Here’s a time for a confession: I don’t like banana bread. I know, it’s horrible! I can’t help it. The taste of overripe bananas is just unbearable for me. Saying that, it does sometimes happen that I leave my bananas for a bit too long and they reach the stage just before turning…
Category: Sweet tooth
desserts and sweets
Low effort *freezable* chocolate cookies
Freezable cookies to prep ahead of a lazy day when you really need that last minute dessert.
Bougie rhubarb crêpes to impress
This is a real crowd pleaser. Those rhubarb crêpes are deliciously sweet, a little tangy, just the right amount of spicy. The addition of ginger makes it warming and fiery giving the recipe a little unexpected kick. Rhubarb and rose petals take it from good and modest to ‘oh yes, give me more’….
*Dutch baby* huge pancake
This is a very lavish, weekend breakfast. Sure, it takes more time than simply having a granola but it is also surprisingly low-key: all you do is make the batter and then bake it all in one batch so it saves you the time it takes to fry individual pancakes. No resting time either, so as soon as the oven is hot, you are good to go! Literally! Throw it in and come back 20 minutes later to enjoy the most spectacular breakfast you had this week.
Ginger nuts *Dutch* biscuits
I came across ginger nuts or kruidnoten biscuits when reading a fabulous book called ‘On the Bright Side. The New Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen’. And I just couldn’t resist making them! This is perhaps the first time when I became the victim of compulsive baking. Quite a new thing to me but yet, I only turned 30 few months ago so I am sure I will get used to it.
