So with some of my dad’s family round today, I was given the weighty task of choosing a dessert to make for the five of us. Well it's a pretty serious job when you have an unhealthy obsession with cake, anyway.
Even with the near endless resource of Pinterest at my disposal I stuck with one of my good old fashioned recipe books and went for a recipe I'd used before for lunch: Millefeuille. Not only does it have a seriously pretty name (meaning 'a thousand leaves' in French), the 'cheat' version I used was really easy to make and left five pretty happy people afterwards.
I call it a cheat version because I bought the puff pastry I used since I've been warned of the perils of making your own, and I was banking on the cakes' foolproof nature (me being the fool). I got the recipe from one of my favourite recipe books, Cake Magic by Kate Shirazi.
It's got a massive range of recipes in it, most of which I haven't had time to take a swing at yet, but hopefully should be able to get around to making in the next couple of weeks. The Snuggle Loaf's been on the list for a while, as has the Earl Grey loaf, which I feel I should have a go at first since I just invested in a loaf tin and well, I haven't made a single post about Earl Grey since I changed the blog's name.
The millefeuille themselves are basically big stacks of puff pastry, a spot of jam, whipped cream (whisked, not the canned stuff, bleh!) strawberries, then the whole thing again topped with a nice sugar-dusted piece of pastry. They're light, fluffy,incredibly awkward to eat nicely and not healthy in the slightest. Well, apart from the strawberries, but that's about it!
They're all disposed of now (although I do have a diabolical plan for the rest of the pastry), so hopefully there'll be some banana cake in the works some time soon, which I'm ridiculously excited about making, so fingers crossed!
Peace! xx
It's got a massive range of recipes in it, most of which I haven't had time to take a swing at yet, but hopefully should be able to get around to making in the next couple of weeks. The Snuggle Loaf's been on the list for a while, as has the Earl Grey loaf, which I feel I should have a go at first since I just invested in a loaf tin and well, I haven't made a single post about Earl Grey since I changed the blog's name.
The millefeuille themselves are basically big stacks of puff pastry, a spot of jam, whipped cream (whisked, not the canned stuff, bleh!) strawberries, then the whole thing again topped with a nice sugar-dusted piece of pastry. They're light, fluffy,
They're all disposed of now (although I do have a diabolical plan for the rest of the pastry), so hopefully there'll be some banana cake in the works some time soon, which I'm ridiculously excited about making, so fingers crossed!
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