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When Beatriz, author of To Be Gourmet, told me that she wanted to make the Basque Cake recipe for our blog, I didn't hesitate to say "Go ahead!", because it is one of my favorite cakes. I have always loved that delicious cream filled pastry! She presents it to us with a double filling: figs and pastry cream, a luxurious combination in a cake that you will surely love to prepare at home, you will see!

Pavlova is a meringue-based cake, crunchy on the outside and creamy on the inside. Luisa, author of Cooking with my Carmela, suggests making it with a chocolate meringue base, filled with mascarpone and chocolate cream. To all this he also adds a touch of coffee and hazelnuts... Can you imagine a better combination?

Strawberries are one of the fruits that give the most play in the kitchen. Sweet and juicy, without a doubt a wonderful companion to cakes. That's why before the end of the season, Carmen (Yerbabuena in the Kitchen) brings us an easy and delicious strawberry cake: a strawberry pie, with its shortcrust pastry and the strawberry filling that go so well together. Enjoy it!

There are many recipes to make a sponge cake in Bundt-type molds, but since many times you ask us for classic recipes to make in these beautiful molds, we have made a compilation of 7 that I think you will love. They are recipes with the most traditional flavors, which you can make in your Nordic Ware mold with all the guarantees of success among your guests.

Luisa, from the blog Cocinando con mi Carmela, brings you today a classic recipe: a delicious French meringue that Luisa presents today in the form of little sighs. It is one of those recipes with which a KitchenAid is used for the first time, I assure you that it is perfect!

Lemon curd is a typical English cream made from lemon juice and eggs. It has a fantastic acidic touch that makes it ideal for filling sponge cakes, tartlets or accompanying simple toast. It also combines very well with natural yogurt, cream, ice cream... The combinations are endless!

Preparing cookies at home is a great pleasure, apart from being really easy! The recipe that Virginia (from Sweet&Sour) proposes us today, chocolate and hazelnut cookies with a touch of orange, is a guaranteed winner. Go ahead with them!

If there is an ideal day to prepare a sweet recipe, it is Valentine's Day: Sharing a delicious dessert is the most romantic! As it is a day to enjoy, and not to spend it locked up in the kitchen, the proposal that Lola (from the Loleta blog) brings us is as easy and quick to prepare as it is attractive: strawberry clafoutis recipe, you will love it!

What a delicious bundt cake Leti brings us today, from Revealing Flavors! It is a traditional recipe for orange cake, which is prepared in the beautiful Kugelhopf mold from Nordic Ware. It will surely be a success at home, because there is a reason why the classics never die!

French tradition says that crêpes should be prepared on February 2nd. They can be sweet or savory, but when making them you must turn the crêpes with one hand, while holding 2 coins with the other. Those two coins will be wrapped in the crêpe and kept like that for a whole year, and the following year those coins will be given to the poor.

Eva, author ofBake-Street , brings us a cake that you can prepare both as a first course and as a dessert. It is a salty cucumber and coriander cake, with a cocoa base that goes to the finger! It tells you in detail how to make it. You will be surprised!

Carmen, author of Yerbabuena en la cocina, brings us one of the most popular French recipes, the tarte tatin, this time with pear. I invite you to try it, you will see how easy it is to prepare and how delicious it is!