by Sucre Haven | Jun 24, 2021 | Make Ahead Bakes, Pastry creams, curds and sauce
I used this for some delish cinnamon rolls as well as sourdough babka that did not rise. It’s a good basic filling for breads, cookies as well as brownies. Here’s the recipe. Ingredients 250g brown sugar 150g unsalted butter 2 tsp ground cinnamon Method...
by Sucre Haven | Jun 24, 2021 | Make Ahead Bakes, Pastry creams, curds and sauce
It’s been a long long hiatus. Back here because it’s easier to get the recipes I need at times and wonder where I have saved them. I used this cream for a sourdough babka. Oh the babka is another story of 2 failed loaves, most of which I binned, the third...
by Sucre Haven | May 31, 2020 | Basics, Breads, Make Ahead Bakes, Photo Sharing
This CB period saw me baking lots of bread and this easy recipe has that nice crust and it freezes well too! I have these 2 scored differently bread frozen in the fridge to be consumed later. Come next week, there will be less time to bake. I’ve been dying to...
by Sucre Haven | Mar 22, 2020 | Basics, Cakes, Layered Cake, Make Ahead Bakes, Mud Cakes
This chocolate cake has a dense texture, but is very moist has a very rich chocolate flavour which is enhanced by the expresso in the recipe. This is suitable for layering or use enjoying it on its own. I used it to do the raspberry chocolate torte. (Makes a 6-inch...
by Sucre Haven | Aug 5, 2019 | Basics, Make Ahead Bakes, Pastries, Tarts and Pies
When I first saw mealy dough, I wondered how different it is from the flaky, crumbly dough I am familiar with. It turned out rather stretchy and less flaky. A search over the internet, I found that mealy dough is used mainly for making pies with liquid of custard...
by Sucre Haven | Aug 4, 2019 | Basics, Biscuits, Make Ahead Bakes, Sweets, Tarts and Pies
This is a really easy shortbread dough which I use to make cream tart cakes and you cannot believe how easy it is to make and how versatile this is too. The ingredients needed are also very few and it can be made ahead and frozen for use later. Here’s the...
by Sucre Haven | Jul 28, 2019 | Breads, Make Ahead Bakes, Pastry creams, curds and sauce, Sweets
Bread and Butter Pudding is a very English dessert and is really easy to make and is a good way to use up all the left over stale breads, dried fruits etc. Our trainer taught us a vanilla sauce to go with this easy dessert and it was delicious. (makes five 4-inch...
by Sucre Haven | Jul 28, 2019 | Basics, Make Ahead Bakes, Pastry creams, curds and sauce, Shatec, Sweets
Fragrant and flavourful, this versatile vanilla sauce can be used to drizzle over cakes, bread puddings, ice-cream and other desserts. I thought this is very similar to creme anglaise and doing a brief search over the internet, I think the difference is that creme...
by Sucre Haven | Nov 28, 2018 | Basics, Make Ahead Bakes, Tarts and Pies
To use up that raspberry pastry cream I made recently, I made some sweet pastry for raspberry tarts. I doubled the recipe to use up the 2 yolks I had left since this dough can be frozen for a good few months. Here’s a recipe to use up yolks and icing sugar makes...
by Sucre Haven | Nov 9, 2018 | Make Ahead Bakes, Sweets
Meringues kisses are very versatile as cake decorations and they are easy to make and a good way to use up excess egg whites. I made them a few times and the key factors for success are first to whip the egg whites real good and second to bake them at low temperature...
