Cakes & Desserts

Valentine's rolls

Cardamom rolls with tonka bean cranberries jam

It’s almost Valentines Day! Are you going to celebrate it? Honestly, we won’t.. But I am always happy to have a reason to bake and try something new so I came up with a big heart made of cardamom rolls filled with homemade tonka bean cranberry jam and topped with lime icing sugar. I made

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Mini Cakes

Buttermilk mini cakes

I made these mini cakes to celebrate the birthday of my daughter’s teacher. The children were terribly excited! To make them more fun I coloured the dough pink and purple. Decorated with a simple sugar/lemon frosting turned pink by some blueberry powder. Some colourful sprinkles and it looks lovely, doesn’t it? I adapted a recipe

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exotic brownies

Brownies with Cashews (and chocolate bunnies)

Who doesn’t love a chewy chocolaty crunchy brownie?? I still have a bunch of swiss chocolate Easter bunnies and so I tried a new recipe for brownies, adapting it a bit to the tropics: I used cashew nuts instead of walnuts and some palm sugar. The result was really good! Making Brownies is quite simple..

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