A Little Background on this Sweet Shortcrust Pastry Recipe Sweet shortcrust pastry is also known as pâte sucrée. This sweet shortcrust pastry recipe is perfect for custard tarts, cream pies, jammy biscuits and other sandwich cookies. This recipe is pretty easy to do and will make enough for a...
A Little Background on this Enriched Sweet Shortcrust Pastry Recipe Pâte sablée is a crumbly, flaky enriched sweet shortcrust pastry that is perfect for desserts such as custard tarts, sandwich cookies and pumpkin pie. This recipe will make a single pie or tart shell. Before we get to the...
A Little Background on Enriched Shortcrust Pastry This is an enriched shortcrust pastry recipe otherwise known as pâte à foncer. It is very similar to pâte brisée, but is enriched with egg to make the pastry easier to roll out and hold its shape. This traditional short crust pastry recipe is...
A Little Background on this Traditional Shortcrust Pastry Recipe This is a pie shell recipe for shortcrust pastry otherwise known as pâte brisée. This traditional short crust pastry recipe is big enough to make a single pie crust or tart shell. There are four main types of shortcrust pastry...
A Little Guide to Baking 6" Cheesecakes We love cheesecake! And this 6" cheesecake recipe is the perfect size. We love our classic cheesecake recipe but has just become to be too much food as our lives have changed. There simply isn't the need for larger sized desserts at this stage in our lives....
A Little Background on Thumbprint Cookies Thumbprint cookies are one of those old-fashioned yet classic recipes. It is a soft buttery shortbread cookie rolled in toasted chopped nuts and topped with a dollop of your favorite jam in the center. The cookie is not very sweet much like a traditional...
A Little Background on this Easy Dough Recipe with Endless Possibilities We wanted to make an enriched dough recipe that was easy to knead by hand or machine, used a modest amount of dough, tasted delicious on its own and had endless possibilities when it came to making more intricate recipes such...
Puff Pastry Doesn't Need to Be Difficult The traditional puff pastry recipe may be time consuming, but it's worth the effort. In the end, you have 729 laminated layers of crispy and delicate buttery pastry. A lot of people think it is difficult to make your own puff pastry and opt to make a rough...
Happy Anniversary, Ray! Today is Raymond’s 10th anniversary with us and we are absolutely thrilled! To celebrate the good times, we are going to make a limited ingredients dog treats recipe for those puppies like our boy Ray who has dietary restrictions. All our dogs have loved these snacks, not...
A Little Bit About the Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe This is a lovely chocolate cupcakes recipe that is not only delicious, but also easy to make. It is inspired by our equally delicious and fantastically easy chocolate cake. You don't need expensive chocolates to make these fabulous cupcakes, either....
Lemon Cupcakes Recipe - A Cheerful little Dessert! Lemon cupcakes is an old fashioned yet timeless recipe. . Sometimes, when a recipe is perfected, old-fashioned or not, you carry it with you for generations. The bright and cheerful flavor of lemons shines through and is complimented by the tang...
Can There Be a Delicious Dairy-Free Cupcake Recipe? Absolutely! Do you love vanilla cupcakes but can't have dairy? Or perhaps you want a cupcake but don't have any butter or milk in the fridge. Then this vanilla cupcake recipe without butter or dairy will be just up your alley! By using oil...
A Little Guide to Baking Pumpkin Pecan Muffins Pumpkin pecan muffins are hearty, nutty spicy and a just a bit cake like. These pumpkin muffins have a tender but dense crumb and will warm your spirits with lots of cheerful spices and crunchy pecans. This is an old recipe that was nearly lost but...
A Little Guide to Making Old-Fashioned Pumpkin Cake This is my Grandma's old-fashioned pumpkin cake recipe. It is a hearty and somewhat dense texture but also moist and fluffy at the same time. It has just the right amount of sugar and spices to compliment the pumpkin flavor instead of...
Today we will learn how to make clarified butter. In the last few weeks, we learned how to melt butter on the stovetop which was an easy process to do. By taking a little more time, we can clarify butter! What is the purpose of clarified butter? Glad you asked! When you cook with butter, it only...