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Tahini cake with lemon and white chocolate by Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich. We are recipe-hunters.

Tahini cake with lemon and white chocolate by Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich

Our flat is filled with bits of paper scribbled with rudimentary instructions from friendly cooks we meet on the way; pages we’ve torn from newspapers and foreign magazines with a picture we like and a recipe we will one day translate; menus with cryptic notes written after drunken dinners (what did we eat that made us write “coriander before and after, also lamb, must try”, and what does it mean?). Our phones are also filled with pictures, not only of dishes we liked but also of recipes we will one day try, in our never-ending search for lovely things to cook, serve and eat.

Most of these recipes never get made, but every so often, when we have some headspace and free time, we go through these papers, take recipes to the kitchen and try them. This is one such recipe, found in a drawer in our kitchen, torn from a newspaper – neither of us remembers which one, but it has an American feel because it uses buttermilk and peanut butter. Hazelnut Cake. Fluffy and light. - Klara`s Life. Kim-Joy’s recipe for bear biscuits: a cardamom, orange and chocolate delight. These bear biscuits are very simple to make and kids will love the cute factor.

Kim-Joy’s recipe for bear biscuits: a cardamom, orange and chocolate delight

You can also play about with the fillings and make different-coloured bears. Prep time: 15 mins (shortbread), 10 mins (icing), 10 mins (ganache, if making)Bake time: 10-15 minsPlus decorating timeMakes: 12 For the shortbread200g salted butter85g caster sugar1 orange rind1 ¼ tsp ground cardamom (ground from cardamom seeds from pod for the best flavour)270g plain flour For the ganache (or you can use your favourite chocolate spread)200g dark chocolate150g double creamIcing sugar (to taste) For the royal icing110g icing sugar20g egg whiteGel food dye: black, blue Plus chocolate buttons Preheat the oven to 160C/325F/gas mark 3. Strawberry Cake - Preppy Kitchen. Everyone's Favorite Fruitcake Recipe. Speculoos Recipe. Want to bake your own Biscoff cookies?

Speculoos Recipe

Also known as Speculaas, Speculoos or Dutch Windmill Cookies, this easy recipe is perfect for the holidays! Coulant de chocolate: desparrame de placer. Ya lo predijo Mikel en 2011: el coulant de chocolate, perla de la alta repostería y postre ubicuo por doquier se iba a quedar para vestir santos.

Coulant de chocolate: desparrame de placer

Hace 10 años dabas una patada en un restaurante y te encontrabas un coulant rezumante. Te miraba con ojillos seductores, haciéndote promesas de plato de alto copete con sorpresa incorporada. “¡Oh, está caliente por dentro! Tarta de castañas, vainilla y pera. Esa sensación que tienes cuando sales del trabajo a las tantas, estás a punto de entrar en el metro y te encuentras con un puesto de castañas asadas que huele a gloria bendita.

Tarta de castañas, vainilla y pera

Vale, hemos pasado unos meses de octubre y noviembre rarunos, con el edredón a medio camino entre el trastero y la cama y las temperaturas resistiéndose a bajar, pero que no sea por falta de ganas. Tarta Tatin de higos y nueces. Los puristas de la tarta inventada por las hermanas Tatin se echarán las manos a la cabeza al ver profanado su nombre mezclado con higos y nueces, en vez de con manzanas.

Tarta Tatin de higos y nueces

A mí me gusta recordarlas cada vez que hago una tarta al revés y por eso siempre las llamo Tatin, que Caroline y Stephanie T. merecen ser nombradas una y otra vez por habernos dejado esa maravilla llena de caramelo y dulzura. El verano nos ha traído higos y brevas en cantidad, con los que hemos hecho ensaladas, sabrosas minipizzas, nos han inspirado para ponernos a experimentar con alginato en plan bulliniano, o los hemos comido con queso de cabra y jamón.

Tarta de queso ricota y chocolate. Tostada francesa con frutas. Es como la versión chic de nuestras adoradas torrijas, no?

Tostada francesa con frutas

Lo del comino es cierto, he comido magdalenas que lo llevaban y estaban muy ricas. La ciencia de las magdalenas. Si sois devotos de las divinas magdalenas habréis peregrinado alguna vez en busca de su Santo Grial: la magdalena perfecta.

La ciencia de las magdalenas

Se esconde bajo distintas formas, porque cada ser humano tiene una clara y prístina predilección por una especie magdalenera concreta. Oma's Appeltaart - Laura's Bakery. In elke familie zijn er familierecepten.

Oma's Appeltaart - Laura's Bakery

Ik ben zelf vooral geïnteresseerd in de zoete recepten. Van het volgende zoete recept ben ik fan: Oma’s Appeltaart. Recetas de Cocina Casera - Recetas fáciles y sencillas. Portuguese Custard Cups Recipe. Hello David, just getting back to you about the gluten-free tarts – well, they tasted delicious but the pastry was certainly different.

Portuguese Custard Cups Recipe

How to make the perfect coffee and walnut cake. There are two types of cake in the world: the rich, sophisticated gateaux best eaten in delicate slivers after dinner; and the homely, comforting kind that, if push came to shove, most of us really prefer. The latter are the sort of cakes your granny might have made (if she lived in Ambridge), the ones sold on paper plates wrapped messily in clingfilm at the village fete; in short, the cakes you imagine the sainted Mary Berry probably eats for breakfast.

