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Mango, Passion Fruit and White Chocolate Entremet
My plan is to practice for my taalcoach's raspberry and blueberry mousse cake for December 28 order. Lately, I got bored with berries flavored mousse cake that's why I've decided to make tropical...
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Something like Macaron Tower and a late post about Sinterklaas
Something familiar? Haha yes! this is Ferrero Rocher's Christmas edition container that I got from Sinterklaas last Dec 6. The Sinterklaas feast celebrates the name day, Dec 6, of the Saint Nicholas...
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New Year, New Cakes
My new year's resolution is to make new cakes for Taart etc. as many as I can. Yesterday I made this chocolate and hazelnut entremet. I am still thinking of a name before posting it into my online...
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Raspberry and Pistachio Tart and a Birthday Greeting.
I just want to share these photos with all of you. I made this greeting tart for my taalcoach's birthday. Sadly she didn't had a chance to try the tart. The recipe is from my new cookbook Richard...
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Homemade Salted Eggs
(note: make sure your eggs are fully submerged in brine solution. I added more water after I took this shot.)I started making salted eggs using chicken eggs but lately Pieter became very adventurous...
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Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc finally! I have been planning to make this for quite sometime now but I couldn't make a perfect timing to buy the chestnuts. Last monday Pieter did the grocery and also bought 500 gm of raw...
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My version of Sadaharu AOKI's Valencia
I am really thankful to all those bloggers who are kind enough to share and translate few recipes of Sadaharu Aoki. How I wish there's an english version of his cookbook. Valencia is a orange, nuts and...
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Pretzel and Smoked Salmon Cheesecake
If there is one place in our apartment that I would love to sit the whole day that would be in the kitchen. Seriously, I spend most of the day in the kitchen than in the bedroom or living room. Even I...
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Black Sesame Macarons
I am really looking forward to try black colored macarons eversince I lay my hands on the black powdered food coloring. To be honest the powdered food coloring I ordered online is more expensive than...
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Caramelized White Chocolate
This is for my next week's cake project. For the recipe and instructions please check David Lebovitz website. My caramelized white chocolate is not deep golden brown like David's but it tastes really...
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Polka Dotted Japanese Mocha Roll
Next to macarons, sponge cake is my worst enemy as everytime I bake it, it always shrink, with lots of air bubbles and bits of flour in it. I mentioned in my previous post that I finally found the...
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Powdered Strawberry with Vanilla Bean White Chocolate Macarons
Months ago I posted my homemade dried strawberry powder recipe here. Believe it or not it was still in my cupboard and still ok to use. I searched online about the shelf life of dehydrated fruits, it...
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Dehydrated Fruits
This is what I did last sunday. I dehydrated few pieces of orange, orange peel, raspberries and strawberries. The strawberries, oranges and peel took 8 hours, the raspberries was 22 hours.I grind the...
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Raspberry and Rose Mousse Dessert
I made Rouge Amour mini dome mousse cake for Pieter and this was the leftover raspberry mousse. Rouge (red) Amour (love) is a combination of rose and raspberry and obviously red which is perfect for...
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Rouge Amour
This was the mousse cake I mentioned in my post yesterday. Rouge Amour, the mousse cake I saw from daily delicious blog.Vibrant red is very tempting indeed that is why I've decided to make this as a...
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Ponche Pistachio Macarons
Smooth shiny shell, ruffled foot, foot doesn't poke out, filling stay within the border of the shell. That is how people describe a perfect macaron. Today I tried French meringue method macarons and...
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Choux Pastry
A lot of things I missed in The Philippines: My family, friends, weather (not always but I need it now coz it's cold here in Holland), foods, big malls, the apartment I rented in Las Piñas for almost 6...
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Homemade Coffee Extract
The advantage of making your own food at home allows you to control and use natural ingredients. The disadvantage is since it has no preservatives it will spoil fast. But according to the recipe this...
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Kefta Tagine
Please don't laugh. Last month I bought this super cheap electric tagine from one of the kitchen appliance store here in Holland. Actually I have a terracotta tagine but it was too big and until now I...
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Orange Praline Macarons
This macaron was inspired by Sadaharu AOKI's Valencia, orange, nut and chocolate combo. For the orange flavor I added dried orange peel to the macaron shell and then sprinkled more on top for...
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