Tuesday, December 24, 2024

TWD - Rugelach with Four Fillings


 This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Rugelach with Four Fillings. I made a half batch with one filling.

I chose the cream cheese, apricot ham and chocolate chip filling.

I found the dough a little challenging to work with, but the resulting biscuits are delicious.

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

Merry Christmas to all!



Tuesday, December 10, 2024

TWD - Orange Spice Cake

This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Orange Spice Cake. This cake is made in an unusual fashion by adding eggs to fragrant orange sugar, and adding melted butter after that.



There is an optional marmalade glaze - who am I kidding, a glaze is not optional! It makes the cake pretty and shiny and adds moisture and flavour.

I really love the crusty outside of this cake - like a yummy biscuit.

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

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

TWD - Maple Walnut Tart



 

This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Maple Walnut Tart.


I couldn’t be bothered trying to make pastry in the heat, so I filled a store bought pie crust with the filling.

It turned out beautifully- such a delicious tart, even my mum liked it.

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


Tuesday, November 12, 2024

TWD - Tarte Tatin


 This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Tarte Tatin. Dorie makes this version with tart dough rather than puff pastry.

This dessert was tasty, but I found that the caramel made the pastry a bit soggy by the time I came to eat it. I think that puff pastry holds up better.

It is very hot weather here, so working with pastry is challenging.

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


Tuesday, October 22, 2024

TWD - Apple Galette

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Apple Galette. This simple free form fruit tart is the epitome of delicious. 


A flaky, crispy galette dough encases delicious sliced apples sitting on a bed of apple sauce. The apples are glazed with honey post- bake.


I didn’t make my own apple sauce - I just used the jarred variety. I used Granny Smith apples in the filling.

I really enjoyed this scrumptious tart - the pastry was lighter and crispier than apple pie dough, and was the perfect vehicle for the juicy sliced apples.

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

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

TWD - Morning Bundt Cake


This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Morning Bundt Cake. It is so called because it contains lots of breakfast ingredients - muesli, yoghurt, orange juice, dried fruit and nuts.


This recipe makes quite a large cake, but it’s big and beautiful. The hot cake is brushed with a citrus juice syrup, which emphasises the orange flavour from the orange chunks and zest in the cake.



I really enjoyed this cake - much more than I thought I would. The tea towel my cake is a displayed on was a gift from a friend’s New Zealnd trip and it is beautiful.

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


Tuesday, September 24, 2024

TWD - Fig and Goats Cheese Tart

This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Fig and Goat’s Cheese Tart.

You can see there are no figs here - I used one of the alternative fruits suggested by Dorie, pears, as figs are not in season here. I did find imported figs - but 6 figs were going to cost $31!!



This tart comprises a short crust tart shell filled with a goats cheese and yoghurt filling, topped with baked diced pears and fresh diced vinegarised pears.

The filling is delicious and quite versatile - sans the salt and pepper, it would go well with sweet fillings too.

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


Tuesday, September 10, 2024

TWD - Buttermilk-Molasses Quick Bread

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe  is Buttermilk-Molasses Quick Bread.

In my case, it’s actually Soured Milk-Maple Syrup Quick Bread. 



 This is a savoury quick bread, containing spices such as star anise and fennel.

It also contains an array of flours, including rye flour and whole wheat flour.

This quick bread was good served sliced with lashings of butter.

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



Tuesday, August 27, 2024

TWD - Caramel Crunch-Chocolate Chunklet Cookies


 This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Caramel Crunch-Chocolate Chunklet Cookies. There is no actual caramel in these cookies - just caramelised sugar and butter with walnuts and chocolate chunks.

These cookies are baked in a muffin tin after being cut from a dough log, to help give them a round shape.

They were tasty cookies, and if you are a fan of chocolate chip cookies, you will likely like these.

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



Tuesday, August 13, 2024

TWD - Alsatian-Style Blueberry Tart

This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Alsation-Style Blueberry Tart. A shortcrust pastry shell houses blueberries and a creamy custard.



It’s as delicious as it sounds. To see what everyone else made this week and their thoughts on it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

TWD - Parfait-Layered Vacherin


This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Parfait-Layered Vacherin. This is a frozen dessert featuring layers of creamy parfait and meringue, topped with caramel sauce and toasted almonds.


Although I would have preferred to buy my meringues and caramel sauce, I couldn’t buy either at my local shops, so I had to make them.

I made a third of the recipe to get two single serve vacherins. 

This dessert was delicious, but unless I could buy the meringues and caramel sauce, I wouldn’t make it again.

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

 

 

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

TWD - Lemony Yoghurt Muffins

 

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Lemony Yoghurt Muffins.

This recipe is exactly what it says on the tin. Dorie encourages add ins, so I added some chopped cherries that I had frozen to preserve them when I went on holidays. 


What’s not to like about a good old fashioned uffin. The citrus flavour is amped up by rubbing the zest into the sugar before adding to the mixture.

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


Tuesday, June 25, 2024

TWD - Strawberry-Rhubarb Squares

This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Strawberry-Rhubarb Squares. It’s summer in the US, so this recipe is a great way to showcase summer fruit. It’s winter here, so I am enjoying summer vicariously through baking.



 This is a delicious cake which has a high proportion of fruit to cake. The fruit is not sugared so its tartness contrasts with the sweet honey and buttermilk cake.

