Recipe: Chocolate lava cake with salted caramel core
Well, well, well, where were we? It seems like an eternity since I last posted a recipe. Truth is… I was on holiday. But just for two weeks, then I got lazy for a while, until tonight! Now that the...
View ArticleA birthday rainbow cake
My friend Gillian is very easy to please: she just likes complicated cakes!!! Before I had this blog, she commissioned me a “Rubik’s cube” cake for her birthday, then came the real St. Honoré, which is...
View ArticleThe Opéra cake
I admit I’m totally late in posting this on my blog: I made an Opéra cake for my friend’s New Year’s Eve party and now we’re almost in summer! Needless to say that this cake disappeared way before...
View ArticleFramboisier (Creamy raspberry cake)
I’ve had quite a busy time in the last weeks. I was abroad for work for around 20 days, went to a wedding in Italy and then my parents visited me here in Cannes. Very little or no time for baking, but...
View ArticleMy very first video: Tiramisù (with pasteurised eggs)
Guys, you simply cannot imagine how excited I am about this post! First of all, I’ve just made the most amazing tiramisù ever! But I also took a video while I was making it… so I am very proud to...
View ArticleVideo: Carrot cake
I could not explain how, but my colleagues framed me and forced me to make a carrot cake for a team event in the office. I mean, I don’t usually have problems baking, but this carrot cake is as...
View ArticleHow to make a dark chocolate cake with a white chocolate core
Good artists borrow, great artists steal. Now I am very modest (of course, what were you thinking!) but I think I’ve come out with a great recipe and all I did was stealing separate parts from...
View ArticleHow to make a modern version of a classic: Black Forest
If you have followed some of my previous posts, you know I like elaborated cakes with many different layers. Yes, the kind of cakes that make me say “Challenge accepted!”. Now that I’m filming my...
View ArticleChocolate madeleines
Way before coming to France, I knew of small pastries called madeleines. And the reason, strangely, is because I studied a bit of French literature in high school. When the lecture is about Proust and...
View ArticleNo-bake cheesecake with fig and damson plum confit
September is the month of figs and Damson plums. Believe it or not, this is the first time in my life that I buy figs! I’m not a big fan of this fruit… and every time I tasted it in the past, it was...
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