As you may have guessed, I'm a big fan of this humbler, homelier kind of cake. Banana Bread Recipe. Photography Credit: Elise Bauer This banana bread has been the most popular recipe on Simply Recipes for over 10 years. Thousands of people make it every day. Why? Carrot Cake III Recipe. Vacances, Tourisme Creuse Limousin. Lavender-Polenta Coffee Cake (French Lavender) Recipe. Chocolate Chip, Apricot and Hazelnut Cookie Slices. With Halloween being just one week behind us it seems a little bit crazy to be putting up a recipe that features chocolate in any form.

Last Sunday and Monday I made a valiant effort to reduce the number of little chocolate bars that were hanging around and Max and Glen joined in to help. I ate mini Kit Kats and Oh Henrys and Aeros and even a Tootsie Roll or two. We still have a massive bowl of treats staring at me from the kitchen counter and yet by Wednesday I was longing for something with some good chocolate in it. Maybe with some nuts and/or dried fruit. Something homemade. Top Secret Chocolate Cookies Recipe. Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread. I’m sorry. I know it’s Monday morning and you probably came here for some pretty pictures of food that you could glance at, and then move on with your day… and here I go thrusting warm, soft cinnamon sugar bread in your face.

It’s not fair. Apple Pie by Grandma Ople Recipe. Apple & spice tealoaf recipe. Apples in dressing gowns recipe. When I was a child I loved the vision of my mother's apples in their dressing gowns – pastry-covered windfalls enclosing a magical pocket of jam. Because this recipe typically follows a meat meal, the pastry has been reworked so that's it is possible to make it with dairyfree soft margarine. Here a daintier version using nectarines or plums stuffed with marzipan makes an elegant autumn dessert. The juice oozes slightly on cooking but this adds to the charm of the dish. Makes 8 For the extra-rich shortcrust pastry (or, as my mother called it, "Mürbeteig"):410g plain floura pinch of salt200g dairy-free soft margarine130g ground almonds70g fairtrade soft light brown sugar30g vanilla sugar1 organic free-range egg2 egg yolks (save one egg white for the topping and freeze the other for making meringues or biscuits)1 teaspoon vanilla extractzest of 1 lemon, grated1 tablespoon very cold water For the filling:8 teaspoons jam4 plums or nectarines, halved120g marzipan.

Fruit-Studded Polenta Shortcake Recipe. In The Kitchen With: Cheryl Day’s Chocolate Chess Pie. Cheryl Day’s Back in the Day Bakery is one of my favorite “one day I’m going to drive to that bakery” dream destinations. Cheryl is one of the first people I thought about when I saw Black History Month coming around the bend. She has shared her blackened shrimp tacos and baked peach hand pies before. This week, she shares her Chocolate Chess Pie. Chess pie is the quintessential Southern pie (Hugh Acheson shared his recipe with us), often seated alongside a pecan pie and a sweet potato pie at holidays. If you’ve never tried it, it is an incredibly sweet pie that’s difficult to describe — a filling made with butter, sugar, eggs and some cornmeal, and sometimes you’ll find it with lemon, sometimes with chocolate. In the kitchen with: rigetta klint’s Æblekage. I was having lunch at an Italian restaurant last week when everyone at our table was attracted by the fig dessert on the menu.

The waiter broke the news that it is too early for figs, but at the end of the apple season, so why not try an apple dessert. After her very popular beetroot pesto in March, Rigetta Klint, founder of Slow Fashion House, has shared her version of a traditional and very popular Danish dessert, æblekage. Patisa - Soan Papdi - By Vahchef @ Vahrehvah.com. Healthy Homemade Mango Fruit Roll-Ups Recipe. If it really is true that “you are what you eat,” then from the ages of 6 to 13, I was a walking, talking fruit snack. I was a Gushers crusher. A String Thing enthusiast. How to make the perfect pecan pie. This week, in honour of Thanksgiving, I've finally been let loose on one of my favourite American desserts. Pecan Pie V Recipe. Macarons de chocolate relleno de crema naranja. ¿Está visitando nuestra web desde Canada? Video tutorial: Macarons paso a paso. Red Velvet & Salted Caramel Whoopie Pies. It is that time of year again, friends.

Yes, the super bowl is upon us. I am not a huge sports person, as is evidenced by the fact that the last time I watched a football game I asked Jeremy what inning it was. However, I do enjoy watching sports games with people who are reallllly into it. I think the excitement becomes released into the air and I breathe it in or something, because all of a sudden I'm ooohing for one team and awwwwwing for another and getting really angry at referees. (I'm looking at you, Jerome Boger.) Lemon Curd Recipe. Lemon Curd is a thick, soft and velvety cream that has a wonderful tart yet sweet citrus flavor. Traditionally it was used as a spread for scones but today it is used as a filling for tarts, pies, and cakes.

What I like about Lemon Curd is that it does not use exotic ingredients; just eggs, sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest, and unsalted butter. The 10 best ginger recipes. Triple ginger biscotti Unlike traditional biscotti, these won't break your teeth. Besan (Gram Flour) Halwa Recipe. Delicious Brownies « Baking. Spiced olive oil cake recipe. Lemon drizzle cake recipe. How to cook the perfect yule log. Vacances, Tourisme Creuse Limousin. Oma's Appeltaart - Laura's Bakery.