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.
Banana smoothie is nourishing, delicious and wonderfully quick to make. Perfect for breakfast or simply whenever you fancy something tasty. This version combines bananas with orange juice — preferably freshly squeezed — and natural yoghurt. I like to enhance
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
The trendiest rhubarb buns of the season :). They are simply irresistible — soft and fluffy yeast buns generously filled with rhubarb and silky vanilla crème pâtissière, finished with crumble topping. This recipe makes as many as 12 large rhubarb buns
Soft, butter pecan cookies with an incredible flavour. The butter beautifully enhances the richness of the nuts, making these cookies especially delicious. Children love them too. Just remember to leave plenty of space between the cookies on the baking tray
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
Half key lime pie, half cheesecake. This lime cheesecake with meringue is essentially inspired by the famous American key lime pie you may already know from the blog, but with the addition of Philadelphia-style cream cheese, making the dessert even
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
Well… I am officially joining the long list of people who absolutely love these rolls. Everything I had read about them turned out to be true. Delicious, fluffy and wonderfully soft. Even kneading the dough is a pleasure when you can watch it rise so beautifully!
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
A wonderfully refreshing summer drink – best gooseberry lemonade, flavoured with lemon and fresh mint. This gooseberry lemonade is perfectly sweet and tangy, making it ideal for cooling down on hot days. It is best prepared the evening before a heatwave is expected.
The popular and much-loved Polish “cushion cake” is essentially a cheesecake baked into a chocolate sponge. A cheesecake lattice is piped over the top of the chocolate batter, and as the cake rises during baking, it creates the characteristic little “cushions” on the surface.