Cottage Cheese Cookies (Ukrainian: Syrne Pechyvo)

One of my favourite cookies of all time: cheesy, semi-sweet, flacky, crumbly and crunchy! They also can be savory if salt and spices are added instead of sugar (this variation likes even Nil, the cat!:))). As a part of the experiment, I didn’t add baking powder to these cookies, so they didn’t rise much. Usually…

Spiced Almond Pear Pie

This semi-sweet pear pie is one of those melting-in-your-mouth desserts. Its almond crust is super tender and crumbly, the pear filling is zesty and luscious. Tastes best on the second day when spices enhance the flavour even more. Despite not-so-pretty “dark” look the pie tastes heavenly:) Happy baking! Serves 6-8Takes 1 hr 35 mins (prep –…

Coconut Banana Bread with Chia (gluten-free)

Last week in the absence of any regular flour I was making this bread for my friend. Fantasizing all the way through, I tried to figure out where it would take me. The fantasy resulted into an incredibly fragrant, moist and spongy loaf of banana coconut bread! People’s feedback is always a kind of confirmation…

Lemon Tart ♥

Tarts can be considered as one of the most delicate desserts. They require certain skills and I’d say even mastery! My love for tarts is endless, but making them always takes time and patience. I’d write the whole post on tarts, sharing the tips that are important to follow, and intricacies of the process discovered during…

Seaweed Rice Muffins with Tofu (gluten-free)

“Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered”. Ray Bradbury’s words made me recently ponder over how to “preserve” the SEA. How to create something that would taste like the Sea ♥ And today I’ve eventually realized this lingering idea by making the SeaWeed muffins! Seaweed in…

Autumn Fruit Platter

The easiest recipe that doesn’t require lots of your time and effort:) When autumn fruit are so sweet and juicy…all you need is just to get these goodies:) They can be served independently or in addition to your morning oatmeal. It’s a tiny remind for you and me to have more fruit (and obviously veggies)…

Quiche with Cauliflower, Tomatoes, Сourgette & Feta

A Quiche! Sunny like turmeric:) Full of colourful veggies, herbs and tender feta cheese. Some other Quiche variations also can be found here: Mushroom Cheese & Pea Quiche Spinach Feta Quiche Caramelized Onion Tart (tart or quiche, plainly with onion) Happy cooking!:) Serves 8-10 Takes 1 hr 50 mins (prep – 30 mins, cooling of…

Raspberry Pie (Tart)

The pie I baked for my mum♥ Basically it represents what I love most in baked goods – lots of fruit and a just little of dough. The pie shell and cookies on top are thin, and the filling is intense and just impossibly delicious. Raspberries can be replaced by cherries, brambles, blue-/bilberries, apples, black and…

Coconut Poppy Seed Bundt Cake with Raspberries

I don’t know how to introduce this bundt cake except saying that it’s one of the best cakes I’ve ever made and tasted. Spongy but moist, sweet but with a bit of raspberry and lemon sourness. A blend of ground poppy seeds and coconut turned to be remarkably good. The glaze is made of butter, powdered…

Coconut Corn Shortbread Cookies (gluten-free)

There’s nothing like butter or margarine in this recipe but the cookies magnificently remind shortbread. Impressive, right? I guess the mixture of coconut and corn flours gives them such crumbly and tender texture. Moreover, coconut is responsible for an incredible flavour, and corn flour for a yellow colour:) Recently I’ve started making gluten-free cookies experimenting with…

Iced Lemon Raspberry Scones ♥

Scones! Raspberry Scones!! I was going to make them for so long. And my first attempt in August wasn’t very successful – the scones weren’t scones but flat squares (I’ll share the recipe of these squares though as they were very good too). When you mix a fair bit of berries into a dough they…

Airy Fruit Cake

Light, airy, moist cakes with fruit are best in the summer time! Any seasonal fruit will go well with this recipe! While making it I completely forgot about brambles that we picked with my friend and her kids before. Often happens when making something spontaneously and quickly as a guest. Brambles and apricots is one…