Tag: dessert
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Coconut Lime Cookies {grain-free}
After supper, we don’t usually have dessert, but we do like to have a little treat with a cup of peppermint tea. However, it’s difficult to find something that isn’t filled with sugar and other carbohydrates, and therefore likely to keep us counting sheep all night. As I was trying to come up with an
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Double Chocolate Muffins {vegan, gluten-free}
These muffins taste very decadently of rich, dark chocolate, yet they are surprisingly healthy. I first came across the original recipe, created by Thomas, on his interesting food blog called “Full of Plants”. His recipe is actually quite healthy as it is, but I wanted to try to eliminate any added sugars, preferring that any
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Dairy-Free Chocolate Chip Muffins
What seems like a very long time ago now, I used to buy a breakfast sandwich and chocolate chip muffin to go with my latte, on my way to my job as a stock broker’s assistant. Since I had to start work at 6:30am some days, I didn’t want to take any extra time away
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Fresh Strawberry Tarts with Pastry Cream
Today after lunch, we were craving a sweet snack to go with our tea, so I thought I’d try using a simple pastry cream with the French pastry tart shells, topped with the last of the summer strawberries. The result was a light, delicious treat; it’s hard to beat the combination of pastry cream and
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Rustic Peach Tart
The last batch of peaches I bought were just perfect in their peachiness; juicy and ripe, and sweet with just a bit of tang. I was planning on making a peach panna cotta with them, but I couldn’t find agar powder in time to use the peaches, so I decided to make a rustic peach
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Lime Tarts
A couple of weeks ago, I fortuitously discovered the ambrosia that is the Passionfruit Tart from Ken’s Patisserie, here in Portland. Emmy and I were out for a walk, and I thought I would just stop in for a small treat. At the first bite, I said to myself “this is one of the best
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Apricot Tart {gluten-free}
Sometimes I really crave the tangy-sweet deliciousness of apricots, and lately they’ve been popping up in our local supermarket, looking so beautiful and rosy, so I decided to use them to make a tart with a custard filling.