Baking Treats For Your Eyes AND Your Tastebuds
French Macarons Filled with Lemon Curd These macarons are filled with lemon curd and a lemon-vanilla buttercream for the perfect balance for sweet and tart. Based on Beth’s Foolproof French Macaron Recipe. I recommend using superfine ground almonds for this recipe. The lemon curd needs a bit of time to set, so either prepare it …
French Crêpes French crêpes are easy to make and the sky is the limit when topping your crêpes! Have fun experimenting with different flavour combinations! If you are going to do savoury crêpes, leave out the vanilla and rum.
Easy Blueberry Tart This blueberry tart has a quick shortbread crust and can be put together in less time than it takes to preheat your oven!
This baklava recipe has two layers of mixed chopped nuts and spices layered in between butter-soaked sheets of phyllo pastry. After cooking the baklava is drizzled with a delicious spiced syrup.
These sticky buns are made with a tangzhong dough for a soft fluffy bun. The topping of maple, bacon and pecans makes them a wonderful salty-sweet breakfast treat.
This is a variation on my Quick and Easy One Bowl Brownies. I had some Homemade Dulce de Leche on hand and decided to try topping my brownie batter with spoonfuls of the dulce de leche and sprinkle on some sea salt. The results were amazing! If you’ve never had Dulce de Leche, it’s like a tangy, creamy caramel that is made from sweetened condensed milk. You can easily make it from the recipe linked above.
Blondies are a combination of the best part of chocolate chip cookies and brownies. They taste like a chocolate chip cookie and have a crispy exterior like chocolate chip cookies, but the middle is gooey and fudgy like a brownie. To make my blondies extra flavourful, I brown the butter before adding it to the batter. An optional sprinkle of sea salt over the top takes this treat to the next level!
This caramel apple crisp is a comforting cold-weather dessert. Instead of making caramel, I use dulce de leche in the apple mixture. The combination is a match made in heaven! If you don’t have an oven-safe skillet, you can transfer the cooked apple mixture to a casserole before putting on the topping and baking.