Bunch of Sweet Treats (from August to November 11th)

  

 The latest experiment using my new piping tips.

I haven't uploaded any pictures of the sweets I made for a few months, so here they are!

8月からあれこれお菓子を焼いてます。

 

 

 I made this for my partner's birthday.

 

 Pâte à biscuits with cocoa powder and orange peel 

and chocolate whipped cream on top.

 

Chocolate chip cookies.

 

Roll cake with lingonberry butter cream and coffee butter cream.

For this butter cream, I used Italian meringue.

 

Broyer cookies (a kind of almond flour based cookies) 

with some jam sandwiched.

I made the one with orange zest in the dough, too, 

which turned out to have more flavor.

 

Butter-free madeleine with dry prune purée.

This recipe uses pureed dry prune as a substitute of butter. 

 

Orange upside-down cake.

 

This cake contains some yoghurt to reduce the amount of butter.

 

Butter-less madeleine with dry apricot purée.

I added diced dry apricot, too.

It tastes milder than the one with dry prune.

The one with prune has more distinctive flavor. 

 

Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache.

 

I added tiny bit of Grand Marnier in the ganache.

 

Orange weekend cake with orange peel I soaked in syrup for several days.

 

Lingonberry cheesecake.

I used a recipe from a Pennsylvania Dutch recipe book as reference.

This is sour cream based cake.

 

Apple pie with pâte feuilletée, a kind of French puff pastry. 

 

It was fun to make layers!

It is pretty rich and heavy, though.

 

It tastes good with vanilla ice cream. 

I put some custard cream with apples.

 

 Madeleine-shaped financier and Palmier (Palm-leaf-shaped pie cookie).

 

I made some choux pastry, too.

 

Finger-size cream puff and eclair with chocolate custard cream.

 

Here is ring-shaped choux with chocolate and lingonberry custard cream.

 

The chocolate custard tastes better with a hint of sour lingonberry.

 

Tart with lingonberry and banana.

 

I used pâte brisée for the tart crust.

I put some almond cream to add some sweetness 

to the contrast of sourness of lingonberry.

 

Mini cupcake with lemon curd and Swiss meringue butter cream. 

 

 I put the rest of the dough of the cupcake in the madeleine pan.

 

This butter cream was easy to pipe with, but tasted too buttery.

The lemon curd tasted pretty good.

 

I wanted to try making some roses using butter cream.

I also tried the cake flour called "Softasilk", 

which is famous among some Japanese living in U.S.A.

The cake turned out to be really soft.

 

I used heavy whipping cream to cover the whole cake.

I also added a little bit of lemon curd between the cake layers.