Fellow readers, the weather has finally changed and also my mood! No, I’m not in a bad mood 🙂 but with the stormy weather I change into baking mode! With so much wind and rain yesterday, all I could think about was “coffee and cookies”… but the cookie jar was empty! What a good excuse…
Desserts
Ricotta cake
This ricotta cake is inspired in a very popular cake we make in Portugal. We don’t use ricotta but have a similar product called “requeijao” – from what I’ve read, it looks like we can actually say it’s the same think: they have a very similar texture, similar taste and are made from the same…
Strawberry cheesecake
I’m finding Malta to be a strawberry paradise during this time of the year 🙂 and what a better way to celebrate it than by making a delicious Strawberry cheesecake? I totally agree 🙂 I can’t really explain why but for a long time I wasn’t a fan of cheesecake! I wasn’t a fan of…
Chocolate fondant
Now I may not have a sweet tooth but I just love love love chocolate fondant 🙂 Mainly because for me a dessert has to include chocolate… now imagine this fluffy small chocolate souffle, you cut through with the spoon and delicious melted chocolate runs out of it… and you have a scoop of vanilla…
Red velvet cupcakes
Don’t you just love red velvet cake? The bright colour, the softness and the great taste? Well, I do 🙂 I’ve been thinking about baking it for quite a long time. And I finally managed but instead of a cake I decided to make red velvet cupcakes… it looked easier at the time 🙂 My…
Marble cake
Before I start telling you all about my Marble cake, I need to apologise… February is almost finished and I haven’t spoken to you since January and I apologise for that… Don’t think that I haven’t been cooking but put that together with work and family and time just seems to fly away. So my…
Orange and almond cream
In this orange and almond cream I mix two of my favorite flavours. Being a real Mediterranean girl from the south of Portugal, I grew up surrounded by orange and almond trees. In my granddad’s property we had quite a good quantity of orange trees (and also quite a variety of other fruit trees). We…
Tiramissini
Happy New Year!!! and a tiramissini to start with the right foot 🙂 Yes, I’m back from my Italian holidays 🙂 I had a brilliant time, met some really nice people and spent time with my boyfriend’s family. Unfortunately, with the festive days, all the shopping and all the catch up with friends, we didn’t…
Amaretti biscotti with almonds
Following my boyfriend’s love of having a little biscuit or piece of cake with his coffee in the morning, I initiated an online search for the perfect biscuit. Soon to find out that there’s far too many options out there!!! So I changed my strategy… let’s start with what I have around the house first….