French Toast with Blueberry Sauce
It’s breakfast time and french toast is a classic. Any kind of frozen or fresh berries works great with this recipe. Add your favorite syrup or honey and a little bit of melted butter! Top of the morning to ya!
Crackle Chocolate Cookies
Ugly cookies are delicious… and they’re actually pretty. It is the first time I am making this type of cookies, even though I’ve been planning to make them for years now. I try not to bake unless I have a reason, which this time was Saint Nicholas day, and share the sweets immediately after I…
Marbled Chocolate Cake
What can I say? I bought too many chocolate candies for Halloween… and I was eating the leftovers like there was no tomorrow. Since, I still have one third of the bucket full of chocolate candy in the house; I think might be more of a troublemaker, then a problem solver. The cake was really…
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
I baked this banana bread for a friend. Honestly, it was for a friend, but as I am preparing this blog post, I really wish I made one for myself as well. No worries, I still have half a bucket of candies from Halloween. You can find an older recipe for chocolate marbled banana bread…
Brownies with a healthy twist * Negresa cu Avocado
Quick breakfast?! No worries, you’ll be done in no time and you also have leftovers for snacks or next day breakfast. Did I mention that you’ll also check the healthy aspect? And the yummy?! Enjoy! INGREDIENTS: Brownies: 1 ripe avocado 1 ripe banana 3 tbsp pecan flour 3 tbsp all purpose flour…
Apple & pecan coffe cake *Prajitura cu mere si nuci
Mondayzz! Perfect day to continue baking old time favorites, like this apples and pecan simple cake. This was my favorite cake when I was a little girl, so I had to recreate it during this nostalgic cooking period in my life. It’s not the first time I am talking about this…
Mama’s marble sponge cake * Reteta de chec a mamei
This is my mom’s recipe for marble sponge cake. I miss my mom, so I had to make something that would bring me back home …at least smell/ taste/ eat wise. My mom makes the best cakes and sweet breads in the world, of course, and this was just a pale replica of her…
Almond Flour Chocolate Muffins
Mondayzzz! I decided I should start this week with something sweet & delicious, but also guilt & gluten free. In part, this recipe takes inspiration in the project initiated by the nice people at Nuts.com advocating the benefits of almonds consumption. Their page dedicated to almond products, it’s more than any mortal can…
Caramel & Chocolate Birthday Cake * Tort de caramel si ciocolata
My friend celebrated her birthday a few days ago and I wanted to give her something that would remind her of home, so I made a birthday cake and summoned all my patience to decorate it for her. Everybody loved it, or at least that’s what they said! I also had this “epiphany”…
Mini Cheesecakes
How cute are these cheesecakes?! Cute as mini cheesecakes is the new cute as cupcakes…I’m pretty sure that’s an expression, right? Anyhow, they’re super cute and super delicious… because is cheesecake. Besides compared with all the sweets I’ve been baking lately (mendacity, I have no idea what is going on with me!), the mini…
Culinary Epiphany 