Claudia&Julia's Blog
Apple layer cake
Extremely moist and visually appealing, this apple layer cake (apple mille-feuille or layered apple cake) leaves no one indifferent. From the outside it looks like a sponge cake, but inside are layers and layers of sweet roasted apple and, in fact, very little batter.
Lemon bars: Lemon bars
You're probably familiar with lemon bars, little lemon squares, or the popular Lemon Bars. They're a delicious bite for dessert, or a treat for a special moment.
Decorated Chocolate Sticks
Decorated chocolate sticks are a snack that's very easy to make and one of the most fun and decorative treats for your little ones' celebrations (and for adults, let's not kid ourselves).
Almond Speculoos Cookies
More and more people are hearing about Spéculoos cookies, typical and very traditional at Christmastime in Belgium (where they call them speculaas), and also very popular in Germany (Spekulatius). I'll tell you a few things about them and bring a recipe for almond Spéculoos cookies that are richly spiced and festive.
Traditional saffron buns or St. Lucia buns
These saffron buns shaped like the number 8 are traditional Swedish buns. You may know them as St. Lucia buns, or you may have heard the word Lusskatter. What is certain is that they are very aromatic buns, and I'll be delighted if you decide to make them.
Meringue Mille-Feuille
Today, in old-fashioned desserts: Meringue mille-feuille! Yes, it may be one of the oldest sweets in history, but for that very reason you're sure to have more than one anecdote to tell when it comes to these delicious puff pastries.
Caramelized pineapple with spices
Cooking in stainless steel is possible and today we demonstrate it with this recipe as delicate as it is delicious: caramelized, fragrant pineapple, a classic and typical dessert, ideal to bring to the table any Sunday or after a heavy meal. It's refreshing and a dessert that goes down very well!
How to Make Brown Butter and How to Use It
If you haven't heard of brown butter, a whole new world will open up to you today. The brown butter, also called noisette butter, hazelnut butter or browned butter, is the ingredient that works wonders in any recipe, whether in baking or in savory dishes, and it is incredibly easy to make. Brown butter takes any recipe you make with it to the next level (there's a reason some people call it "liquid gold"!).
Apple Roses
Beautiful and easy to make, apple roses are without a doubt one of those recipes that become a classic wherever they go: with the step-by-step instructions we provide, you'll find yourself turning to them for any occasion, from the day you feel like firing up the oven to the times you want to really impress your guests.
Egg custard - my family's traditional recipe
Here's my family's traditional egg flan recipe. The ratio of yolks to whites in a flan is important to achieve the right flavor and texture, and to me this recipe is perfect.
Pasca cu Branza - Easter cake filled with cheese
When Holy Week arrives we enter a season in which we're surrounded by a host of wonderful and extraordinary sweet recipes, like torrijas. But there is a wide variety of sweets from around the world that are also eaten at this time of year and that we shouldn't miss. Like this Pasca cu Branza - Easter cake filled with cheese.
Coca with Trempó
Today we land in Mallorca to enjoy one of its traditional dishes, the well-known Coca de Trempó, a simple recipe that's always a hit. Perfect for informal dinners as well as those not so informal, serving it individually and with an extra ingredient I'll tell you about at the end of the recipe. It consists of a bread dough base topped with trempó, which is a salad of peppers, onion, and tomato.
