TWD - Candied Almond Tart

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Candied Almond Tart. It is a Portugese treat of a cinnamon flavoured tartshell, filled with caramel and almonds.

It is not hard to make - the pastry just presses into the tin and is not pre-baked, and as long as you remember to pour in and spread the filling quickly to avoid premature setting, it is also easy to make.

 Here is the finished product - wall to wall almonds and caramel. Yum!

To see what else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

TWD - Tea and Honey Madeleines

 This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Tea and Honey Madeleines. Browned butter is infused with earl grey tea, and mixed into the batter with honey. There was also clementine zest in the recipe to flavour the sugar - I ised mandarin zest instead.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

TWD - Berry Yogurt Cake

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Anytime Cakes) recipe is Berry Yogurt Cake. How good is this cake! It’s my definition of an anytime cake.

 This cake is a classic French yoghurt cake, jazzed up with berries - in my case, blueberries and blackberries. There is also lemon zest in the batter, which riffs well with berries.

You could have iced the cake with an icing sugar glaze, but Dorie invited us to glaze it with jam or nothing at all. I like the shine from a jam glaze, so I used a little apricot jam warmed in the microwave with a splosh of water to glaze my cake.

This cake is so good - easy and quick to make (no mixer required), and super juicy and tasty. You can mix it up with different berries and fruits, or leave them out altogether, and ice it, glaze it or not - the ultimate LBD of cakes.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD  website.

TWD - Chocolate-Tipped Cream Puff Pocky Sticks

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Chocolate-Tipped Cream Puff Pocky Sticks (quite a mouthful!).

As the name suggests, the recipe involves making cream puff (choux) pastry, and piping it into 6” strips before baking:

 Once the pocky sticks are cool, chocolate is drizzled over the end, and they are decorated with sprinkles or sugar. I made the matcha white chocolate glaze fir my pocky sticks and decorated them with pink and white hundreds and thousands.

These pocky sticks are easy to make, albeit a little fiddly. They tasted quite good too.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

TWD - Olive Oil Brownies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Olive Oil Brownies. These brownies contain olive oil instead of butter as the key fat component. They are also flavoured with black pepper, and contain dried fruit. Instead of raisins, I used dried strawberries that I had randomly purchased with no particular use in mind.

The reviews from my fellow bakers on these brownies were mixed, but I liked them. They were not super squidgy, but they were fudgy, which suited me just fine. The dried strawberries baked up well and were a nice contrast to the chocolate.

To see what everyone else baked this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

TWD - Gemma Cakes

 This week’s Tuesday with Dorie (Dorie’s Everyday Cakes) recipe is Gemma Cakes. The recipe for these little cakes was created by Dorie for her oldest granddaughter’s first birthday, hence the name.

There are chunks of strawberry in the white chocolate, vanilla and rose flavoured batter, as Gemma loves strawberries.

The cakes are decorated by dipping them in melted white chocolate mixed with a little olive oil, and topped with sugar sprinkles. I used tiny little flowers that make the collection of cakes look like a garden, and unicorn sprinkles.

Here’s a peek inside:

These cakes are just so pretty - they epitomise what I love. They also taste good, and you can mix up the choice of berries that you use, or not use them at all.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

TWD - Twist Loaf

This week’s Tuesday with Dorie (Baking with Dorie) recipe is Twist Loaf. Dorie takes her Daily Bread recipe and makes it fancy, with a cocoa/spice/sugar/cranberry filling and braiding.

 

It looks really complicated to make, but it was actually quite easy with the instructions in the recipe. It turned out very impressive looking.

The loaf was most delicious served warm on day 1. It was fine afterwards toasted, but the magic is on Day 1, so make sure you share it.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.