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Cookies and brownies, Featured
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How to make homemade Oreos

I have never understood the passion that food bloggers have for Oreos! I think they taste a lot of sugar and not 

Cakes, Featured
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Video: Carrot cake

I could not explain how, but my colleagues framed me and forced me to make a carrot cake for a 

Tarts
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Video: Pumpkin pie (tart, actually)

Last year I was invited to a real Thanksgiving dinner hosted by a real American with real American food. It 

Cakes
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A birthday rainbow cake

My friend Gillian is very easy to please: she just likes complicated cakes!!! Before I had this blog, she commissioned me a 

Cookies and brownies
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Recipe: The best chocolate chunk cookies. Ever.

I don’t know for how long I had been looking for a decent recipe of real American cookies. Not just 

Enriched yeast doughs
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Recipe: Burger buns

Milk bread is a recipe that is present in any pastry fundamentals book. And I ignored it on purpose with 

Cookies and brownies
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Recipe: Chocolate fudge brownies

Brownies are the perfect treat for chocolate lovers! These dense American pastries are very easy to make, and they are 

Quick breads
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[Daring Bakers] Cranberry muffins

This month, the Daring Bakers didn’t really have a proper challenge due a last minute accident. The solution was simple: 

Quick breads
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Pancakes on Mardi Gras

Did you know that Mardi Gras is also called Pancake Tuesday? I didn’t, because the tradition of eating pancakes on 

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Hi, my name is Rob, I work in IT but I love baking and I also got a pastry diploma. I created this blog to keep track of my journey from complete beginner to world pastry champion (I'm not there yet).

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Recipe: Pistachio macarons (with Italian meringue)

Some time ago I decided to make green macarons and so I bought a powdered green colouring (which for some

Recipe: Chocolate mirror glaze

This is one of the pastry “secrets” that differentiate a home-baker from a “pro”. I’m talking about this super-shiny chocolate

Recipe: Pistachio paste

Now that I don’t have to “study” for my pastry exam anymore and I don’t have to prepare the old-fashioned,

Recipe: Mille-feuille (Cream Napoleon)

You can’t go more classical than this! The mille-feuille is a traditional French pastry that can be found in any

Recipe: Chocolate Royal cake (“Trianon”)

So yes, last month I celebrated my birthday. 29 years. For the third time. For some, a birthday is a

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