I found the batter challenging to spread over the recommended 9” pan - it is only a thin layer and it takes quite a bit of work to make it cover the pan.

This cake was delicious served with a dollop of Greek yoghurt.

To see what everyone else made this week and their thoughts about it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

TWD - Jelly Roll


 This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Jelly Roll.  It comprises a light sponge, rolled when still hot out of the oven, then once cooled, filled with ostensibly jelly.


I rebelled and filled my half recipe sponge roll with lemon curd. I am going to serve it for dessert, warmed, with custard. Yum!

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


Saturday, June 1, 2024

TWD - Gouda Gougeres


 This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was Gouda Gougeres.

The easiest way to explain these is to describe them as savoury cheese choux buns.

I used sesame seeds instead of cumin seeds to decorate my gougeres. My gougeres were also apparently much bigger than they were supposed to be - I made a half recipe expecting about 25 gougeres, when I in fact made 8.

These gougeres were delicious, fresh from the oven.

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




Tuesday, May 14, 2024

TWD - Cream Puffs with Crackle and Cream


This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Cream Puffs with Crackle and Cream.

As the name suggests, these are choux buns with crackle tops and filled with cream.

The buns turned out quite well:


The crackle is absolutely  delicious - I’d make it again.

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

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

TWD - Double-Decker Salted Caramel Cake


This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Double-Decker Salted Caramel Cake. Dorie describes this as caramel upon caramel, and she’s right - a caramel cake is filled and frosted with caramel icing. However, as she rightly says, the slight bitterness of the caramel means that the cake is not too sweet.
 

The cake is cut in half and filled with icing to make it double decker. The icing is made with icing sugar and homemade caramel sauce. For some contrast, I topped my cake with white chocolate bits.


This is a moist, light cake with yummy caramelised edges, and the gooey caramel frosting adds that bit extra. I liked this cake, but wouldn’t go so far as saying I loved it. It’s one for the caramel lovers.

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

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

TWD - Goat Cheese-Black Pepper Quick Bread


 This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Goats Cheese-Black Pepper Quick Bread.

This involves making a simple quick bread, and mixing through goats cheese chunks and chopped mint.

I quartered the recipe to make four muffins instead of a single large loaf.

This quick bread is absolutely delicious - I highly recommend it.

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


Tuesday, March 26, 2024

TWD - Breakfast-In-Rome Lemon Cake


 This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Breakfast-In-Rome Lemon Cake. Dorie developed this recipe to produce a cake which mimicked a cake she ate daily as a treat in Rome.


The cake is a lemon sponge made with oil instead of butter. Dorie’s beloved version was completely plain, but she suggests adding berries in summer. I added blackberries to my cake.


Dorie suggests that this cake be served with just a dusting of icing sugar. However, as it is nearly Easter, I adorned my cake with a lemon glaze and mini Easter eggs.

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



Tuesday, March 12, 2024

TWD - Parisian Custard Tart

This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Parisian Custard Tart. It comprises a puff pastry shell filled with vanilla pastry cream (with a dash of rum), cooked until the custard has dark brown patches on top.

Dorie says that Parisians eat these tarts as a snack on the go - sounds like my kind of treat.


I made rough puff pastry as I don’t use much puff pastry usually, and that seemed to work just fine.

The custard is not for the faint hearted, as it uses 4 eggs. I was very pleased when the custard worked out so that those eggs and the 750ml of milk in the custard were not wasted. 

Mine took 20 minutes longer in the oven than stated in the recipe.



 The end result is a beautifully smooth silky custard tart, none too sweet, with a crispy puff pastry vehicle to deliver it. Devine.

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

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

TWD - Copenhagen Rye Cookies with Chocolate, Spice and Seeds

This week’s Tuesdays With Dorie recipe is Copenhagen Rye Cookies with Chocolate, Spice and Seeds, inspired by cookies that Dorie had in Denmark.

My seed mix was flax, sunflower and sesame seeds.

How good do these cookies look:



 They tasted delicious, and I really enjoyed them. There’s quite a few steps to making them but I was pleased with the end result.

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

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

TWD - Potato Flake Biscuits

 



This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Potato Flake biscuits. These biscuits are a savoury scone containing instant potato mash flakes, herbs, parmesan and paprika.


I am not usually a savoury scone fan, but these were very tasty. I made a half batch of dough, which produced three large biscuits.

I liked them just as they are with nothing on them. I also liked them as a vehicle for a breakfast sandwich with cheese, egg and spinach.

I would make these again.

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

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

TWD - Spinach Mozarella Pie with Parm Crumble

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Spinach Mozarella Pie with Parm Crumble.


This pie is a quiche with parmesan crumble topping. I used the savoury galette dough for my tart shells. I didn’t want to be eating this all week, so I quartered the recipe make two mini pies.



These pies turned out quite well, and look very pretty. Perhaps I’d make this recipe again for a picnic. Note the pastry and crumble must be made a couple of hours in advance, so plan accordingly if you make this.

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

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

TWD - Chunky Lemon Cornmeal Cake


 This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Chunky Lemon Cornmeal Cake. It is so called because it contains chopped lemon pulp as well as lemon zest, together with cornmeal. Oh, and it contains sumac!


Yep, those specks in the cake are from sumac.

Although this cake is completely unadorned, it’s big on flavour. The cornmeal adds texture to the lemon flavoured crumb.

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