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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.