Making Mary Berry’s Viennese Whirls
Xak’s Sabbatical Baking continues with Viennese Whirls: a buttery sandwich cookie featuring raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream.
Delicious December: A Month of Festive Desserts and Delicacies
We spent all of December baking delicious treats including gingerbread houses, pavlovas, biscotti, cracker candy, tiramisu, sugar cookies, and caramel candy.
Mini Pavlovas
We tried out a new gluten free meringue based recipe for one of our
Murder Mystery “Casual Tea” desserts: RecipeTin Eat’s Mini Pavlovas
Our Thanksgiving Feast Recap: Two Turkeys and New Traditions
We created a Thanksgiving feast featuring the Popeyes Cajun turkey, Texas Roadhouse Rolls, 4 appetizers, three types of potatoes, and our first time roasting a turkey!
A Lesson in Ina Garten’s Lemon Bars
We move onto making the desserts for our Murdery Mystery “Casual Tea” starting with a wonderful afternoon tea time treat: Ina Garten’s lemon bars.
Cream Scones (from the Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook)
We make classic cream scones from the Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea cookbook in preparation for our upcoming Murder Mystery “Casual Tea”
Mini Cheesecakes for Afternoon Tea Time
We made RecipeTin Eat’s mini cheesecakes as the dessert course for our afternoon tea at home featuring Xak’s other Sabbatical bakes.
Raised Game Pie (Inspired by Great British Bake Off)
Sabbatical Pastry Week continues! After watching Great British Bake Off, Xak decides raised game pie with hot water crust pastry and NO venison is on the menu for dinner.
Baking Buttery, Flaky Croissants for the First Time
It’s Sabbatical Pastry Week! For the first challenge, Xak attempts to bake buttery, flaky croissants for the first time ever.
Baking Paul Hollywood’s Povitica Bread
Bread week is coming to an end and Xak is re-visiting a Great British Bake Off technical challenge: povitica. Will he have more success this time around?