Salted caramel is a simple recipe that requires few basic ingredients. There are countless of websites online about salted caramel and the differences between all these…
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Lemon lavender cake loaf
Lemon lavender cake is an excellent treat in anticipation of summer. Think a zesty loaf with a subtle lavender scent. The amount of lavender in…
Gingerbread cheesecake
Ah, gingerbread! It’s not something I’ve always associated with Christmas but now I can’t think of Christmas without pepparkakor anymore. There is no Advent without…
Apple cinnamon mini shortcrust pies
Apple cinnamon pie rhymes with comfort food (no, it doesn’t). But seriously, this might be the most basic pie, yet to so many people it…
Dark chocolate cake with coconut cream
Sweet coconut cream layers of filling in between layers of dark chocolate cake. The cake is entirely covered in coconut flakes, for an extra coconut…
Easy sponge cake recipe
Remember the baking powder I brought back as a souvenir from Iceland (if you don’t, you can read about it here)? Well that tin can…
Raspberry custard tarts
No blueberries this year. What a big disappointment. Last year when my parents visited at the beginning of August, they went out blueberry picking every day…
Oat cream-based zebra cake
In my everlasting quest to make the perfect cakes suitable for my food-intolerant friends and colleagues, I have started exploring oat-based products more and more….
Gingerbread cake
I have this habit that whenever I’m abroad I like to visit local supermarkets. I equally like to have my guests have the same experience,…
Double chocolate banana bread
Making banana bread can be a very good strategy to get rid of overly ripe bananas that had been forgotten or just neglected. There are…
No-bake Oreo cheesecake
Oreo cheesecake has been on my mind for quite some time. I decided the time had come to try and make it when I found…
Stracciatella yoghurt Bundt cake
Honesty talk – how do you think a 1 Kilo tub of stracciatella yoghurt ended up in my fridge? Answer: because it was close to…
Lemony yoghurt loaf cake
There are only a few little pleasures in life that can compare with whipping up an easy cake from scratch. Little effort, few ingredients, a…
A pie for Thanksgiving
The past weekend with my colleagues at the international school we celebrated Thanksgiving. I spent my whole Saturday preparing food, eating, eating, eating some more…
Kladdkaka, the Swedish sticky cake
Kladdkaka, also known as the Swedish gooey cake, or Swedish messy cake. When uncut, it appears as a relatively harmless low chocolatey cake. Cut out…
Chocolate tart
For our soon-to-be-celebrated anniversary, I got a new tart pan from my boyfriend. We picked it on our most recent trip to the Åland islands…
New York style cheesecake
Baked cheesecake is one of my favourite desserts. The first version I have tried in my life is the Polish sernik, often made by my mom…
Sachertorte, my Viennese challenge
It was the spring of 2012, a bunch of lovely warm and sunny April days, and I was finally visiting the capital of Austria with…
Cinnamon sweet bread loaf
What’s not to love about cinnamon buns? They’re the best! The wicked combination of cinnamon, butter and a yeast dough, and then all the icing…
Blueberry tart with a crumbly top
Blueberry tart is a summertime favourite. When the season is right and the bushes in the forests are exploding with the dark and delicious berries…
A belated anniversary hazelnut cake
This blog was started on July 19, 2015. One year later, on the same day, I was too busy travelling back to Sweden to celebrate Electric Blue…
Simple strawberry cake
I am back in Italy, enjoying my summer vacations. I’m back where I started this blog one year ago – WordPress was reminding me that…
Lemon-poppyseed Bundt cake
I made lemon-poppyseed cake a few weeks ago for fika at my Swedish language course. As I mentioned in my previous post I have started attending one…
Mini blueberry pies
Baking smaller versions of tarts in a muffin tin can be great fun. I have uploaded proof of this on this blog when I made miniature…
Fale Dunaju, or Polish apple cake
As I was growing up I used to think that Poland is the country with the richest cake tradition in the world. I had two…
My birthday cake
Today’s my birthday and that means mostly one thing: CAKE! I had a lovely day so far and was even rewarded one extra hour of sleep…
Walnut and chocolate cake
Last week I made another birthday cake. October seems to be a very fruitful month, if you know what I mean (I’m an October-born myself). Anyway,…
Buttercream cake with vanilla custard
Last week a friend celebrated her birthday, but unfortunately that day I was busy and didn’t get to meet her to wish her a happy…
Banana bread with chocolate chips
Banana bread is the best way to rescue overly ripe bananas from the trash. You don’t want to trash good food. So if you are…
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
I have already made carrot cake earlier this year, and every time I eat it I feel like I could have it on a daily…
Lemon and lime meringue pie
A few days ago I prepared some lemon and lime curd. My ultimate intention was to use it to make lemon (and lime) meringue pie….
Small chocolate cake with fresh raspberries
During my vacation in Italy I purchased a super cute cake stand which I’ve been eager to use for a while. The only problem is…
Nectarine and blueberry cake
Nectarines are cheap this week at my local supermarket, so with my latest groceries I took some home. My freezer is full of blueberries I’ve…
Blåbärspaj or Swedish blueberry pie
One year after I moved to Sweden, the study of the language has gone disappointingly not so well. I had planned to do better, and…
Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Everyone has their own sins in the kitchen and mine is butter. It is a staple item in my fridge, no wonder I need to go…
Tiramisù cake
To finish off my Italian vacation I could only go for a classic of the Italian dessert tradition: tiramisù. This was my contribution for a little…
Coconut Bundt cake
I have already mentioned my never-go-wrong muffin recipe, which is my laziest formula for a quick dessert. Among the many virtues of this recipe there is…
Frozen hazelnut mousse cake
Remember the ricotta based no-bake cake I blogged about a few days ago? In the blog post I mentioned that you can substitute chocolate with hazelnut…
Hazelnut mousse cake
Hot Italian summer, 37°C in the shade, a birthday coming up. This calls for a cake that is both refreshing and easy to make in…