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Recipe: Ladyfingers (Savoiardi/Biscuits cuillère)
I’m sure very few amateur bakers have had a shot at making ladyfingers. It’s the typical product you just buy ready made in supermarkets. When I tell people I make my own ladyfingers, I get surprised...
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Recipe: Traditional Tiramisù
Don’t ask me how this blog existed so far without a Tiramisù recipe. There’s simply no excuse! This is one of the most famous desserts in the world, yet it is quite recent. Apparently (but you know, in...
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Recipe: Charlotte with red fruits
Oh, sweet Charlotte! I’m particularly proud of this post because it really shows that I am improving on the road to pastry. A couple of years ago, I discovered the existence of a dessert called...
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Recipe: Marble cake
It was the end of a lazy Sunday afternoon when I felt the need of a cake (ok, I admit it is not so unusual for me). Since I was undecided, I opted for two cakes in one! I chose the marble cake, a great...
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Recipe: Modern vanilla poundcake (Quatre quarts/Torta paradiso)
The poundcake, or “quatre quarts” as they call it in French, is the traditional cake everyone is (or should be) able to make and is usually characterized by the simplicity of its ingredients: 1/4...
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Recipe: Chocolate mirror glaze
This is one of the pastry “secrets” that differentiate a home-baker from a “pro”. I’m talking about this super-shiny chocolate mirror glaze! As you can see above, there is indeed a reason if it’s...
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Recipe: Chocolate Royal cake (“Trianon”)
So yes, last month I celebrated my birthday. 29 years. For the third time. For some, a birthday is a bit like New Year’s Eve: time of self-analysis, goal-setting and celebration. Personally, I only...
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Recipe: Tiramisu-shi
I haven’t been baking that much lately. I’d like to think it’s more because the weather has been insanely hot rather than because I’ve been insanely lazy. Ok, maybe it’s for both reasons. And it’s...
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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...
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A 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...
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The 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...
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Framboisier (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...
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My 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...
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Video: 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...
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How 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...
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How 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...
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Chocolate 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...
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No-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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