Another quick, easy and no-way-you-can-screw-it dessert that can yield impressive result in a flash. Make sure you keep a pack of puff pastry in your freezer all the time. Grab some apples, peaches, pears, or just throw in some frozen berries, you are good to go. Ingredients (serves 4): 4 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored [...]
Category Archives: Dessert
05-Mar-12
Apple Puff Pasty Pie
27-Feb-12
Lemon Muffin
Meyer lemon. The most beautiful lemon on earth. That vigorous yellow color and addicting fragrance simply make you happy. Look at it or smell it, DELIGHT! Ingredients (12 regular-sized muffins): 2 cups flour 1 cup and 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 regular or meyer lemons 2 eggs 1 cup milk [...]
23-Feb-12
Quick Chocolate Cupcake with Nutella
Quick, as in you don’t need to bring your ingredients to room temperature. No standing mixer, no hand mixer. If you have a sudden crave over some chocolate treat, get up, whip this up, after 20 minutes, you have these delicious babies. I’m glad that I found this recipe. Such an easy yet versatile and [...]
18-Feb-12
Chocolate Ganache Tart
You know how screwed you are when you bought a 12-inch tart pan but all the recipes in the universe are made for 9 or 10-inch pan only? SO SCREWED. The reason why I bought this pan was because it looks so chic with that bright red color. It still does look chic. Just it [...]
14-Feb-12
Lemon Curd Meringue Cake
Again, nothing inside can be seen at this point. But only the flaming outside can already tell the story. The story about how sinfully delicious it was. My husband found it too sweet, probably because of the lemon curd, which I found perfectly okay. You may want to lower the sugar level if you want. [...]
How many times did my cheesecake come out from a water bath NOT leaking? Probably one. Maybe I didn’t wrap a thousand pieces of foil around my springform pan. Maybe baking cheesecake in a water bath simply sucks. Now I am telling you an alternative if you are as frustrated as I used to be. [...]
31-Jan-12
Blueberry and Cranberry Crumb Muffin
Baking with kids is messy. I am not going to hide this fact. But it is also immensely fun. Last time I made these cupcakes with my 3-year-old boy, we both enjoyed it a lot. The more I cook with kids, the more fun facts I find. Not only can it encourage them to eat, but [...]
I was given a pack of Lindt dark chocolate with soft and delicate orange pieces and crispy toasted almond slivers inside. The citrus flavor blends perfectly with the intense dark chocolate. And this was how the inspiration for this cake came along. Ingredients (9-inch 2-layered cake): Chocolate Devil Food Layer Cake 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour [...]
19-Jan-12
Tiramisu Cheesecake
It’s been so long since last time I made Tiramisu. Too long that I had no idea that Tiramisu could be presented as a cake. Now since I have to make cakes every now and then because of my very celebratory children, I had to convert a conventional Tiramisu into a cake. Just for their [...]
I know. Ganache? Where? Because all you can see is a chocolate blanket, or mudslide, or A MESS. The reason why I still wanted to post it was this was incredibly delicious! Silky cream filling wrapped inside that intense yet pillowy chocolate sheet cake. Plus, doesn’t it look like a piece of art? Ingredients (12-inch [...]
