Coffee Cheesecake

Today we’re presenting a delicious variant of this traditional American cake: cheesecake flavored with coffee and a few grains of all spice to give a spiced note to the dessert 🙂 . This coffee cheesecake is so perfect for breakfast, certainly will make you smile all day long 😀 .  

Banana and avocado Muffins (no butter)

Have you ever been in the terrible situation of having to prepare muffins and having no butter at all? 🙁 That has happended to us and of course that was a tragedy, but having at home very ripe bananas and avocados, we started to experiment and made get these soft and tasty banana and avocado muffins scented  with vanilla 😀 . To … Read More

Învârtită cu nucă: Romanian walnut cake

Today we’re going to present a dessert of Romanian origin: Învârtită cu nucă, a walnut cake rolled up on itself. The Învârtită is certainly a very scenic and tasty dessert, yet simple to prepare. The first time we’ve tried it, we marveled: it is a slightly sweeten bread dough, which encloses chopped walnuts and brown sugar, no spices at all; but the … Read More

Spiced twisted cookies with orange and cocoa

The spiced twisted cookies have a double flavor, half of the dough is scented with cocoa and orange peel (it’s always a winning combination 😉 ), the other half is flavored with vanilla and cardamom 🙂 . The two parts of the dough not only have two different flavors, but also two colors, a great way to create a cute tangled effect that will make … Read More

Caramelized pineapple mousse with vanilla

Even if it snows and we are (still) in winter, we’ll present you a dessert with fruity taste and spring mood: a caramelized pineapple mousse made with ricotta cheese and perfumed vanilla seeds. This pineapple mousse, light and quick to prepare, is excellent served on its own, or also accompanied with a slice of freshly baked cake 😉 . Preparing the … Read More

Green tomato jam

At the end of summer we often find ourselves with green tomatoes that do not want to mature… Here’s an unusual idea to use them: the green tomato jam 🙂 . This is an old recipe, handed down from our mom, and it is a great jam to be spread on bread, but it also perfect to fill pies or to accompany … Read More

Chocolate chips muffins with orange zeste

You have invited your friends for a tea and do not know what to prepare? Here’s a quick recipe perfect for any casual occasions: chocolate chips muffins flavored with orange zest 😀 . Muffins are a little cakes from the Unites States, widespread primarily in the nineteenth century. The most classic version, with blueberries, is so popular that it has … Read More

Coffee and caramel dessert

Only one week is left until Easter, therefore, it is the perfect time to reveal our dessert for the Easter lunch. Hoping for spring weather to organize a barbecue 😉 , we have chosen an elegant fresh dessert with coffee and caramel 😀 : layers of mascarpone cream cheese and lightly spiced coffee, separated by thin caramel discs. The coffee dessert, though it may … Read More

Yogurt tart

Have you ever had to prepare a dessert for a dinner, but the summer afternoon was so hot that you did not want to turn the oven on? Well, surely… This yogurt tart will solve your problem 🙂 The yogurt tart is a quick and easy to prepare and usually appreciated by anyone! You can serve it in its most … Read More

Mimosa cupcakes

Today we have a nice idea to surprise a friend, girlfriend or mom for Women’s Day! 😀 Why should you buy flowers, when you can prepare yourself a dessert that remembers mimosas? So here’ve got the mimosa cupcakes, flavored with vanilla and orange blossom 😀 . The Mimosa cake traditionally requires a custard filling… But to make it easier, we decided to omit the custard and replace … Read More