Lemon and lime cakes

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These little cakes get their double citrus flavour by combining the delicate bitterness of lemon and lime zest with the slight sharpness of the juice in a syrup, soaked into the cakes while still hot from the oven.
April 3^rd 201940 K 1 hour 45 min.

Mini apricot and pistachio brioches

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These mini brioches are made with dried apricots and have double pistachio flavour: in the dough itself, which is tinged green, and with dry-roasted pistachios added whole.
November 22^th 201554 K4.1 20 min.

Savoury mini-madeleines with 2 cheeses

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These moist-textured savoury madeleines have a delicious combination of 2 cheeses: Cheddar and Parmesan. They make an ideal aperitif snack.
May 8^th 201685 K4.4 40 min.

Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes

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This recipe allows you to enjoy a delicious brownie-style combination of melting fudgy texture and cake, with the distinct flavours of chocolate and chestnut purée.
January 31^th 201667 K5 55 min.

Langoustine sabayon tart

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For this recipe, the tart cases are made with sheets of filo pastry. These are filled with langoustines coated in a delicious lime-flavoured sabayon.
July 2^nd 201470 K3.8 1 hour 6 min.

Pink Reims biscuits

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These biscuits are a speciality of Reims. They have a light texture, rather like finger biscuits, and are traditionally rectangular and coloured pink.
February 12^th 2014111 K3.8 50 min.

Nonettes

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Nonettes are small, jam-filled cakes from a bygone age. They originated in Dijon, where they were made by nuns (hence the name, which means "little nun" in French). The traditional version is closer to the French "pain d'épices", but this recipe has a more of a citrus flavour, made with marmalade.
June 2^nd 201590 K4.4 1 hour 50 min.

Rum babas

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Rum baba is a classic French dessert, consisting of a small cake soaked in rum syrup and filled with a little Chantilly (whipped cream).
November 24^th 201396 K3.9 3 hours 35 min.

Cannelés

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Cannelés are a speciality from the French city of Bordeaux. These delicious little cakes have a crunchy exterior and a soft centre.
December 16^th 2012106 K5 1 day 1 hour 30 min.

Oat financiers for Louise

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These moist little petit-four cakes are called 'financiers' in French, as they are similar in shape to gold ingots! They go very well with tea or coffee. In this version, the usual ground almonds are replaced with rolled oats, blended to a powdery texture.
October 21^th 2012105 K 23.9 45 min.

Langoustine and leek tarts

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Small puff pastry cases filled with a layer of chopped leeks, fried langoustines (also known as scampi or Dublin Bay prawns), topped with hollandaise sauce.
May 13^th 2012107 K4.2 1 hour 30 min.

Praline rochers

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Here is how to prepare your own chocolate rochers with a chocolate praline filling covered in milk chocolate and chopped torrified almonds.
August 28^th 2011192 K5 3 hours 15 min.

Arizona cupcakes

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Cupcakes are small sponge cakes. In their original American version, they are usually decorated with brightly coloured icing. Here's a version inspired by the famous saguaro cactus, so common in Arizona.
October 13^th 2010190 K 14.6 1 hour 50 min.

Little vegetable omelettes

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As an appetiser or starter, little thick soft omelettes, with diced tomato, courgette and smoked ham.
June 11^th 2011298 K4 1 hour 10 min.

Chocolate muffins

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Variation on muffins recipe. In this version each one is filled with a dark chocolate ganache.
February 21^th 2011310 K4.3 1 hour 15 min.

Apricot blancmange

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Blancmange is a very old dessert recipe, going back to the middle-ages. Updated for our century, it's almond milk with whipped cream and a smooth apricot puree.
August 23^th 2011306 K4 3 hours 15 min.

Moist cereal bars

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Whether bars or rounds, this recipe produces delicous small cereal cakes.
February 21^th 2011292 K4.9 1 hour 5 min.

Fruit coulis (fruit purée)

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Contrary to what people usually think, coulis is not just a simple fruit purée with sugar. Of course, this is the general principle, but it's possible to make something much better and more refined. This recipe is for a strawberry coulis (see below for other fruits): how to make it, but also how...
October 20^th 2012770 K 44 25 min.

Poitevin twist

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This short baguette, from the Poitou region of western France is soft-textured, made with walnuts, walnut oil and goat's cheese. As the name suggests, the bread is twisted, rather than slashed, just before it goes into the oven.
December 19^th 201858 K 3 hours 20 min.

Chocolate madeleines

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Simple and delicious, goes very well with tea or coffee.
March 10^th 2019301 K3.8 1 hour 15 min.

Circles vs. moulds tins

If you like to bake or make quiches, pies etc. you must surely have one or more pie pans at home, in different diameters and perhaps materials. They are indispensable, without them there is no way to make beautiful pies, and they work very well, but you have another option, instead of moulds,...
October 2^nd 202012 K5

A memo of utensil weights

You will no doubt have come across this problem while cooking: after starting a recipe, when you already have some ingredients in a pan and have maybe cooked them, you need to know the weight of the pan's contents so that you can take half out, or add the same weight of sugar, for example.
May 9^th 201124 K4.6

The 3 secrets of successful mousses

When you make a traditional mousse, that is to say without using a siphon, whatever the recipe, it's always the same principle: on one side you have a dense mixture, very tasty, and on the other side egg whites beaten until stiff. All the difficulty of the success of a mousse, it will be to mix the...
April 3^rd 20216,2914.6

Egg whites management

Quite often, in cooking or pastry-making, we have recipes that use only egg yolks: gâteau breton (brittany butter cake), confectioner's custard, spaghetti carbonara, etc. And so, inevitably, we end up with unused egg whites that will have to be used elsewhere, in another recipe, and certainly...
June 12^th 20217,7194.9