New recipe 8 Copy cat Boisette

Our baker makes delicous cakes. Most of them are full with cream of all sorts (chocolate, pistache, ....) and off limit for me. One of the cakes they make is a boisette and we tried to copy the recipe at home. It is a mix of pie dough, home made jam and genoise cake.

Preparation:
Make a pie dough, pre-bake it in the oven for some 20 minutes. Remove from the oven, cover with home made jam and the genoise batter. Bake for approximately 30 minutes more. Dust with icing sugar.

24 March

New recipe 7 Apple cake

We were invited at a friend's place and offered to bring desert.
One desert was our copycat cake "boisette" and the second cake was an apple cake. Why two cakes? Well we are five and I wasn't sure if all four kids at their side were going to be there or only two. In the end there were "only" two so we were nine in total.

Both cakes were very appreciated.

Ingredients apple cake:
130 gr soft butter
3 - 4 apples
3 eggs
150 gr sugar
30 gr apple juice (the original recipe asks for an alcoholic drink such as snaps
200 gr flour
half a sachet baking powder (1 teaspoon)
a pinch of salt
optional: icing sugar for decoration


Preparation:
1) Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C
2) Butter the baking tin
3) Peal the apple and cut in four parts, remove the core and make slight incisions on the outer side
4) Prepare the batter by beating the soft butter with eggs, sugar, flour, apple juice and baking powder
5) Pour the batter in the cake tin and place the apples up-side down in the batter
6) Bake for 30 - 40 minutes

24 March

New recipe 5: Mascarpone cakes

One can never have too many cake tins, ...... especially with three kids. As much as time allows in my busy schedule I try to make home make "4-hour" snacks for the kids that they take to school. For several reasons: 1) Alesya does not like most of the ready make cookies/cakes; 2) home made cakes are healthier as they do not have loads of colourings and preservatives; and 3) my kids just love it when I bake for them, or in the case of Slava he just loves to help me.

As I cannot make the same cakes over and over, I used this mascarpone recipe that was given with the new cake tin I had bought allowing to make five different little cakes at a time. The basic recipe is easy to make and to adapt to any flavour.

Ingredients:
3 eggs
250gr sugar
250gr of mascarpone
300gr flour
1/2 sachet of baking powder


Preparation:
Beat the eggs with the sugar until light and fluffy
Mix in the mascarpone
Add the flour and baking powder
Fill the cake tin and choose a different topping for each cake

1) add a teaspoon of unsugared cacao and mix gently
2) add lemon rind and lemon juice of half a lemon, mix gently and sprinkle with coconut
3) add chocolate chips and mix gently
4) add lemon rind and lemon juice of half a lemon, mix gently
5) add two table spoons of praline

Bake for some 20 minutes at 170 degrees C.


27 January

New recipe 2: Lemon cake with creme fraiche

I had made goulash and still had creme fraiche left over. I did not want to throw it out, nor eat it straight out of the pot (I so love the taste of creme fraiche and I so should stay away from it due to my lactose intolerance). Baking with creme fraiche is the perfect way to use it up and I went online to look for a recipe. I came across a recipe for a Lemon and Crème Fraiche Cake at Honest Cooking and decided to give this cake a try.

The original recipe calls for 1 cup of creme fraiche, however I had easily 1.5 cups of creme fraiche and adjusted the recipe to:

Ingredients
3/4 c vegetable oil
3 eggs
vanilla sugar
1/4 c of lemon juice
1 3/4 c of sugar
2,5 c of flour
1 sachet of baking powder
1,5 c of creme fraiche

Preparation
Mix the oil, eggs, vanilla sugar, juice, creme fraiche and sugar
sift flour and baking powder ad add to the mixture
Bake 60 min at 160degrees C(or longer as needed)

The taste was delicious, the kids loved it and took a slice to school as their after school snack