Claudia&Julia's blog

If you were wondering how to make homemade bars you'll love reading this post (and the mold Mastrad has released!). Cereal bars are tasty, healthy, provide energy and are a perfect food to take everywhere (to work, to school, for when you're exercising or simply to carry in your bag to snack mid-morning). Also, if you make the bars at home, you can control the amount of sugars and the quality of the ingredients, and they have that extra "I made them myself" factor, which is always an added pleasure—you can't deny it.

The cheesecake we bring today is super creamy — consider yourself warned. Also, the creamy ricotta combined with sweet berries and white chocolate is a perfect combination you're sure to love.

This is a delicious dessert, also ideal to accompany afternoon tea or a good coffee.

I have always enjoyed making desserts, desserts with history like these traditional frisuelos that are made in Asturias and whose recipe has been passed down from parents to children time and time again.

When Claudia suggested I prepare a recipe with the Ilsa flan molds, I immediately replied that I wanted to make my tocinillos de cielo. They are such an exquisite and delicate bite that I wanted to show you how to make them at home. And the thing is, whenever I serve them at a gathering, they’re a hit.

If in my last recipe we traveled to the United Kingdom, today we continue there. I couldn't resist presenting the recipe for Scones. Yes, I'm sure you know them — those round rolls originating from Scotland, the little breads usually served alongside the famous tea time.

You're probably wondering first: Where's the fruit? I asked myself the same the first time I saw this dessert. A cobbler is a dessert with a base of caramelized fruit covered by a layer of cookie dough or shortcrust pastry and baked. This dessert has nothing to do with the classic cobbler, but that's what they call it.

Do you want to surprise your children (or friends or yourself) with a special snack? Something sweet, but not too cloying? Something that’s super easy and quick to make even on a weekday? Well, I think I have the solution for you.

Back in the Second World War, two Canadian officers were staying at a hotel in the northeast of England, where they handed the recipe for a pudding to the hotel's owner; and it makes sense what they tell us about its origin being Canadian rather than English, since the batter is more like that of an American muffin than that of a delicate, spongy English cake. I'm talking about the delicious sticky toffee pudding.

You know I love sharing recipes from different parts of the world with you, it’s something that drives me crazy. I believe there’s nothing better than getting to know a place through its food and traditions. When we travel, I would dare say I almost prefer going to markets, restaurants, shops, bakeries... more than visiting the place itself! haha. It’s something I really enjoy. Today we’re not going very far, I want to share with you how to make and enjoy an incredible Mallorcan potato coca.

The coca de forner or baker's coca is a flat, elongated bread very typical in Catalonia that was originally made with plain bread dough, brushed with olive oil, topped with pine nuts and sugar, and sprinkled with anise as it came out of the oven. Simple and very effective.

I make these butter cookies filled with chocolate at home every week. I stopped buying the supermarket ones when I learned that industrial cookies weren't entirely healthy, especially those filled with cocoa creams.

A few months ago Nordic Ware told us that they would stop making the beautiful Beehive pan. I couldn't believe it — it's so beautiful! With it you get lovely mini cakes, perfect little treats for breakfast, to go with coffee or for the kids' afternoon snack.