Patisserie blog
Last week, I took part of a baking contest organized by the shopping mall Leidsenhage (to be named The Mall of the Netherlands in the future) in Leidschendam. The food market of this shopping center is called Fresh! and for its inauguration, a baking contest […]
Summer is finally here and seems, for once, to like the Netherlands (Dutch people and expats will understand what I mean). To help you cool down a bit but also to celebrate a birthday last week-end, I made this sweet and refreshing mousse cake. […]
I rarely bake the same cake twice in such a short time (1 week!!!) but I could not try the first one so I had to do it again, especially after all the nice compliments I had for the first one. The first […]
Happy New Year !!!! In 2017, I didn’t celebrate New Year’s Eve but New Year’s Eve Eve. For this occasion, I made this delicious cake with a soft almond base, a chocolate mousse and a coconut mousse. I found the original recipe on a blog […]
Definitely one of my favorites French speciality : the “Royal au Chocolat” (also called “Versaillais” or “Trianon”). I tried to find the origin of this cake on Internet or in books but surprisingly, I could not find anything. It’s name would make you think that […]
When someone brought me (huge) vanilla pods from Madagascar, my brain went crazy with all the possibilities I had. I already used vanilla pods before of course but the ones I find in the Dutch supermarkets are usually small, dry and do not contain that […]