I took this french classic and gave it a slight twist- used banana in my almond cream. Must say, it gave lovely sweet flavor especially when paired with orange and apple. It is one truly sublime little treat. You don’t have to make the pastry- shop bought works same good. I topped my tart with
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(Makes around 30 small doughnuts) These light and fluffy doughnuts are extremely easy to make and tastes amazing. Curd doughnuts are very popular and commonly made in East Europe, well… in Lithuania for sure 🙂 Curd makes them moist and gives that unique flavour which is totally different from regular yeast doughnuts you all know.
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Fruity Oat Cookies Wholesome, sugarfree ( makes around 25 depending on size) These awesome cookies ticks all the boxes- they are not too sweet, have nice crunchy edges and soft fruity inside. They are packed with dried fruit and little drops of dark chocolate to satisfy that sweet craving. Not forgetting that I am using
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Fudgy Peanut Butter Chocolate Brownies Best ever fudgy Brownies with a hint of sea salt and beautiful rich peanut butter. Made with wholesome whole meal flour for that deeper flavour we love. Easy to make and tastes best after set in the fridge over night. You can add teaspoon of instant espresso powder to get
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These chocolate brownies are just the best! Very easy to make and if you have children and want to surprise mum on Mother’s day or a birthday- they are treat to go for as even children can make them. As usual my treats are made with slightly healthier approach, therefore this recipe is no different.
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(raw, vegan, sugar and gluten free) Absolutely delicious and just sweet enough fudge is raw and vegan dessert made using 100% cacao chocolate melts and wholesome ingredients like sticky dates which gives that richness and creamy texture to this glorious treat. It is very quick to make, you need only food processor and a freezer
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White Chocolate Festive Rockyroad 100g juicy dried cranberries 60g pistachio nuts, chopped 120g dried chopped apricots,pineapple and other tropical fruit mix with raisins 30g dark chocolate cacao melts, chopped 80g ginger bread cookies (or gingerbread men) broken into pieces 300g white chocolate or white chocolate cacao melts Place all ingredients apart from White cacao melts
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Rich and Fruity Vegan mincemeat (Suet free, refined sugar free, vegan) We all love what is a staple of every Christmas- the iconic mince pies. ever so fragrant and moreish fruity filling incased In crumbly pastry. Sadly, not everyone can enjoy these fragrant Christmas delicacies due to either being Vegetarian or Vegan (traditionally Suet
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Tropical Lemon Meringue Roulade Summer is here, and with it we welcome beautiful tropical fruits and summery holidays reminding flavours. Light and fluffy lemon French meringue wrapped in to bursting with tropical fruit flavour crème patissiere. Flaked almonds gives slight crunchy texture to this airy and light dessert. INGREDIENTS Lemon Meringue 200g egg whites (around
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Banana Marble Bundt Refined sugar free, wholesome flours Let’s go bananas this time and make ourselves this gorgeous and fluffy ‘Banana Marble Bundt’ made using natural Meridian Foods maple syrup as a sweetener, and spelt flour instead of white cake flour. This wholesome bundt is swirled with rich chocolatey cacao rich dough and topped with
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Decadent Chocolate Summer Berry Tart This beautiful rich silky smooth chocolate tart is lying on the bed of sweet crumbly chocolate short crust pasty and has hidden layer of berry jelly, which is slightly sour to cut through the richness of the fine chocolate. Absolutely delightful dessert which can be proudly presented after dinner to
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Chocolate Hazelnut Pudding (Gluten free, Sugar free) Today I am sharing one fabulous- super tasty and super easy recipe to make a dessert just on time for Valentines Day. No baking skills needed , just a little will and effort to impress your loved one 😀 To be honest, it can be made for any
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Nutty Calvados Apple Strudel (refined sugar free, reduced fat) Now that Christmas is coming I’ve gone all creative in festive baking. This is one of the easy and
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Parkin UgneBakes Way Sticky, moist, tasty and ever so comforting, a Traditional Yorkshire Parkin is the stuff of winter nights and bonfires. But, as per usual I added a little twist to mine.. (which most probably many Northerners will slate me for hahaha) but trust me- it does taste as good as original one, well…
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Just Add Anything Rocky Road OK, I know I’m always all about good and healthy and free from and reduced this and that… BUT… today I decided to make one indulgent just add anything treat 😈 it has options for you to improvise too, so if you wishing to do healthier and not so sugary
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Coloured White chocolate and Peanut Butter Cups Makes around 16 cups (depending on the size) We all love chocolate during any festivity- be it birthday, Easter, christening or Christmas. In this case, why not to combine two perfectly matched combos- chocolate and peanut butter? Creamy and sweet Meridian Foods peanut butter filled in colourful white
