Category: desserts
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Weight Watchers mini cherry cheesecakes
This might come as a shock to some of you considering my love for all things sweet but I’m on Weight Watchers. The first time I joined Weight Watchers, it helped me lose the weight from baby number 1. In fact, after giving birth in 2009, I lost a total of nearly 70 pounds thanks…
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Marie-Helene’s apple cake
It’s been nearly a year since I made this cake for my father’s birthday and I’ll admit part of the reason why I haven’t written about it until now is because I’m disappointed in the photo. But this cake was so simply delicious I’d be remiss in my duty to my blog readers if…
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Midnight madness meringue cake
There’s nothing I like more than alliteration and this is why I made this cake. OK, I’m lying but I must admit I like the name of this cake. Now that I have my Grammar Geek confession out of the way …. To be honest, I don’t really see it as a cake. It’s…
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Dark chocolate and hazelnut mousse
On my ever-growing list of items I need to get to on my white board in my office: Cleaning and organizing my drawers. I’ve been staring at those words for months. My bathroom drawers. My kitchen drawers. My en suite bathroom drawers. Don’t even get me started. No, I’m not going to tell you I…
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Dorie Greenspan’s coffee eclairs
I never really liked eclairs until recently, when I discovered coffee eclairs (aka eclairs au cafe) at my local tea shop. They were a revelation. Until then, I always equated eclairs with those whipped cream-filled spongy concoctions you can find slowly drying out behind your nearest donut shop counter. You know the type. You…
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Espresso chip meringues
My past attempts at making meringues have fallen flat. So I was amazed, and thrilled when I came home from work one Friday and whipped up a batch of these meringues in no time at all. Maybe it’s because this time I properly let the egg whites reach room temperature. Maybe the air was…
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Chocolate & Zucchini’s Canelés
It was love at first bite. Sorry I can’t resist a cheesy play on words. Back to the batter at hand (tee hee). I first made canelés, if you might remember, at Bonnie Gordon’s School of Confectionary Arts. I signed up for the two-day course mainly to learn how to make macarons. And I…
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Hazelnut-almond financiers redux
I am a micromanager at the best of times and one of the ways that manifests itself is my obsessive checking of my blog stats. I can’t help but wonder – who keeps misspelling my surname as Nercessian to come to this blog? And who are the readers in Afghanistan? Also, are financiers molds…
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Dorie Greenspan’s Nutella Tartine
Where a North American after-school snack might be a glass of milk and cookies, the French goûter is often a pain au chocolat. Sometimes, Dorie Greenspan says in her new cookbook “Around My French Table” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) it might even be an open-faced chocolate sandwich. This may seem ridiculous to Canadians, and Americans, but…
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Mini chocolate-dipped bananas
We go through a lot of bananas in our house. Not only does my husband eat one every morning, but it’s the only food my sometimes-picky baby boy can’t resist, and the only one that has him smacking his lips. And so this next recipe was an obvious choice for me – mini chocolate-dipped…