For French Friday with Dorie this week, we used up one of our precious remaining dessert recipes, and made Gateau Basque. This is a traditional Basque region cake made up of two pastry discs sandwiching either cherry jam or pastry cream.
I went the non-traditional route and used delicious Bon Maman raspberry jam for my filling. I used a 9" pan, which made my gateau shorter than in the book, but I thought it was delicious anyway:
This cake was easy and simple to make, and was so good just as it was.
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I love how this is sandwiched together with raspberry jam! It does look very French and like a great dessert xx
ReplyDeleteI love how buttery this cake is! :D
ReplyDeleteThis looks perfect!
ReplyDeleteYes, this was good! I went for mini cake version of it!
ReplyDeleteI filled mine with pastry cream, but Bill would have loved your tweak with raspberry jam! Lovely!
ReplyDeleteThis was way simpler than I thought it would be!
ReplyDeleteIt is sad how few desserts are left in this book :-(
Somehow, I don't think I knew about this dish. I think I'd love it so I don't know why! Your version looks great.
ReplyDeleteThis looks delicious! what a wonderful dessert.
ReplyDeleteGaye, I posted a comment but do not know if it "took." I'll check back later because I want to comment on your nice post. I also loved this cake.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, what's not to love. I look forward to making again.
ReplyDeleteThis was so good! I did go with the cherry jam, but I went raspberry picking and made raspberry jam last weekend, so I'll make raspberry when I do this next. Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteIt was so lovely and delicious! I used 6.5 inch rounds and still felt it was a little shorter than the book but loved it anyhow!
ReplyDeleteI love how flat the pastry is- makes it seem easier to eat (like a sandwich!) haha :) It looks really delcious too! Really love pastry, so I love the ratio of pastry to filling!
ReplyDeletebuttery pastry and raspberry jam sounds like a great combination
ReplyDeletethis would be wonderful with raspberry!
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ReplyDeleteYour cake looks beautiful! And I agree, what's not to love? I made mine the same size, and used home made strawberry... I thought it was delicious too - and surprisingly easy!!
We did use up one of our precious remaining desserts, but what a tasty looking one! Yours was no exception! : ) Great job!
ReplyDeleteThis looks really tasty with the respberry jam. Loved how easy this was.
ReplyDeleteIt has been fun to read about all the different fillings that everyone is using. All the different flavors of jams and preserves could keep me in business for a long time. I've got a jar of lemon curd in my pantry. How about that mixed with a raspberry or cherry jam. Whether it was 8" or 9" doesn't make much difference, it was delicious, huh?
ReplyDeleteGaye, raspberry jam for the filling sounds wonderful - this is a very versatile recipe! Very nice looking gâteau basque!
ReplyDeleteThis is my kind of cake - it looks so buttery and golden!
ReplyDeleteI used that same filling ! Yum indeed. Yours looks so wonderful - I am sure you enjoyed it like we did too ;)
ReplyDeleteRaspberry sounds like a wonderful flavour for this gateau!
ReplyDeleteThe Gateau Basque looks fabulous. I like how you refer to it "as the last precious dessert recipes..." and I would agree...dessert first! lol Nice photo.
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