These chocolate Guinness cupcakes must be some of the moistest cupcakes I’ve ever tried! You cannot taste the Guinness per say, but the Guinness helps to enhance the chocolate flavour so that you end up with deeply chocolaty cupcakes with a slight malty flavour. What? A chocolate Guinness cupcakes?? You read right! Yep, that was my […]
My lemon meringue pie features Italian meringue to balance the tartness of the lemon curd. This seasonless dessert is always popular! This lemon meringue pie is my partner’s favorite. The lemon curd is tarter than most, which is perfectly balanced by the sweetness of the Italian meringue. The lemon curd is simple, and the effort to get […]
This delicious strawberry tart with a mascarpone cream filling is a lovely summer dessert that allows fresh strawberries to shine.I love strawberry desserts, but never quite warmed to the traditional strawberry and creme patisserie tarts. I’m not sure why… I love strawberries and I love creme patisserie!! It was clear to me that there had […]
This apricot tart is super nice and extremely easy to prepare! It’s made up of a sweet shortcrust pastry, stewed apricots, and fresh apricots. Very juicy and fragrant, it is just like desserts I loved as a child! I used my favorite sweet shortcrust recipe (Philippe Conticini’s), but you can replace it with a regular tart dough as […]
I tried many recipes and many ways of making sweet shortcrust pastry, and this is one of my favorites. Sweet shortcrust pastry is the dough used for most fruit tarts and this version is light, crisp and full of flavour thanks to the addition of the vanilla and the lemon zest. This is Philippe Conticini’s […]
Choux pastry is the basis for many French desserts. For some reason, I struggled to get this one right – I would always end up with a deflated ball of dough as they would collapse or just not rise correctly. That said, I think that I’ve now found the winning recipe and have had success […]