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