Persimon cake

Dear all,

Autumn has almost come and gone, but autumn certainly brings some nice fruits to work with. This time I used persimons. I used persimon in the batter as well as on top. Delicious!

xoxo Jennifer

Xmas cookies

Dear all,

For a special event my mum and I made fancy two-toned Christmas cookies. Take a look!

Merry (almost) Christmas!!

xoxo Jennifer

White chocolate cookies with custard

Dear all,

I haven't been baking enough recently, so I decided it was time for cookies. Today I present to you: White chocolate cookies. With custard. A recipe I found said to put custard powder in with the cookies, I had never tried that before. To be honest, I'm not sure what the custard powder adds, but they're pretty tasty!

Hehe I had the first batch in the oven too long (or rather, my oven was too hot I think) but the second batch worked perfectly. Above is the result of batch nr. 2 (with the bad batch hiding underneath!).

Oh, and Happy Halloween!!

xoxo Jennifer

Mocha Shortbread

Dear all,

A friend came over for lunch and requested chocolate. That I can do! So I made mocha shortbread ( a recipe from Fortnum and Mason). The recipe calls for the use of rice flour (in combination with regular flour). That's something I have never used, and I'm still not quite sure of the benefits (though I've been told that it adds to the crunchiness?), either way, these biscuits are fan-tas-tic. Highly recommended!!

 

 

xoxo Jennifer

Quilt Cake

Dear all,

We recently celebrated my mum's birthday. She is a quilter (has her own company North Sea Quilters) and one of the quilts is called "Little Amsterdam" which I love. So for her birthday I decided to make a Little Amsterdam cake (with help from my brother!). For a pop of colour I used red velvet cake. Here it goes:

 

xoxo Jennifer

Stroopwafel cupcake

Dear all,

Instead of French I went for Dutch this time. I made my own little stroopwafel (caramel waffle) cupcakes! They even had little bits of stroopwafel inside. I hope they tasted good, they were gone in no time and I did not have a chance to try one! (which must be a good sign, right?)




xoxo Jennifer

Gateau fondant aux nectarines

Dear all,

So this is a fancy name for a nectarine cake! Haha. But I love just saying the name, as I loved this very moist cake! Simple but effective.

This really was another great cake, which I made for a dinner party, where a friend also made a dessert: a delicious clafoutis, the perfect accompaniment for my little french dessert!

xoxo Jennifer

Mocha cake

Dear all,

For a friend I decided to make a mocha cake. A fairly common cake you'd think, except as someone allergic to coffee it is not a given to make. But it was a special request so I put my thinking hat on to make the best mocha cake I could think of (NOT a coffee cake. Mocha. Chocolate AND coffee!). This is the (successful) result!

A mocha cake to start with: real chocolate, real coffee and ground hazelnuts.

The nuts give a lovely structure to the cake, and added flavour of course.

The chocolate ganache was coffee infused, and I decorated the cake with roasted hazelnuts. Good stuff!

xoxo Jennifer

Flag cake

For a bbq over the summer I was asked to make a dessert. Now making a cake for a large group of people is not easy, nor is transporting it. I thus decided to make a traybake cake that I could assemble on location. I was insipired by a union jack cake I saw for the Queen's jubily and decided to make a flag cake. This was a Dutch/Japanese event and fortunately both countries have a cake friendly flag design! Here they are:

It was a simple vanilla/lemon sponge cake, with cream cheese icing and a variety of fruit to finish it off. The cake was lovely and fresh due to the lemon zest in it, which I also added a bit to the icing. The fruit on top really gave it a summery feel. It was a huge success!

xoxo Jennifer

Cheat Cheesecake

Dear all,

Sometimes I crave a proper dessert but don't want all the mess and effort of making a large portion. I recently discovered (yes, late, I know!) how easy it is to make a 1 portion cheesecake which tastes amazing. So here is my cheat cheesecake!

Simple: crushed digestive biscuits, mix cream cheese with some icing sugar and vanilla essence, then crush some strawberries with a teaspoon of icing sugar to make a kind of coulis. Slice some strawberries, assemble the whole thing in a glass, and tadaa. Cheat cheesecake. The possibilities are endless! Love~

xoxo Jennifer

White chocolate poundcake with pistachios

Dear all, It has been a while! I have not given up baking, just been lazy with this blog. But I'm back, so here's my most recent creation. Today my family came over for tea and cake, so I made them a white chocolate poundcake with pistachios. SO good. Here are the pics:

Not only does the pound cake have grated white chocolate in it, the greek yoghurt and cream cheese icing also had melted white chocolate in it! No extra sugar needed there, perfect sweetness.

We want more!! For sure!!

See you Wednesday for my next update.

xoxo Jennifer