Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• Cinnamon
• 8-10 apples

Preparation time
45 minutes

Preparation

• Fill an 8 or 9 inch pie plate with peeled sliced apples.
• Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and egg together.
• Place the egg mixture over the apples.
• Pour the melted butter over the flour mixture.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Cook at 350 F (175 C) degrees for 35 minutes or until apples are soft (Test them with a knife)

Serves: 6-8

Ingredients

• 1 pound blueberries
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 3 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2/3 cup flour
• 5 tablespoons of butter
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Preparation time
40 minutes

Preparation
Mix the flour, brown sugar, and salt in a bowl. Melt the butter and add it to the flour mixture. Stir this thoroughly and make it as granular as possible. Once you have a fine crumby texture put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours. This will be the crust and the top layer of the tarte.

Put the blueberries in a pan with the white sugar and cook it over a low heat for 10 minutes. Spread a thin layer of dough in the pie pan evenly over bottom. Then carefully spread the blueberries over the crust. Cover the layer of blueberries with the remainder of dough. Sprinkle the top with cinnamon and bake at 350° F (175° C).

Serves: 6

Ingredients

Crust

• 2 store-bought puff pastry sheets

Filling cream

• 125g butter
• 125g sugar
• 125g ground almonds
• 3 eggs

Preparation time
30 minutes

Preparation
Puff pastry is too difficult to make at home and can be bought frozen at the supermarket; it must be thawed before you start preparing the galette. Some pastry shops also sell their own puff pastry, which of course will taste even better.

Preheat oven to 230° Celcius (450° F). To make the filling cream (called “frangipane”), mix the sugar and butter and beat until smooth. Add the almonds and the eggs, and beat until smooth again (this can be done in a food processor). On a slightly floured cold surface, cut 2 circles the size of dinner plates out of the puff pastry. Put one of them on a floured baking sheet. Spread the frangipane cream on the circle, starting from the center, up to 2cm from the border. Brush water on the edge around the cream and place the second circle on top of the first one. Press all around the edges to seal them together.

If desired, you can decorate the galette by drawing patterns with a fork and brushing the top with an extra beaten egg.

Bake the galette for 25 to 30 minutes at 230° Celsius (450° F) until brown.

Recipe for: 1 tart

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons golden syrup
• 2 ounces fresh white bread crumbs
• rind of 1 lemon, finely grated
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 5 ounces rich shortcrust pastry

Preparation time
35 minutes

Preparation
Put the syrup into a saucepan with the breadcrumbs, lemon rind and juice and heat gently until just melted. Cool.

Roll out the dough on an 8 in. pie plate. Pour the syrup mixture. Roll out the dough trimmings and cut into long narrow strips. Form a lattice pattern over the filling.

Bake in a 400°F (200° C) oven 25 to 30 min. until the pastry is lightly browned.

Serve hot or cold.

Recipe for:  1 pie

Ingredients

• 1 – 9 inch unbaked pie shell
• 2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
• 1/4 cup butter or margarine
• 1 tablespoon instant coffee dissolved in 1/4 cup hot water
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup walnuts

Preparation time
20 minutes

Preparation

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In medium saucepan, melt chocolate and butter or margarine over low heat. Stir in coffee, sweetened condensed milk, eggs, and vanilla. Mix well. Pour filling into pastry shell. Top with walnuts.
• Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until center is set. Cool.

Serves: 1 tarte

Ingredients

Apples

• 2 1/2 sticks (20 tablespoons) butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 9 golden delicious apples, peeled, cored and halved

Pastry

• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 6 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces

Preparation time
40 minutes

Preparation
For apples, preheat oven to 400° F (200° C). Scatter butter pieces and sprinkle sugar evenly in a 9 to 10-inch copper tartin pan or heavy baking pan. Tightly pack apple halves around inside edge of pan, reserve 4, standing upright, nestled against one another, with round side tilted down. Place 4 remaining halves in similar position in center of pan. (Apples will shrink as they cook and slip round side down into pan.) Bake for about 2 hours. Transfer pan from oven to stove top and cook over medium-high heat until butter and sugar caramelize to a rich brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from heat, and gently ease sticky apples away from side of pan with a knife. Refrigerate overnight so that apples firm up and “confit” further.

