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.

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.