkin caramel recipe (it was too soft) turned into 3 re-adapted recipes and no longer failures ! What I also forgot to mention is that I initially made over 5 cups of this soft pumpkin caramel (which is also an excellent spread) and used only 2 cups for the last recipe so I was now...
What can you do with the rest of your chocolate easter eggs (if they’re candy-coated) or extra m&m’s (if you have some lying around) and egg whites (if you have some of those too, as I always do) ? Well, you can make COLORFUL & SPECKLED CHOCOLATE EGG MERINGUES that look like SEAGULL EGGS !!! The idea came to me...
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR !!! (which is tomorrow on February 8 and celebrated for 1 week) … and here are my traditional Chinese new year peanut cookies, but with a Canadian touch, a chocolate-covered candied-cherry heart, in the middle … WHY, you ask ? I’m not Chinese as you know, but several of my Canadian friends...
Because it’s my BIRTHDAY today, because I’m trying to stay SIMPLE, because WE HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR, because we were (and still are) "CHARLIE", because I also want to be "GEORGIE" again & because LIFE MUST GO ON … here’s my birthday cake to ME ! We’re invited...
... IF THESE 3 CAKES CAN GET ALONG, THEN WHY CAN'T WE ?! When either sad and/or bad things seem to be happening around you, try to do something to remember the happier times ! When I was a kid growing up in Montreal, my mom or dad would buy us May West cakes (a Quebec dessert invention made by a company that still exists and...
"Like brave soldiers, guarding the night, brothers-in-arms bound to one anothers’ lives, the Prince steps forward, sacrificing himself and revealing to you, beyond the dark-as-night chocolate armour, a mind as bright as fire, a crown of sugar diamonds, with a heart and a soul the depth of caramel … " As I...
SHOW-OFF your LOVE, BUILD a "SPECIAL" DESSERT for VALENTINE’S DAY ! This apple-based Valentine’s Day dessert idea is actually a combination and reinterpretation of a few of my latest January and February recipes. One recipe or technique simply led to another … I had dear friends from France and Canada who were...
“Can’t you just make up a recipe with only 5 ingredients, that even I can make ?” … says (a friend & neighbor) Frank, to me last night as we were leaving an exhibition in Paris, of my friend Isabelle Stell’s beautiful & whimsical drawings (check it out, she has a website of her collection of drawings...
“This weird and perhaps not-so-attractive thing, is a delight and you’d be crazy not to make some quickly !” Of course, this isn’t my invention, this is an Italian and Portuguese holiday sweet, often called “chocolate salami” … I simply re-adapted my chocolate and biscuit blocks (see recipe here) for...
Just one last sweet orange-colored autumnal recipe before I begin with the savory versions of orange-colored squash recipes … What can you do with your extra homemade pumpkin purée ? Well you can just eat it with a spoon or you can make quick and easy fruit jellies ! My last 2 recipes used pumpkin purée incorporated in the...
JIAO-ZI is the Chinese word for DUMPLING and also the name of a fellow blogger’s (see Mandy Lee’s post from Lady and Pups here) dearest doggie & friend who passed away recently and who I dedicate this Western autumnal dessert to … As I said, this is in no way an Asian recipe nor a reinterpretation of one. My physical body...