This is a white chocolate tahini tart, made with swirls of dark chocolate and Maldon salt on top. Unlike most white chocolate desserts, it’s not overly sweet. This white chocolate tahini tart is a play on unexpected flavors – tahini, chocolate, and salt are unexpected best friends!
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Semolina Cardamom Rose Cake
This semolina rosewater cake is a savory, sophisticated tea cake that is great for tea, breakfast, or dessert alongside some whipped cream. Semolina flour makes the cake’s crumb hearty and earthy, almost like a polenta cake. it would be perfect with a dollop of creme fraiche or whipped cream, and almost certainly perfect for afternoon tea or morning coffee.
…Matcha and Dark Chocolate Marble Brownies
Matcha brownies are the definition of “unexpected.” the matcha brings an earthy and grassy flavor, and the dark chocolate adds sweetness and complexity to these grown-up, Japanese-inspired brownies.
…Mexican Hot Chocolate-Inspired Brownies
Here’s a recipe for Mexican hot chocolate brownies. Mexican hot chocolate gets it flavor from cayenne and cinnamon, so these brownies have cayenne pepper and cinnamon added to them. To make them extra indulgent, there are chocolate chips and flaky salt on top, too.
…Vanilla Cake Decorated with Roses
This is a vanilla flower cake decorated with fresh roses. It’s a super simple white cake with vanilla frosting that looks much fancier than the effort it takes to make it! This is my favorite, go-to white cake recipe, too. It comes out every time and is light and fluffy.
…Ginger Peach Pie
This ginger peach pie is a showstopper. While pie is definitely a project – don’t underestimate how long it takes to bake! – it’s so, so good. This ginger peach pie is a modern take on summery peach pie, and honestly can be made with either fresh peaches in the summer or frozen in the winter.
…Lemon Meringue Pie with a Super Tall Meringue
Here is a recipe for a lemon meringue pie with mile-high meringue. Lemon meringue pie is in my top 3 favorite pies — after rhubarb and gooseberry (do i like tart things? apparently) — and this pie gets its name from its absurdly tall meringue topping. this pie will impress your significant other and is perfect for a ladies’ brunch.
…Buckwheat chocolate chunk cookies
Here is a recipe for buckwheat chocolate chunk cookies. These are some really lovely, sophisticated, grown-up chocolate chip cookies. Instead of using all-purpose flour, these use a portion of buckwheat flour in the mixture. These buckwheat chocolate chunk cookies are tender, flaky and just delicious!
…Black Sesame Marble Cheesecake
This black sesame marble cheesecake is no-bake, gorgeous, and such an interesting play on flavors. Using black tahini, it adds a savory, nutty hint to the cheesecake that you just don’t normally come across. It comes together so quickly and is not too sweet, and perfect for warmer weather. This black sesame marble cheesecake is a sophisticated take on cheesecake that is sure to impress!
…Cinnamon Bun Naked Cake with Brown Butter Frosting
This cinnamon bun naked cake with brown butter frosting is scented with cardamom, giving it a lovely spice scent. It has a cream cheese drizzle on top of brown butter frosting, which is very cinnamon bun inspired. I love this cake!
…Saffron Cookies
Here’s a recipe for saffron cookies, inspired by the coffee shop Blue Bottle’s saffron snickerdoodles. Like traditional snickerdoodles, these saffron cookies are chewy, tender, and sweet. These saffron cookies are unexpected, luxurious, and delicious!
…Rustic apple tart
this is a pretty freeform, rustic apple tart recipe that is more art than science. in the fall, come apple season, easy rustic tarts are a quick way to celebrate and use up your apples that you got apple picking. make this apple tart anytime you have a ton of apples!
…Easy Lemon Yogurt Cake
This easy lemon yogurt cake is perfect for breakfast or afternoon tea. it’s tender, the crumb is perfect, and the flavor is bright. another thing this easy lemon yogurt cake recipe does — it utilizes a yogurt cup as a measurement tool so you save dishes. i actually adapted this from a french parenting book – “bringing up bebe.” haha!
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