Archive for the ‘In the kitchen’ Category

Be prepared

Someone just coming up for teatime? Your best friend needs to be welcomed with a cup of tea and some cake? Well, then you’re better off with the base of these tartlets in your freezer. Specially at summer time when I want to prepare my cakes with fruit I often choose my sponge mixture to […]

Pancake rolls again

 I really need to show these two sorts of pancake rolls because they’re really delicious and done in less then 20 minutes. Bake pancake as usual and then spread some garden herbs cream cheese on top. Cover densely with rocket leaves, season with salt and pepper and roll them up tightly. For the second kind […]

Strawberry panna cotta

A tradtional desser you can’t get enough of. For summertime it’s better with fresh fruit than with the usual caramelized sugar. It’s delicious even when it’s very hot because you can prepare it in advance and keep both panna cotta and fruit in your fridge. To serve 4: 6 gelatine leaves (or corresponding quant. of […]

Mini shortbread cups

My last discovery for desserts – small cups of shortbread filled with various sorts of cream. Based on a traditional shortbread recipe you simply have to roll out the pastry at 2-3mm and cut cookies. Your cups will look very nice with a flower shaped cookie cutter but cercles and squares will work too. Place […]

Dessert with ice cream

A perfect combination for the tinkering donkey – vanilla ice cream with strawberries and some delicious mint chocolate thins. An eye candy among desserts. I saw it on theeverybesttop10.com and tried it immediately. For a large group of guests the “ice boxes” should be prepared the previous day. Thus the melted chocolate spread on the […]