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French madeleines

01 mai

The typical french tea time cake: madeleines! Every body loves them, from 2 to 100 years old!

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Very easy
Ingredients (for around 20 madeleines):
- 2 eggs
- 100 gr of sugar
- 100 gr of flour
- 1 tablespoon of baking powder
- 50 gr of butter
- 1 pinch of salt

In a bowl, mix eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, butter and salt together. You can melt the butter to make it easier to incorporate in the dough.
Put the preparation in the fridge for 30 minutes, so the madeleines will rise better.
Put the dough into madeleines tins and cook in the oven for around 15 minutes, until the madeleines get a goldy color.

Tip: add some orange blossom, lemon or vanilla flavor to change the taste of your madeleines.

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Floating islands – Iles flottantes

14 avr

The must try dessert in french restaurants now directly served at your house! Impressed your friends with the sophisticated recipe… as yummy as easy to bake, but chuuutttt don’t tell anyone!

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients (for 4 people):
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
extract or vanilla leaf
- 80 gr of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
sugar
- 1/2 litre of milk
- Liquid caramel

Boil the milk in a saucepan with the vanilla extract or the vanilla leaf. When it is hot, mix it with the sugar, the vanuilla sugar and the egg yolks (but the white eggs aside). Leave this vanilla sauce to cool for around 1 hour in the fridge.
Beat the egg whites until they become stiff. Put them in the microwave for 1 minute at medium power. When they are cooked, put them to cool in the fridge.
Put the cream in a glass and add a piece of egg whites on top to serve. You can add a dash of caramel for decoration.

Tip: put some chocolate mousse on the bottom of a glass, then pour the vanilla cream and add the egg whites for an elegant effect.

Top: Le Comptoir des Cotonniers

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Chocolate mousse

05 avr

This is a french dessert’s classic and the joy of chocolate lovers: chocolate mousse! This version only has chocolate and egg whites, which make it lighter and more tasty than the one you can find in the supermarket.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Difficulty: Very easy
Ingredients (for 4 people):
- 100 gr of pastry dark chocolate
- 3 eggs
- 1 pinch of salt

Break the chocolate into pieces and melt it in a saucepan with 2 tablespoon of water.
In the meantime, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt (we will not need the egg yolks).
Mix delicately the chocolate with the egg whites and pour the chocolate mousse into glasses. Put them in the fridge for at least 2 hours.

Tip: try it with milk chocolate.

Top: New Yorkers, Jeans: Primark, Earings: Claire’s

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Mirabelle pie

21 mar

Here is a typical recipe from Franche-Comte, a not really well-known but very pretty countryside region of north-east of France. It is made with mirabelle, a small yellow plumb with a sweet taste. Try this pie, I hope that you will like it!

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Very easy
Ingredients (for 6 people):
- 1 pack of unroll puff pastry
- 650 grams of mirabelles (small yellow plumbs)

Unroll the pastry and put it in a tin. Make holes in it with a fork.
Remove the kernel of the mirabelles and put them on the tin.
Cook in the oven for around 30 minutes thermostat 210 degrees.

Tip: if you can find mirabelles, you can do this recipe with plumbs.

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