French “Sunday” Apple Tart

Another family favorite is my apple tart served with vanilla ice cream.Here are the chefs steps to success this tart every time. The apples you choose are crucial, if i can’t find the right apples, i don’t make the tart.The variety must be cooking apples , but every region might have a different nae or…

Breakfast Muesli for Agnès & Maria

Today 2 friends asks me for my Muesli recipe so i rushed home to make a batch and but it online!As you see in the photo, it can be made either with milk or soy products with the same results. This is my son Gaetan’s favorite breakfast with an added dash of some cinnamon before serving…

Quick Chocolate Tempering in the microwave

Temper chocolate in microwave oven The objective of the tempering chocolate is to pre-crystallize the cocoa butter chocolate, this being related to the use of the chocolate temperature. During tempering, the chocolate, cocoa butter takes a stable crystal form. It ensures the hardness, strength, shrinkage and gloss of the finished product once cooled. If the…

Tea Time Cookies

Tea time in the afternoon is a the perfect occasion to prepare a table of goodies to nibble from sandwiches, savory eclairs to scones , cakes and cookies. I made these “Tea bag” cookies for a friends birthday. It was fun to add the personalized tags and box to match.Use my Roll out cookie dough recipe.Then use…

Healthy Chocolate cake, no Butter no oil

Ingredients (no butter or oil) • 100 gr zucchini ( half a medium sized zucchini) •2 eggs •75 gr sugar 1 sachet of vanilla sugar • 100 gr melted dark chocolate 64 % • 10 gr cocoa • 50g flour • 1/2 tsp baking powder ¼ tsp baking soda •1 pinch of salt 1.Preheat oven to 180 °…

Chocolate lovers Hot Chocolate

Here are the simple secrets to making European style  hot chocolate.Use quality chocolate of at least 55% cacao, good chocolate always creates yummy results. Any milk can be used to make hot chocolate from skim,2% ,almond or even soy milk. But using whole milk with all its’ fat give the most unctuous chocolate.Adding a touch…

Designer Halloween Cookies

Halloween is one of my favorite Holiday celebrations. Maybe it is because it is in Autumn, i love fall, or because of the pumpkins , abondance of cinnamon, apples and loads of Kids in costumes. We always go all out to decorate the house and put out a buffet spread for the neigborhood friends. These…

Moon pies

These are a southern classic treat that are still found in shops and in store bought packaged brands. My son loves marshmallow AND chocolate  so he really loved these moon pies that very much resemble his much loved summer treat , S’mores , which use all the same ingredients. These moon pies have a homemade…

Sailboat Icing Sugar Cookies

First i make a paper template to adjust the size and draw on all the details. Keep the details clean. The edges are piped on with a bag then filled with a thinned down icing to flow in. The flags are made of fondant paste & personalized with Swedish flag and family’s name initial.  

Kathleen’s Fruitcake

The holiday season is full of wonderful traditions. Fruitcake is one of them, but lets be honest, a little portion of fruitcake goes a long way! So i make small fruitcakes that i can offer or present on a dessert buffet. This recipe always gets rave comments because it is not too sweet and i use…

Cinnamon Buns

We all love a good gooey cinnamon bun, but who has the time to make yeast dough? My solution is to make these when you have the time, then freeze the raw pre-cut rolls .When you want to bake them ; you remove the quantity you desire from the freezer the night before, and let them…

Family Favorite Chocolate Pudding

I remember this  as being my brother Brian’s favorite dessert, and now my husband & son love it too . the only difference is that now i make it with fresh ingredients where as growing up we only used the chocolate pudding powder mix in the package.It was good , no one complained, but this is…