The ultimate orange cake, flavoured with freshly squeezed orange juice and fragrant orange zest. Finished with a vibrant orange icing and a sprinkling of desiccated coconut, it is wonderfully fluffy, moist and intensely aromatic. Simply delicious!
On Shrove Tuesday, a little indulgence is perfectly acceptable — even at breakfast ;). These French toasts are fried in butter and infused with the wonderful flavours of orange and cinnamon. Absolutely heavenly! For serving, use seasonal fruit — I chose blood oranges
If advocaat-filled doughnuts are always your first choice at the bakery and you’ve dreamed of making them at home, you’re going to love this recipe! These doughnuts are generously filled with silky advocaat custard, finished with an advocaat icing and decorated with raspberries.
These custard cookies were inspired by the very first recipe in the wonderful cookbook Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh, but this time they are based on my own recipe for the simplest butter cookies. All it takes is adding custard powder
Reese’s chocolates are incredibly popular and much loved, although I only discovered them fairly recently myself (we rarely buy ready-made sweets). It turned out that the children absolutely adore them, and my husband simply cannot stop eating them ;).
A cake that still smells of summer… And it does not even matter if you think you do not like desiccated coconut — here, even coconut sceptics will enjoy it. The recipe author herself, Nigella Lawson, calls it a “Bounty cake”, which should already be recommendation enough :).
A wonderfully old-fashioned English walnut cake with coffee buttercream. One of my English friends bakes it for every important occasion, including Christmas. I still remember when she brought this cake to school for a festive gathering — everyone would come
The very best nutty gingerbread hearts. Rustic in appearance, with their wonderful aroma coming not only from the warming spice blend but also from a generous amount of nuts: almonds and walnuts. They taste wonderfully rich and nutty. These rustic gingerbread de with walnut liqueur…
The best nut cheesecake I have ever tasted — and ever baked. A beautiful three-layer cheesecake with a biscuit base, a rich nut filling and finally a creamy cheesecake layer on top. The nut layer is especially delicious and could honestly stand on its own, but
Alongside all the summer fruit ice creams that are surely still ahead of us, it is also worth using up the jars of preserved fruit hiding in the pantry before the new season begins. Blueberries, cherries, strawberries… whatever you happen to have in abundance.
A pistachio Pavlova simply had to happen, and the idea suggested by one of my readers sounded absolutely wonderful :). Probably the most challenging part is blending the pistachios into smooth pistachio butter — after that, the rest is already familiar territory:
A delicate cheesecake with fruit and jelly — light, airy and incredibly delicious. This version is made with homogenised cheese. From time to time you ask whether this type of cheese can be used in baked cheesecakes, and I usually would not recommend it; here,
A quick, refreshing and light cake with lemon mousse made with kefir or buttermilk, topped with peaches and jelly. In my kitchen it goes by the name “Cytrynka”(Little Lemon), though you can easily make it in your favourite flavour — how about a raspberry or blueberry
This coconut and passion fruit cake is full of light, tropical flavours that truly deserve your attention :). The cake is beautifully fragrant with passion fruit, only lightly coconutty in flavour, and wonderfully quick and easy to prepare. There is no creaming involved
These Italian pistachio cookies are so delicious that it is worth making a double batch straight away ;). These are not your ordinary pistachio biscuits — there is no flour in them at all, they are made almost entirely from pistachios. Crisp on the outside, soft and
A double pistachio cheesecake — with a pistachio cheesecake filling and a delicious pistachio glaze. This cheesecake is wonderfully creamy, smooth and luscious in texture. The finishing touch is the pistachio topping made with natural 100% pistachio paste. An irresistible
A wonderfully lemony Basque cheesecake! Rich, ultra-creamy and full of fresh lemon flavour, with the signature deeply caramelised top. It feels wonderfully spring-like, despite the winter weather still lingering outside ;). It now joins my delicious collection of Basque cheesecakes.
Who even came up with the idea of calling them “pierogi”? ;). Regardless of the name, they are absolutely delicious! Until I tried this recipe from Fetti, the lazy pierogi from traditional Polish milk bars seemed impossible to recreate at home (was choosing the right