A crêpe is a type of very thin pancake, usually made from wheat flour. While crêpes originate from Brittany, a region in the northwest of France, their consumption is nowadays widespread in France and they are considered a national dish, and they are also increasingly popular in North America and South America. Preparation time : [...]
Preparation time : 20 mn Cooking time : 20 mn Cost : cheap Ingredients : 6 servings 100 gr dark chocolate (70% cocoa) + 12 chocolate squares 100 gr walnuts 200 gr flour 125 gr brown sugar 2 eggs 75 gr butter + 30 gr for the molds 15 cl crème fraîche 3 tablespoons cocoa [...]
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French cheesecake is called “Tourteau fromager“. It is a regional pastry from the Center of France (Poitou-Charentes), with goat or cow soft white cheese “fromage blanc”. It has a light texture. Although it is black on the top of the cake, the inside is white. Tourteau fromager used to be cooked for weddings or important [...]
Apple pies are delicious dessert and easy to do. Here is a recipe with soft apples and crunchy almonds ! Preparation time : 20 mn Cooking : 40 mn Pause : 5 mn Cost : cheap Ingredients : 6 servings 250 gr puff pastry 6 apples 125 gr split almonds 100 gr white sugar 70 [...]
Far Breton is a traditional cake or dessert from the Brittany region in France. Its base is similar in composition to a clafoutis batter : a flan-style eggs-and-milk custard with flour added. Prunes or raisins are common additions. This is an easy recipe to do with your children ! Preparation time : 15 mn Cooking [...]
A soufflé is a light, fluffy, baked cake made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as a savoury main dish or sweetened as a dessert. The word soufflé is the past participle of the French verb souffler which means “to blow up” or more loosely “puff up” [...]
The Madeleine is a traditional small cake from Commercy and Liverdun, two communes of the Lorraine region in northeastern France. Madeleines are very small sponge cakes with a distinctive shell-like shape acquired from being baked in pans with shell-shaped depressions. Aside from the traditional moulded pan, commonly found in stores specialising in kitchen equipment and [...]
The chocolate truffle was first created by M. Dufour in Chambéry, France in December 1895. They reached a wider public with the establishment of the Prestat chocolate shop in London by Antoine Dufour in 1902, which still sells ‘Napoleon III’ truffles to the original recipe. A chocolate truffle is a type of chocolate confectionery, traditionally [...]
Custard tarts consist of an outer pastry crust, filled with egg custard and baked. Similar products also exist in other Western European cuisines, and around the world. The development of custard is so intimately connected with the custard tart or pie that the word itself comes from the old French croustade, meaning a kind of [...]
The name of this cake comes from the fact that all ingredients are weighted and used in equal proportions (traditionally, one pound each of flour, butter, eggs and sugar). In French we call it “Quatre quarts” (litterally “4 fourths“), also reflecting the fact that all 4 ingredients are used in equal amounts. It is a [...]
