Fresh chocolate cream with fresh cherries

Left over milk? Here is an easy and refreshing summer treat :)

By excluding the cacao you have the vanilla version !

Milk pie with a hint of lemon and loads of syrup

Since my favorite patisserie on Lesvos closed, all the flavours I grew up with were all of a sudden gone. Not to mention my wedding cake, which was also made by the same patisserie :( Since then, my aunt and I are on a quest to replicate our favorite desserts, cakes and cookies we have been missing the last couple of years.

One of my favorites was the galaktompoureko - milk pie in syrup with a lemon flavor. I am happy to announce that I came quite close with this recipe.

Heavenly fluffy brioche with machlepi

Easter and new year can't be celebrated without this brioche. It is originally called tsoureki. It is a gist bake-off, with eggs and butter, very similar to brioche, but with an exceptional flavor of the machlepi herb.

 

During Easter, we add an red colored egg with the cell and for new year a lucky coin :)
This recipe will take all your morning, as the dough will need to rise three times, so you need to book some extra time for this one. But trust me, the result will be amazing!

This is my grandma's recipe <3

Home made ice-cream with crunchy caramelized almonds

This is my grandmother's recipe and it is super easy and fast to make. 

This type of ice-cream is also known as praline :)

The best apple crumble pie ever!

This is pretty traditional Dutch. You can't have a birthday party without one. And this is the only one from the things I bake, that my husband can eat all by himself!

It is great to eat warm or cold, with whipped cream or ice. It is a bit of work, will take you about one hour to make and another to bake.

Ioula's sweet velvety pumpkin pie

This pumpkin pie is my grandmother's recipe. It has some unusual ingredients, which you might have a hard time finding if you are not Greek. Nevertheless I will give you some alternatives ;)

What is cool about this pie, is that you can taste the filling before you actually fill the pie and make it as sweet or neutral as you fancy. Pumpkin pies can be tricky as some pumpkins are sweeter than other, so following the recipe blindly won't cut it for this one :P