For pastry, preheat oven to 350° F (175° C) about 1 hour before serving tart. Sift flour, salt, and sugar into a bowl. Rub butter into flour mixture with your fingers until it resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle in 3 tablespoons ice water and work dough until it just holds together. Form into a ball, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Roll out dough on a floured surface into a 12-inch circle. Drape pastry over apples and pan. Roll the rolling pin across of pan to cut off excess pastry and allow pastry to fall over apples against the inside edge of pan. Bake in oven (still at 350) until pastry is flaky and golden, about 20 minutes. Remove from oven, place a flat ovenproof platter on top of tartin pan and invert quickly and carefully. Do not unmold yet. Reduce heat to 300 degrees and return platter and pan to oven for 10 minutes. Remove tartin pan and serve warm.

Ingredients

• 1-1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup cooking oil
• 1 cup (8-oz) pineapple yogurt
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs (or 4 egg whites)
• 2 t. baking powder
• 1/2 t. salt

Ingredients for Sprinkling

• 1 cup. coconut (Reduce or skip if you are watching cholesterol)
• 1/3 c. sugar
• 1 t. cinnamon

Preparation time
40 minutes

Preparation

• Preheat oven to 350 deg F (175 deg C).
• Grease 9-in. square or 11×7-in. pan.
• In a large bowl, blend all ingredients (except that for the sprinkling). Beat 3-min. at minimum speed. Pour into prepared pan.
• In small bowl, combine coconut, sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle over batter. Bake 35-40 minutes.

Serves: 6 – 8

Ingredients

• 6 c flour
• 1 ts salt
• 1 ts sugar
• 1 ts yeast
• 2 c (approx) hot water

Preparation time
20 minutes

Preparation
Mix the dry ingredients, and make a well. A little at a time, pour in the water, mixing well until the dough forms a stiff ball. Knead the ball until smooth and elastic. Cover, and let rise until double. Heat oil to 375 degrees. Roll dough out until it is about 1/4″ thick. Cut into triangles. Fry until golden brown. Drain, and keep warm in a 150 degree oven. Serve with honey.

Serves 6

Ingredients

• 1-1/4 cups milk
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 4 tablespoons molasses
• 3 whole eggs
• 5 egg yolks
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup (packed) light brown sugar

Preparation time
20 minutes

Preparation
Heat the milk, cream, pumpkin puree, cinnamon and molasses over low heat until very hot, but not boiling. Combine the eggs, egg yolks and granulated sugar in a stainless steel mixing bowl or the top of a double boiler. Pour the hot milk mixture into the egg mixture a little at a time, whipping constantly.

Place the mixing bowl over a pot of boiling water and continue to whisk until the mixture is thickened (about 12 to 15 minutes.) It should boil slightly. Spoon the mixture into six 6-ounce custard cups and chill.

Just before serving, preheat the broiler. Sift the brown sugar over each cup and place the cups in a pan filled with ice. Place the entire pan under the broiler and cook until the sugar has formed a crisp crust. Serve immediately.

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups whipping cream
• 1 cup milk (do not use low-fat or nonfat)
• Pinch of salt
• 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup water
• 3 large eggs
• 2 large yolks
• 7 tablespoons sugar

Preparation time
30 minutes

Preparation
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F (165°C). Combine cream, milk and salt in heavy medium saucepan. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into cream mixture; add bean. Bring to simmer over medium heat. Remove from heat and let steep 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, combine 1 cup sugar and 1/3 cup water in another heavy medium saucepan. Stir over low heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and cook without stirring until syrup turns deep amber, brushing down sides of pan with wet pastry brush and swirling pan occasionally, about 10 minutes. Quickly pour caramel into six 3/4-cup ramekins or custard cups. Using oven mitts as aid, immediately tilt each ramekin to coat sides. Set ramekins into 13×9x2-inch baking pan.

Whisk eggs, egg yolks and 7 tablespoons sugar in medium bowl just until blended. Gradually and gently whisk cream mixture into egg mixture without creating lots of foam. Pour custard through small sieve into prepared ramekins, dividing evenly (mixture will fill ramekins). Pour enough hot water into baking pan to come halfway up sides of ramekins.

Bake until centers of flans are gently set, about 40 minutes. Transfer flans to rack and cool. Chill until cold, about 2 hours. Cover and chill overnight. (Can be made 2 days ahead.)

To serve, run small sharp knife around flan to loosen. Turn over onto plate. Shake gently to release flan. Carefully lift off ramekin allowing caramel syrup to run over flan. Repeat with remaining flans and serve.