Easy and quick lemon Greek yogurt cake / bread recipe with a citrusy bite from fresh lemon zest balanced by the sweet aromas of vanilla and powdered sugar finish. Lovely sprinkled with some healthy chopped pistachios, a few berries or some of these balsamic roasted figs. Whatever tickles your taste buds. There’s no butter in my recipe, as always I go to my healthy fat of choice: the extra virgin olive oil, forever and ever! You can bake this in a simple loaf pan for nice coffee shop ...
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Easy Coconut Macaroons Recipe
Easy coconut macaroons that are chewy, flourless, dairy and gluten free, made without any condensed milk. Just coconut, egg whites, sugar and vanilla! Legend has it that the macaroons originated sometime in the 8th or 9th century in Venice, Italy. From there they made their way to France in 1533 with Catherine de Medici’s pastry chef. Melt your favorite chocolate bar in a double boiler, whisk in a little butter and turn these into some chocolate dipped coconut macaroons in no time. Or ...
Ciabatta Bread Recipe
An authentic Italian recipe for ciabatta bread or slipper bread, originally from the Veneto, made with an overnight starter and cooked just like pizza on a preheated pizza stone.Invented by Francesco Favaron in 1982, it is perfect for sandwiches, bruschetta, panzanella, or just to dip in your favorite olive oil. Very easy to execute at home, but you will need to plan in advance for the starter or Biga.Don’t be intimated, this is a sticky wet dough, hence those nice holes that make ...
Best Lemon Bars Recipe
Easy breezy, the best lemon bars recipe, made with a shortbread base crust and a thick layer of perfectly creamy lemon curd.No fuss, so easy a kid could make them, the best ever you guys! All you need to do is whip up a creamy fail proof lemon curd in a double boiler, just like we did for this lemon olive oil cake. Just like coconut macaroons, there is no cornstarch, no baking powder needed at all! Then buzz up some short bread in a mini food processor, bake it, top it with the curd and ...
Nut Roll Recipe
An Eastern European Christmas and Easter tradition, this nut roll recipe can be made with ground walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, raisins and even a poppy seed filling.Risen with instant yeast and made exquisite by the addition of sour cream to the nut roll dough, this recipe is super easy and a holiday favorite. Loaded with ground or roughly chopped walnuts, vanilla extract and a burst of freshness from orange zest, your house will be filled with a divine comforting smell that brings all the ...
Best Pumpkin Bread Recipe
The best pumpkin bread recipe from scratch loaded with dark chocolate chips, organic canned pumpkin puree, smooth extra virgin olive oil ( no butter ), then covered in sea salt caramel and toasted coconut. Like a Samoa style decadent cake my friends! Easy like Sunday morning!You can of course keep it simple and use store bought caramel or make your own, I’ll include instructions below for the homemade version. I used a mix of coconut and granulated cane sugars, simply because I love ...
Easy Pumpkin Muffins Recipe with Orange Glaze & Mascarpone
The best easy pumpkin muffins you will ever make, extra fluffy with a little pocket of mascarpone cheese inside and draped in a decadent orange glaze. Are you ready for pumpkin everything kids ? Yeah, me either, but I made these easy pumpkin muffins like a month or so ago, and been waiting for a sweater kind of day to share them. And today is that kind of day, so forget whatever I said I was gonna post next. Today you are getting easy pumpkin muffins stuffed with mascarpone cheese and covered ...
Fresh Peach Dessert Recipe with Mascarpone and Puff Pastry
An easy fresh peach dessert, baked in puff pastry sheets with creamy mascarpone cheese and vanilla bean. I made us the best fresh peach dessert you guys! Because i am a peach monster this time of the year, and if it was up to me I would eat them for every single meal. How about dessert for breakfast ?Because this fresh peach dessert is baked inside puff pastry, and isn’t puff pastry technically breakfast ? Not sure, but does anyone really care ? Not me kids! I actually made them ...
Blueberry Glaze Avocado Cake Recipe
Fluffy like a pillow and draped in a luscious blueberry glaze, this avocado cake recipe is made with creamy ricotta cheese, decadent dark chocolate chunks and smooth olive oil. Can you resist? I have a confession to make: fragrant Olive Oil + Ricotta Cheese make my world go around, for reals!Because one more olive oil cake recipe, drizzled with blueberry glaze, makes the world a better place you know..? Well, at least for the time we spend eating it anyways! A riff on my old Ricotta ...
Italian Wedding Cookies Recipe
Easy and quick, this is the best Italian wedding cookies recipe ever. Loaded with walnuts and hazelnuts and coated in fluffy powder sugar like a snowball, these Italian cookies are sure to steal everybody’s heart! I know this is random you guys, and tough I have made and photographed more than 5 seasonal recipes this week, today I bring you the best Cookies. Last night I started craving cookies, so weird, so random, but couldn’t help it. And then I remembered I stocked up on organic butter ...