– Click here for this recipe in Dutch -> Verwen brownies –
I remember it well, the moment we told our families that I was pregnant. It turned out I wasn’t the only one, my sister
Tag: cake
Elderflower cake with whipped chocolate ganache
– Click here for this recipe in Dutch -> Vlierbloesem cake met chocolade ganache –
It’s been a while since I made this cake for a meeting of the LA Cake Club. I wanted to keep it really simple and was thinking about making a Dutch apple pie, but it started to itch so I popped in to the kitchen to experiment with new recipes.
Dutch butter cake
– Click here for this recipe in Dutch -> Boterkoek –
It’s my party and I can eat what I want to…
No wait a minute… TWO parties today because it’s my birthday ánd exactly two years ago today I married the most amazing man on earth.
But yet today is just an ordinary Wednesday. The older I get, the less I value my birthday. This year is also the first time that I’m not going to celebrate it.
Pistachio cake with chocolate cream
– Click here for this recipe in Dutch -> Pistache cake met chocolade crème –
“The cake I made for the LA Cake Club and the cake I was supposed to make for the LA Cake Club”
Starting next Monday I’m avoiding sugar and refined carbohydrates for a month, quite exciting! But that doesn’t mean I can’t have sugar and carbs right now, right? 😉
So when last Sunday the LA Cake Club took place again, I just had to join. The LA Cake Club is a
Rose sponge cake with strawberries and pistachios
I love social media. Okay I’ll admit it: I’m a social media junkie. The moment I wake up you’ll find me checking Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (in no particular order) with still one eye closed.
I wanna know what happened while I was sleeping and I want to know what’s going on in the world. It’s my coffee – the only way to start the day properly.
And the best part about social media? Meeting new people! And that’s a very welcome thing if you just moved to LA. Well ‘just’…
Dutch apple pie for my Birthday!
– Click here for this recipe in Dutch -> Appeltaart –
Yes! It’s my birthday today! I’m getting old you guys, 32 already! I used to get really excited, weeks before my birthday. But this year everything feels different, I really have to remind myself it’s my birthday and I don’t really care about it. Of course, it’s a good opportuniy to eat cake for breakfast,
White chocolate limoncello truffle cake
– Click here for this recipe in Dutch -> Witte chocolade truffel cake met limoncello –
Oh. My. God. I think I’ve never been more pleased with a dessert than this one. Maybe it’s because I don’t do a lot of desserts. Maybe it’s because there’s alcohol involved. Maybe it’s because there are strawberries involved. But… maybe it’s because this one took a lot of test rounds before it was blog worthy.
The most important thing I found out:
Persimmon oatmeal bread
Every weekday morning our alarm goes off at 8am. Some times I’m already awake but most times I’m still in a deep sleep. Between 8 and 8.30am I’m trying to wake up by reading the news, checking my Facebook time line, liking a lot of photos at my Instragram feed and reading my email, all on my iPhone.
At 8.30am I kick P out of bed; he will take a shower and I will also get out of bed and put on my bathrobe and slippers. I walk to the kitchen to make coffee and breakfast for P. Breakfast is a bowl of yogurt with fruit (at this moment pomegranate, oranges and grapefruit) and home made granola. I make it easy for myself because
Divine Chocolate Cake
Do you believe me if I tell you this was the first chocolate cake I’ve ever made in my 31 year old life?
Well, it is… Don’t get me wrong, I really like chocolate especially when it’s good quality and when there is some filling or salt involved 😉
And I also like baking cakes but tell me: who is gonna eat all that delicious goodness?
Dutch egg cakes
– Click here for this recipe in Dutch -> Heerlijke luchtiger eierkoeken –
Those egg cakes (“eierkoeken“) are very popular in the Netherlands. Especially since a famous weight loss guru prescribed them in her menu’s. This woman is also known as Sonja Bakker, she is blond and always smiling (of course, she has to sell her diet!) and she is from West-Friesland, an area North of Amsterdam known for its huge greenhouses. So she also has an accent which I find very annoying.
I’ve never followed her diet, I mean… it is a crash diet! I don’t believe in that! Sonja wrote books with weekly menus and she sold a lot of those books. For some reason these Dutch egg cakes where part of the diet.