Matcha is the new magic green. Matcha is a type of powdered green tea grown in the shade and traditionally used in the Japanese tea ceremony. Look around and you will encounter it everywhere. Not only as the tea that it actually is, though in grinded form, but also added to such items as cake [...]

Today I made delicious vanilla muffins. Thinking of red velvet cake, I added colour by using beetroot puree. The paints of nature can be more intense than any artificial colouring! This is what you need for the basic Beetroot Muffins 100 grams of just melted butter 275 ml of yoghurt or buttermilk 200 grams of [...]

It’s 5 days until Christmas and the world around me is white. It’s just a little veneer of white, but it looks beautiful all the same. It has been freezing these last days and together with the fog, it has created a thin white coating on everything, including the branches of all the trees. In [...]

These festive muffins are great to bake for a Christmas morning breakfast. I especially love the moistness and the surprise, because every bite gives you a different combination of tastes and textures. I ‘invented’ these muffins because I wanted to use my home made candied orange peel and sweet marzipan. Together with the red cranberries [...]

With this recipe I combine the best of two worlds: The buttery, sandy dough of the Dutch ‘appeltaart’ with the filling of a pie from ‘La Normandie’. So, no cinnamon this time, but you do get the long lingering scent and taste of Calvados (‘apple brandy’). And the baking of apples in sugar and butter [...]