Tuiles

Inspired by The Great British Bake Off series, I followed Mary Berry’s recipe for these beautiful chocolate/vanilla tuiles.
A template for shaping the tuiles mixture before baking is recommended to obtain a thin layer. You can buy it, or try making one by cutting circular holes in a sheet of silicone or plastic.
These biscuits are baked quickly and shaped as soon as they come out of the oven.

A tuile to complete my dessert of red wine poached pear and ice cream.

Vol-au-vents with crème patissière and fresh raspberries.

Using the same puff pastry for the mille feuilles, I have made some Vol-au-vents.
I filled them with  crème patissière and topped with a whole raspberry.

 My platter of puff pastries for tea:)

Mille-feuilles (Napoleons)

This a a French patisserie classic made  up of layers of  buttery puff pastry and crème patissière.

I made the puff pastry from scratch and although tedious, it yielded great results.It tasted great.

Puff pastry was first rolled out and cut into equal length rectangles and baked:

Assembly#1 Raspberry mille feuille: 

3 layers of puff pastries with 2 layers of crème patissière with fresh raspberries.

Assembly#2 Classic mille feuille: 

3 layers of puff pastries with 2 layers of crème patissière and topped with glacé icing.

 

Mooncakes for Mid Autumn Festival

  Snow skin with chestnut filling

 Matcha snow skin - Chestnut filling with pinenuts

Mont Blanc aux marrons

It is a dessert of puréed, sweetened chestnut cream over a meringue.
The name comes from Mont Blanc, as it resembles the famous snow-capped mountain.

Construction of  Mont Blanc:

Circular cake base with meringue.

Secure meringue with chocolate ganache.

Pipe chestnut cream; covering the whole of meringue.

Fasten decorative dollie to base

Dust with icing sugar for that snow effect.

Yum!

Macarons, macarons....macarons

First batch:
Macarons with peanut butter and ganache filling

Second batch:
Macarons with lemon curd and buttercream

Third batch:
Macarons with vanilla buttercream

Lemon merigue tart

Using the recipe from Joyofbaking.com, I baked these beautiful tarts for saturday lunch desserts.

Oreo Triple chocolate brownies 


Oreo cookies with milk has always been a great treat for my daughter.
I added Oreo cookies in this already wonderful triple chocolate brownie recipe.
I adapted this recipe from Baked bakery cookbook.
I blended the Oreo cookies without the creme into crumbs and added into the batter.
Broken pieces of wholeOreo cookies were also added into the batter before baking.

Heart shaped brownie topped with a whole cookie and strawberry.

Ready to pack into the sweet little carriers as a gift.

Tartes aux pommes Parisienne

(Paris style apple tart) II

Another Paris style apple tarte:
Attempted to create paper thin slices of apple with the mandoline but the results are not that great. 
I preferred thicker slices of apple.