White chocolate cheesecake with a hint of vanilla and orange

I'm very particular about my cheesecake. I like it heavy and dense. It should be a little moist but not too much. I like a cookie base, especially if it's crunchy. I allow some bit of experimenting with flavors, but not chocolate or the pink cheesecakes will always lose to simple vanilla cheesecakes. How about …

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Chocolate yogurt bundt cake

Happy Easter everybody! It's been a while. I don't know how many times I've already written those words and many more I wanted but stopped myself. Who wants to read about blogger's struggles to write. There are at least four more recipes waiting in a line and somehow I'm sitting and thinking how I like this …

Poppy seed butter cookies

I hoped to try more cookie recipes this year, but those three will need to do. Those poppy seed butter cookies are very old school, with just a bit of crunch of poppy seeds. Butter makes tiny layers and they just melt in your mouth. I don't think there is more beautiful smell then one of butter. …

Cobblestone gingerbread cookies

Here it goes another recipe for gingerbread cookies. This one is more economical, there is only 100g of honey, but the structure is more traditional than Alpine gingerbread cookies. They are heavier and they are slightly quicker to make. The coffee icing makes them more special. My friend couldn't stop eating them. Enjoy! Cobblestone gingerbread …

Polish Alpine gingerbread cookies (pierniczki jak alpejskie)

  I tell you a secret, I'm not a big fan of homemade Polish gingerbread cookies, they always were too dry for me, but the store-bought ones are a different story - soft and light, filled with jam, or not. This recipe really delivers, it promises light and easy gingerbread cookies, almost like the store-bought.  If …

Mulled pear cider

I have far too many cookbooks. There are some I barely ever use, even though from time to time I grab one of them and flip through it, hoping that one I day I find a recipe I want to try. Some books scare me because of their age, being particular and most importantly - …

Easter saffron yeast cake (babka)

This Easter I have decided that we will make a yeast cake (babka), instead one of our favorite cheesecake. That was a bold decision. I like yeast cakes, especially when they are still warm and have crumbled on the top, but in my head, they exist with a summer day preferably in a countryside. Don't ask …

Chocolate cardamom cookies

I've always dreamt of being of those ladies that bake tone of cookies ahead of Christmas, they use all the fancy cookie cutters and then decorate it with the royal icing. But truth to be told, I don't like icing. Cutting too many shapes drives me mad, but I do love cookies. So I keep an eye …

Earl grey herrings

I want to tell you this is another Polish food post. Well it is and it isn't. Herrings are popular in Polish cuisine, but Swedes are probably more known of them. These are actually called Swedish style. So you know, finding the origins of food is complicated. They are Polish enough to be found in Polish shop around Ireland. You can …

Parkin – Yorkshire gingerbread

There is still wintery vibe around. Ireland is not New York and we haven't seen snow, except in mountains, but I still want to wrap with the warmest blanket, get a cat on my laps, grab a book and eat something sweet. That cake would be perfect snack for a winter walk, along with Thermos of hot …