Despina's Christmas Australian fruit cake

This one is actually a Christmas recipe but I like to make it in autumn, as it includes all the right ingredients, such as orange and cinnamon, dried fruit and nuts.

It becomes a bit dry and it is great for dipping into tea. This recipe was given to me a friend's mother, Despina, many years ago and I found it again while cleaning up one of my drawers in my mother's house. So happy to have made it again :)

Quick apple and cinnamon cake

This recipe is uniquely quick and unexpectedly tasty. We normally make this in a closed oven pan (ceramic on steel) which we usually cook when we want the meat and veggies to keep moist. Guess what, the same happens if you make a cake in it. It stays so very moist!

If you don't have a ceramic on steel pan, you can use your normal baking pan and cover it with backing paper an aluminium foil to have the same effect.

Super easy Tarte Tatin

I got to know this recipe at a cooking workshop I had with my colleagues. It is super easy and it can be served as a stand alone desert or with ice-cream. As you suspect from the name it is a French pie.

It was such a great fun making it with my colleagues, we enjoyed the process of baking more that the one of eating it :)

If you want a nice evening out with friends or colleagues try it out: Kookstudiohaarlem

Jonathan's booboos birthday cake

My sweet boy just turned 3 in June, and he was very specific about this cake. It had to be chocolate and it had to have some diggers on it. And loads of booboos on it.

*Booboo's; anything on wheels that makes noise and is impressive to Jonathan :)

Vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting and boboo's

Jonathan turned 3 last week and he had to bring treats at daycare. The crowd was between 2-4, so what better than cupcakes with chocolate booboo's*?

*Booboo's; anything on wheels that makes noise and is impressive to Jonathan :)

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 !