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Nutty Chocolate Log This incredibly easy to make recipe will leave you repeating it time and time again.. not because of the easiness of it, but because of how good it tastes! Creamy chocolatey and sweet log packed with crunchy digestive biscuits, sharp cranberries and nuts and cheeky hidden marshmallows.. bliss… not only for the
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Lime and Chilli Meringue Pie This beautifully zesty pie is something you might want to refresh your taste buds after heavy meal. Or on the other hand like me, I just love citrussy desserts in general… I find them always so full of flavours and making your taste buds dance with excitement. Chilli gives little edge
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Peanut butter Popcorn and Mulberry rocky road We all have one dessert which we love to whip up with minimum effort, but with a maximum flavour outcome? Here, I am sharing one amazingly easy and beautifully flavoursome rocky road recipe you will thank me for sharing the recipe. INGREDIENTS 45g goji berries 80g dried cherries
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Ultimate Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cookies (Around 12) I know a lot of people don’t tend to, but what I always do- is use only all natural peanut butter in my baking. Meridian smooth peanut butter works just perfectly for these incredibly indulgent chocolate chip peanut butter cookies. I know, they are not the healthiest
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Peppery Rhubarb and Blackberry Pavlova Nest (dairy free)(gluten free) I haven’t made Pavlova or Meringue for a long time. Yesterday after coming back from holidays i found full bush of ripe blackberries in my back garden…so, an idea popped in to my head- why not to make light and beautiful dessert- nest made out of
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Sage, Apple and Raspberry Frangipane (Gluten free, Dairy free) I had some left over gluten free almond short crust pastry sitting lonely in the fridge, so I thought to myself, why not to make something nice and fragrantly fruity for this Easter Afternoon. I ran my eyes through the fridge, and on the bottom shelf
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Fruity White Chocolate Rocky Road I thought I will share a quick and easy recipe so your so eager little ones can help out to make it. It is very simple, keeps children busy making it and the end product will be absolutely delicious! Colourful, filled with different textures- crunchy, soft and chewy. As well
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Rich Chocolatey Tart with Avocado On a Slightly Spicy Chilly and Nut Base Chocolate and Chilli can be a match made in heaven when paired correctly. In this recipe two indeed lives happily ever after – there is a further kink in the tale in that the chocolate ‘genache’ in this tart is indeed made
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Chocolate Fondant (with Raspberry cooley, or scoop of vanilla ice cream) ~~~~~~ INGREDIENTS: 130g plain chocolate (at least 70% cocoa solids), broken into pieces 130g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing 4 large free-range eggs 75g caster sugar 50g self-raising flour, extra for dusting 1 heaped tbsp cocoa powder, extra for dusting METHOD: Melt the
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Biscotti With a Difference (Canesugar free) If I feel something sweet and quick to make, I usually go for biskotti. These crunchy berry and nut filled biscuits are perfect as a snanck with coffee . Date syrup used as a sweetener gives nice colour and rich flavour. Goji berries fills it with ‘super food’ power,
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Apple , strawberry and Nutella Pie On a nutty and rich crust pastry I have this lovely old apple tree in my garden and every year it is filled with the most succulent apples you can think of. This year I have been very busy and nearly forgot about them, as the tree is tucked
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Malted White Chocolate and Orange Cake Soaked in Calvados Can make it as a dairy free with substitute products After a few tiresome and at times stressful weeks, I was searching for some inspiration to do something a little bit different yet simple over the past weekend. Looking through my pantry for ingredients I could
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Cardamon, Rosemary Plum Frangipane Tart When you have Rosemary bush growing in your garden, it is a shame to put it in use… It’s been bugging me to bake something with this beautifully fragrant herb. I had a punnet of nice and juicy Damson variety plums( which are actually perfect for tart making) in the
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Cottage Cheese/Curd Cookies This is one of the traditional recipes made in Lithuania. These cookies are very easy to make and absolutely worth every second spend in the kitchen… Cinnamon infused, soft in the inside and crunchy on the outside little delights. I twisted the original recipe by adding nutmeg, which for me works beautifully
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Madeleines I’ve found this fantastic recipe from the Laduree “Sucre” book. What a beautiful book! The Madeleines came out golden brown around all the edges, slight crispy on the outside, soft and warm on the inside with a hint of lemon. I love that everything is done by hand in this recipe… no stand
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