A Few Recent Homemade Desserts


I've been wondering for a while what to focus my blog on, and it dawned on me recently.  Food, travel and running.  These three things seem to be what my life is based around at the moment.

So, starting things off, here are a few desserts my partner has made over the last couple of months.  Future postings will no doubt include more pictures, and also recipes.  But for now, these will have to do.

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Firstly, we have a cheescake that Jen made around the start of the year.  A simple vanilla cheesecake with some chocolate sprinkles on top.  The base was different from the usual cheesecake base, but I'll be dammed if I can remember what she used now.

Here are a couple of pictures once the cake was complete.  Enough to serve 8-12 people, 4 of us destroyed this in one sitting!  Initially only half was served up between 4 of us, but then we decided to have a second helping.


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Next up, not strictly a dessert, and something not made by Jen.  Since visting NYC in March 2011 I've never had "normal" pancakes, I now only have "American Style" pancakes, usually with blueberries.  Roll on shrove Tuesday, and I'm back making more, this time with a tweaked recipe.  My best pancakes so far!




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Jen's next mission was to make a Bakewell Tart.  Remember, neither of us have had any culinary training, we just both have an interest in good food, and also makeing our own.  It's fair to say that she did well with this one.  She even made the pastry herself from scratch, something that she has never done before!


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Finally, Jen's most recent cake, a lemon and poppy seed cake.  This was made last night (29th March) ready for her mother's birthday today.  Jen has made plenty of Lemon/Lemon & Poppy Seed cakes in the past.  With this one she added a twise, she used frosting and Lemon Curd in the middle.  Damn this one was good!






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