French Country Loaf

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Welcome spring with the fragrance of freshly baked French loaves. You will never want to have store bought bread after you have baked this fluffy and light bread.Dear readers, you are welcome to a new and improved blog! My apologizes for taking so long to construct this blog. A lot of factors made this blog hang in the middle for so long, which is...

Lemon Curd

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Sweet and sour lemon butter with a creamy and silky smooth consistency. Delicious in cakes, tarts or simply as a spread on a slice of bread.I have always been skeptical to lemony stuff. Maybe because it reminds me of the double sandwiched lemon buiscuits mom used to buy in large packings when we were younger or maybe it is just something with lemon...

Smarties Cake

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A moist chocolate cake covered with chocolate icing, chocolate bars and colorful chocolate bunties. Drown yourself and the kids in chocolate!My cute little niece's second birthday cake! A little children's colorful dream in all the rainbow's colors and ofcourse it has to be chocolate. Last year my sister asked me to make a Hello Kitty cake, and this...

Battenburg Cake ~ Daring Baker's Challenge, June 2012

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A luxury two colored Victoria cake, sandwiched together with apricot & peach jam and dredged with Marzipan. A real English royal cake.I have not been able to participate in the daring baker's challenge for some months now. Partly caused by all the bready challenges that has been up now and I am more of a sweet person, so I was waiting for some...

French Almond Cake

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A very moist almond-flavoured cake with sugar topping. Have it simple or enjoy with freshly whipped cream and raspberry sauce.14th June. 3 years and 1 month. The days are passing so fast, and another week is moving toward its end and I have still not managed to make the most out of the time I had, if anything at all. It is quite scary actually to think...

Queen of Sheba

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Reine de Saba. A French classic almond and chocolate cake with a rich and creamy, silky smooth texture topped with chocolate glazing and almond slices. A delicious coffee treat. It has been a while now since my last post, but it is really not easy to blog, study and work at the same time. In addition I have also been trying to redecorate my room for...