All posts tagged: sweet

Tahini Roll – the divine combination of tahini and dough

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Did you know that if you mix tahini and molasses, you get a fluid and deadly sweet & gorgeous dessert? You can just dip your bread in it and bamm! You would probably get less sweet if you actually inject sugar in your veins… And my mother used to just spoon this whole thing, without making the sweet taste even a bit milder with the help of bread.. I’m hoping she stopped doing that (since she is 72 years old with a weight problem…). Ok but that was not the thing I was going to talk about!

Shortbread Cookies – Turkish version

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A friend of mine sent me a text message two weeks ago: Hi dear, one of my students (she gives private Turkish courses) discovered your blog and baked “simit”. She said that she loved the blog and that the recipes were so easy to understand. I told her that I would tell you immediately, to make you happy. And yes, I WAS happy!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie

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This autumn is definitely the one that I got to learn so many new uses of pumpkin. I somehow cannot remember much, but I guess the only thing I knew about it before was the traditional Turkish pumpkin dessert, that’s all (by the way, it is one of my favourite desserts in the whole world!).

Chocolate Chip Cookies with M&Ms

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For a while now, I was planning to learn how to make the softest and chewiest chocolate chip cookies. I was searching for the recipes and it looked quite easy but there was one quite big problem: where the hell would I buy chocolate chips?! I checked the baking section of many stores but there were just some crushed chocolates but no chips… Just when I decided to make crushed chocolate cookies, I remembered the life saver little store: behnford’s.. And yes, of course I could find chips there.. And so, I could finally bake the easiest but at the same time yummiest cookies!

Chocolate Beetroot Cake

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I am not a professional cook, nor have I been cooking for a really long time. I just have the rather newly acquired passion, it gets bigger and bigger as I cook more and as people love what I cook more. This motivates me big time! But, I am still learning the secrets of cooking and especially baking. So what do I do when I want to try experiment something really new for me?

Fresh Fig and Raspberry Cake

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My father and I, we have one HUGE difference: he LOVES figs – even though it is strictly forbidden for his diabetes diet, whereas I, well, I hate figs! Ok maybe hate is a bit too big word.. But I simply don’t like it. It is not the taste that I don’t like, it’s the texture and most importantly, it’s because fig is always too soft! But me hating fig does not mean that I cannot use it in my recipes for my guests. Especially when it’s the short season for figs and when it comes from Turkey all the way to Finland. So, when I was invited to a nice dinner party by a friend, I decided to try a fig recipe for dessert. Incidentally, I had bought a heart-shaped silicone cake mould in that morning from Ikea (heart-shape? ok i know that it’s quite lame, but I liked it somehow!) and this cake was the perfect opportunity to try the mould right away!

Chocolate Éclair

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I continue my journey of baking by one pastry that looks really cute, again from French cuisine. I actually never ever liked to eat that pastry myself. It is also very common in Turkey, you can find it in many patisseries all around Istanbul and in other cities. Even the name is taken directly from French, in Turkish patisseries you can find the name written in Turkish form, but is just actually the French name itself.

Baba au Rhum (Rum Baba) with Raspberries

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Exactly 10 years ago, I was living in Paris. I was an exchange design student who could barely afford her monthly living expenses, but I was happy. Because there were bakeries and patisseries in every corner of the city, thousands of them, and they were so attractive with their colourful and ever delicious cakes, cookies, pastries, quiches…

Strawberry Shortcake

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I don’t normally like creamy cakes. Ever since my childhood, my brother, for instance, loved all those creamy cakes that my parents bought from the patisseries in Istanbul, whereas I thought they were heavy and artificial in taste.