Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Pistachio Rocky Meringue


Le chocolatier rocky road bite


Sweet Passion
Very lovely recipe, sweet & colorful, a bit crunchy and really delicious. A perfect Pistachio Meringue Rocky Road bars more rich and nutty. Can't stop helping myself to it and fingers licking good too! Truly for chocolate lover.

Black-Yellow-Purple Roulade


Sweet pumpkin potato swiss roll


Sweet Passion
This gorgeous mini roulade consists of  sugar-colouring-free yellow pumpkin and purple sweet potato. It's a clever combination of ingredients & colour and go well with the charcoal sponge! Amazing beautiful and yummy.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Belgian Chocolatier Tart


Luxurious chocolatier dessert

Creative Passion
This wonderful chocolate tart is rich, dense and a perfect for semi sweet chocolate lover like me. The english digestive biscuit for it crust with french butter melted in the right temperature. The 55% sweet chocolate melted with smooth consistency and silky. This recipe is fantastic and amazingly tasty. Will try more fantastic dark chocolate with the finest flavour and ingredients for unique taste as well.


Ingredients: 6-8 persons
24 cm tart pan

For the crust:
200 g English digestive biscuit
90   g French butter

For the filling:
300 g 55% semi-sweet dark Belgian chocolate
250 g Cream
8     g Sea salt
100 g Dried cranberries
50   g German cocoa powder for dusting

Method for crust:
1) Mix crushed biscuit & melted butter together.
2) Press the crumb mixture into the bottom and up side of the pan to form an even and strong crust using your fingertips.
3) Transfer to bake for 10 minutes until the crust is set and ligthly golden in colour and set aside to cool down.

Method for filling:
1) Bring cream to a boil until bubble and rise stages in a sauce pan.
2) Double boil method to melt the chocolate over gently medium-low heat simmering water. Stirring constantly to make sure the chocolate is smooth and consistency silky.
3) Combined the chocolate and boil cream, stirring until well combined and smooth.
4) Stir in dried cranberries & sea salt.
5) Pour the filling into the prepared crust and set aside to cool down. Refridgerate the tart at least 4 to 6 hours.
6) Remove from tart pan and dust with cocoa powder and serve with the fruit sliced or ice cream.


Easy / moderate / Difficult
Time: 15 minutes preparation / 12 minutes cooking

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Black black Charcoal Cheese

 
Are you afraid of black


Sweet Passion
This spectacular, sweet and delicious black cheese cake become a highlight of my cake menu. All my neighbours love it. It's look very heavy on appearance due to it colour but taste extremely light and delicious. Marvelous cheese cake.

Mini Green Rocket Pizz


Mini pizza


Sweet Passion
Creating a mini pizza just nice for myself. For the veggies lover this delicious pizza includes mozzarella cheese, green rocket, tomatoes, bell peppers, fresh mushroom, onions, olive and parmesan cheese. Yummyliciuos!

Monday, November 15, 2010

Maple Syrup Cheesecake


Wholesome nutty-fruity cheese cake


Sweet Passion
A cheesecake with maple syrup, and pecan nuts  and fresh sweet blueberries. So nutty, fruity yet so rich in flavour. All my family members love it and had second servings too:) It's a good and rich recipe for cheese cake.
 

Marzipan Fruit Platter


Marzipan fruit candy


Sweet Passion
Edible fruit candy, real and interesting. Get the ideas from some old bakery shops when I was in Milan and Venice. They still produce and sell it like hot cake:)

Roses Sugar Chocolate Box


Edible sugar box

Sweet Passion
Tiny sugar art box to house all the truffle chocolate. Ideal for gift item! 
First timer to use the icing sugar dough to create beautiful art piece:)

Bruschetta-Ciabatta Cherry Tomatoes

Yummy bruschetta

Sweet Passion
The crunchy bases of these Italian favourites best go with the cherry tomatoes, fresh basil sauce and mozzarella. Nutrition facts and healthy alternatives!

Maple Baked Grapefruit

 
Simple baked grapefruit

Sweet Passion
I was looking for something to do with grapefruit – baked grapefruit. It's a simple method: cut the grapefruit in half, a sprinkle of brown sugar, cinnamon or maple syrup, then bake until the sugar caramelizes. The simplicity astounded me and the taste was incredible. Baking the grapefruit helps minimize the bitterness and bringing up the sweet and fruity fragrance. I can’t see a reason to eat a raw grapefruit anymore.