Claudia&Julia's Blog

Although the origins of the cannelé are uncertain, history has it that the nuns of the Annonciades convent in Bordeaux made them for the poor. They used as ingredients the wheat they found on the docks, fallen from the holds of ships or from torn sacks, and the egg yolks that were discarded to clarify wine, since only the whites were used in the cellars. Thanks to the ships that arrived at the Port of the Moon, they obtained vanilla and rum to enrich their recipe.

If you like lemon flavor and enjoy baking, lemon curd will surely fit perfectly into your kitchen. Lemon curd, or lemon cream, is a typical English cream. Its color tends to be a more intense yellow than pastry cream, it has a creamy but light texture and a noticeable, tasty lemon flavor.

These brioche rolls scented with vanilla and orange blossom water are one of those basics for a happy snack. Filled with cocoa cream or split open and filled with a few squares of chocolate, they’re the kind of unforgettable bites. Or with your morning coffee — I can attest they’re perfect for starting the day with a big smile.

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!

Condensed milk flan is surely one of the most popular traditional flans. If you haven't made it at home yet, you should know that you've most likely tried it, because with its vanilla-like flavor and how easy it is to prepare, it is often the homemade flan recipe served in many restaurants.

If there are cupcakes that are easy to make and absolutely delicious, this Mascarpone cupcake recipe I bring you today is one of them.

The taste of Mascarpone and lemon shines in every bite, blended with the flavor of vanilla extract, which gives it a softer, more traditional aroma.

We couldn't bring such a wonderful pan as the Nordic Ware pancake pan without pairing it with a great recipe to break it in. Today you'll discover a super quick and delicious way to enjoy pancakes: we're bringing the recipe to make irresistibly fluffy pancakes!

The dehydrator is useful for much more than making dried fruit chips for a snack or dehydrating onion, garlic, mushrooms and aromatic herbs to always have them on hand for your stews. With this recipe for dehydrated banana and cocoa crepes I hope to shed light on the possibilities offered by the air dehydrator, and of course I hope you enjoy breakfasts that are healthy, energizing, and delicious.

With today's Chocolate Cheesecake recipe we're going to show you two things: first, that cheesecake is delicious, but it can be taken to another level when paired with such tasty flavors as chocolate and peanut. And second, but certainly no less important, that the pressure cooker lets you make not only vegetables, grains, and stews, but you can also use it to make fabulous desserts.

Fluffy and incredibly moist — that's the white chocolate brownie recipe I bring you today. We make it with condensed milk too, and I assure you it turns out very moist and fluffy. If you make it once, you'll make it a hundred times.

One onion, a handful of shallots, a log of goat cheese, a few sprigs of rosemary and a sheet of shortcrust pastry. That’s all we need to make this beauty and be a hit. Well, that and for the pastry to be homemade. The difference with store-bought is huge and, in case you didn’t know, it costs nothing (or almost nothing) to make it at home.

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"!).