Use your over ripe bananas in this fragrant, super moist and easy banana bread. You can add nuts, chocolate chips or dried raisins.
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Continue ReadingThe most delicious, the creamiest, easiest cream cheese frosting! We use it on our carrot cake and on our cinnamon rolls. It’s so yummy!
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Continue ReadingBeirut on my mind today. This fragrant, chewy fig jam is made using dried figs. It makes me reminisce of lavish Lebanese brunches and lazy halloum and fig jam sandwiches for dinner on the balcony. The lovely Marilyne of @thesweethobby kindly gave me her mom’s recipe to share with you all. Step by step in my highlights, recipe below:Fig jam
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Continue ReadingWith the weather slowly cooling down and the garden filling up with (socially controlled) giggles, these chestnut mousse cups seem like the perfect individually-served dessert that remind us of winter celebrations. It is super easy to whip up, using only 3 simple ingredients. You can decorate it with crushed pieces of ready made meringues and grated chocolate shards.
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Continue ReadingI’m posting the recipe early so you can manage to bake it today if needed! The filling is based on the @hummingbirdbme with a couple of tweaks. The pastry crust is from the book #agoodbake by Melissa Weller. (Thank you Raja @lesmauvaisgarcons for your help)
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Continue ReadingThis cake is the epitome of childhood. It is simply delicious, quick and will take you back in time to your mom’s kitchen. Recipe below. Based on the recipe by Margaret Fulton
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Continue ReadingThe easiest and flakiest crostata or galette dough! This is based on a recipe by @inagarten. The secret to flakiness is to keep the butter from melting into the dough, we almost want to see the butter in the dough.
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Continue ReadingThis crust is everything! Its a flaky, melt in your mouth, crispy pastry that works perfectly well for sweet tarts! As always the secret is to use super cold butter, icy cold water and to knead it the most minimally possible. Recipe below . Based on @huckcafe
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Continue ReadingMy mom asked me for a simple chocolate cake recipe to do during lockdown in Lebanon so this one automatically came to my mind. Don’t be fooled by its fancy appearance, this cake is moist, light and so delicious. It is also so easy to make.