This candied orange peel is wonderful in the Christmas muffins I posted yesterday. But also great in other cakes and cookies. Or dip them in chocolate or just eat them. So do not throw away your peel and start making this simple recipe! This is how you make the candied orange peel Cut the peel [...]

Bake this fruity, spicy cardamom Cake! You won’t be sorry! Especially when it’s cold outside, or stormy, like right at this moment. In Holland we have this stormy weather often in late fall. It conjures images of people on bikes, leaning forward, trying to peddle against the wind, dry leafs swirling, trees bowing, darkness when [...]

A perfect marriage between blushing apples from the north and sun drenched figs from the south. When cultures meet you often get beautiful combinations. Muffins to remember the summer and take in the goodness of winter. The smell is great, the taste even better. This is what you need makes 12 300 grams of self [...]

Saturday is often baking day at the Dorré household. First a bit of BBC Saturday Kitchen with cappuccino and cookies. Then some shopping and baking: the fun part. This Saturday I particularly wanted to try some of the Tessa Kiros recipes from her book ‘Apples for Jam’ which I got for my birthday. The book, [...]

The apple ‘harvest’ from our trees is a bit poor this year. I don’t know why exactly, maybe the weather, maybe our lack of understanding the needs of an apple tree. But there are still some good ones that inspire enough to do something special with them. This simple but delicious apple cake for example. [...]