Swedish sticky cake kladdkaka has been rising in popularity, so here comes a variation. Cheesecake kladdkaka is a kladdkaka with a cream cheese swirl on…
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Crustless ricotta cheesecake with canned peaches (gluten free)
This crustless ricotta cheesecake with canned peaches is a lovely alternative to cream cheese cheesecake. Italian ricotta cheese gives this crustless cheesecake a lighter texture….
Dark chocolate cheesecake with raspberries
Although a big fan of New York style cheesecake, I always end up making no-bake cheesecake more often. It’s cool to skip the oven from…
No-bake Oreo cheesecake
No-bake Oreo cheesecake is all that is good in life. Who doesn’t love Oreos? I mean: cookies and cream cheesecake, enough said. Let this sweet thought…
Chocolate pumpkin Bundt cake with homemade pumpkin purée
Want to make a pumpkin cake but you’re tired of pumpkin pie? Are you looking for a different kind of recipe when it comes to…
Salted caramel sauce
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…
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 with a Lotus Biscoff base
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
This easy sponge cake recipe is one of my best secrets to perfect cake making. Of course everyone will focus on the filling and decoration…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
