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Caramelized apples cake

14 déc

This caramelised apples cake is a typical recipe from Normandy, the French region of apples! I love making it during cold times as the smell and taste of the apples are perfect to warm everybody up!

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes in the oven thermostat 140 degrees
Difficulty: Very easy
Ingredients:
- 125 gr of sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon of yoghurt or liquid cream
- 150 grams of flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 2 apples
- 30 gr of butter
- 1 tablespoon of vanilla sugar

Peel the apples and cut them into fine slices. Put them into a pan with the butter and the vanilla sugar. Cook them in the pan at low fire until they become soft, and caramelized them by mixing them gently with the butter and the sugar.

In the meantime, prepare the dough by mixing together the sugar, eggs, flour, liquid cream/yogurt and the baking powder.

When the apples are ready, put them into the dough and mix gently.

Put the mixture into a loaf tin and cook in the oven for around 45 minutes thermostat 140 degrees. Serve warm or cold, with a glass of cider.

Tip: you can decorate the cake when it is ready by adding some icing sugar on top of it.

(Leggings: Calzedonia, nail polish; Rimmel London, Earings: Claire’s)

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Belgium Waffles

21 mar

Do you know the difference between Belgium waffles and Liege waffles?Belgium waffles have a rectangular shape and are lighter than Liege ones. Liege waffles have a hexagonal shape and they are more sugary and crispy as they contain chunks of pearl sugar Anyway, they are both yummy and I love them!! Today I will share with you my Belgium, waffles recipe that I get from my grandmother. Cheers Grandma :)

Just before we start, don’t forget an important element, you need a waffle iron to bake the waffles!

Preparation time: 15 minutes (then let the dough rest for 30 minutes)

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients (for 2 people):

- 125 gr of flour

- 1 pinch of salt

- 2 eggs

- 15 gr of butter

- 75 cl of milk

- 75 cl of warm water

- 1 teaspoon of sugar (optional)

Separate the whites of the eggs from the yolks and beat the whites. Put the yolks in a bowl and mix them with the flour, milk, water, salt, melted butter and sugar. Incorporate softly the whites.

Let the dough rest for 30 minutes and bake the waffles into a waffle iron (around 2 minutes per waffle).

Enjoy them sprinkled with icing sugar or “a la francaise” with stewed apples.

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Twelfth Night cake (Galette des Rois)

04 jan

On the 6th of January we celebrate the Twelfth Night. For the occasion, French people are baking a special pie stuffed with frangipane (an almond based cream). Tradition has it that we hide a lucky charm inside the Twelfth Night cake.  Before the degustation, a child is hiding below the table and designate whom will have which piece of cake. The person whom will find the lucky charm in his piece will be the King or Queen of the day and will have to wear a lovely paper crown.

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 35 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients (for 4 to 6 persons):

- 500 gr of puff pastry (ready rolled if you want to save time)

- 200 gr of almond powder

- 150 gr of butter

- 2 eggs + 1 egg yolk for the decoration

- 125 gr of caster sugar

- 1 teaspoon of rum

- A lucky charm or a bean (optional)

For the frangipane, melt the butter and mix it with the almond powder, the sugar, the two eggs and the rum.

Roll out half of the pastry in a disc shape. Spread the frangipane on the pastry. Leave a 2cm clean strip from the edge of the puff pastry and dampen it with water (it will help stick the two discs of pastry together). Hide a lucky charm or a bean in the frangipane.

Roll out the second half of the pastry. It should be with the same shape and size of the first one. Put the second pastry disc on top of the first one and stick them together on the edge.

To give a golden colour to the Twelfth Night cake, brush the pastry with the remaining egg yolk.

Put the cake into the oven for around 35 minutes at thermostat 180 degrees until it has a golden brown colour.

You can eat the Twelfth Night cake warm or cold if it has the time to cool before being eaten!

Happy New Year 2011!!

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Raspberry yule log

23 déc

Replace the usual Christmas Pudding by a raspberry yule log. This will surprise your guests, and they will remember for years this yummy desert ! Be careful, once they will taste it, they will ask for it every Christmas !  

Preparation time: 2 hours

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Difficulty: Intermediate

Ingredients (for 4 persons):

For the biscuit:

- 3 eggs

- 125 g of caster sugar

- 100 g of flour

- 30 g of almond powder

For the decoration:

- 250 g of mascarpone

- 80 g of caster sugar

- 10 cl of single cream

- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

- 200 g of raspberries

- 2 eggs

Start by baking the biscuit. In a bowl, mix together the egg yolk with the sugar, the flour and the almond powder. Delicately add the stiffly beaten egg whites. Put in the oven for 20 minutes at thermostat 160 degrees. When the biscuit is done, turn it out of the mould and put it on a damp cloth. Roll it tightly in the cloth.

Prepare the decoration by mixing the single cream until it gets thick. Then add the mascarpone, the vanilla and the sugar and mix gently. Put this mascarpone cream in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Unroll the biscuit and spread on it the mascarpone cream. Add ¾ of the raspberries and keep the rest for decorating the outside of the yule log. Roll tightly the biscuit in the cloth again and put it in the fridge for 45 minutes.

Stiffly beat the two remaining egg whites and spread the mixture around the yule log. Put it in the oven on grill position at thermostat 220 degrees for 5 minutes, until the egg whites became meringue-topped.

I hope that you will like this raspberry yule log as much as my family does!

Happy Christmas to all of you!!

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