Caramel, limoncello and White chocolate Cream puffs

I got the recipe for these cream puff from the Great British Bake Off cookbook. It was originally meant to be made into a croquembouche but I didn't have the time so I kept them as single cream puffs. To finish them off, I dipped the tops in caramel which was the base of a praline recipe and sprinkled over some freeze-dried raspberries.

Chocolate peanut butter fudge cupcakes

I got the recipe from here but adapted it slightly and piped out my icing as well as having a peanut butter chocolate fudge core. I did this by using an apple corer to take out the middle of the cupcake then filling it with some fudge sauce.

Peanut butter chocolate fudge sauce

90 g milk or dark chocolate

3 tbsp golden syrup

1/3 cream

1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste

1/3 cup smooth peanut butter

Place the chocolate, golden syrup, cream and vanilla in a saucepan over a very low heat and gently stir till all the chocolate is melted, remove from the heat. Stir in the peanut butter and use when ready. 

coffee :)

There was a little surprise on my coffee this morning!! at penelopes cafe

And this one..... Fratelli Paradiso (Sydney)

 

Walnut Macaroon Galette with summer berries

For dessert tonight, I made a Walnut Macaroon Galette with summer berries. The original recipe i got from here but instead substituted the almonds with walnuts and the lemon zest with orange zest. For the berries on top, I used eldiflower cordial instead of kirsch and orange juice instead of lemon juice, I also added blackberries and raspberries to decorate. Its also nice served with plain whipped cream.

first day of summer lunch

First day of summer!!!! I had my friends around and decided to make a nice fresh healthy lunch to start off summer. I made a strawberry, cranberry, ginger, mango and orange drink and avocado, lettuce, bacon, aioli, mustard, tomato and basil sandwiches. It's all quite simple but made with fresh ingredients which I love. For afternoon tea, i made some caramel, chocolate and banana brownies. I had some left over brownie from the other day so i made some caramel icing by whipping together dulce de leche, cream cheese and icing sugar together, smeared that on top of the brownies along with some sliced banana. 

Banana, Caramel and Vanilla cake

Mini banana caramel cake with vanilla cream cheese icing 

This was for my best friend charlottes birthday, I made it buy using simple banana cake batter and baking it in cupcake tins so they were small. I then cut it in half sideways then placed a dollop of little and fridays recipe for caramel sauce in the middle, piped the cream cheese icing in a ring around the out side and then placed the other half back on top. To finish off I piped peaks of the icing on the top then drizzled some more of the caramel sauce in between the peaks of icing, finally topped with chopped toasted almonds. 

Rose and Raspberry cake

Rose and Raspberry cake 

I made this cake in the weekend for afternoon tea with my friend lily. I got the recipe from here but replaced the rose glace icing with plain vanilla butter icing and only made it one tier . I also made my own homemade raspberry jam for the filling.