Tiramisu

So it was my fiancé's bday (his "Jesus year", H&M informed me. I won't go into detail.) last weekend and among all the goodies was a wee fave dessert of ours- Tiramisu. I make mine with Frangelico, as it is one of my absolute favourite flavoured liqueurs one could have ever made. Thank you Italy. Oh, ha, and thank-you for inventing something so fabulous like Tiramisu, too, while I'm at it!

Tiramisu Recipe CM-style

2dl espresso (or strong coffee)

Brew and let cool

5 Tbsp Frangelico

(3 Tbsp Amaretto and 2Tbsp Cointreau is the original recipe)

Add to coffee

2 egg yolks

50g sugar

Mix until very light yellow colour

Zest of 1/2 Lemon

300 g Mascarpone

Add to egg yolk mixture, mix gently

In a separate bowl, combine the following:

2 egg whites

1 pinch of salt

Beat until very stiff (hold-bowl-upside-down-kinda-stiff)

1 Tbsp sugar

Add to egg whites, keep on mixing for a bit, then gently add mascarpone mixture

1pkg lady fingers (roughly 150g)

Layer the dessert starting with the ladyfingers quickly dipped in the coffee mixture, layer, topped with mascarpone mix, ladyfingers dipped in coffee, mascarpone mix... refrigerate and decorate with sifted cacao powder shortly before enjoying.

Happy birthday Coco! You're the sugar to my pie, baby!

Schoggimakkroenli

A new 're-created' creation... oh so delicious!

This was my most favourite treat when I was a child. We used to go to bakeries where we'd get them fresh along with a cup of hot chocolate.

Yet another taste of lovely Europe for dear North America! :-)

Hazelnut crust topped with a smooth chocolate butter cream, glazed with rich callebaut chocolate.

The combination of hazelnut and dark chocolate is absolutely mouth watering!

A good cake for a good friend

I wasn't sure what type of cake to make for my friend's bday. Not that I was out of ideas, there are just so many!

The solution to my "problem" (wouldn't call it that, but that's what I thought it was at the time)all started with a thought I had one morning laying in bed. ....Ridiculous to think about marzipan first thing in the morning, but that's just what foodies do... For ages now I've been wanting to try out some new marzipan shapes and especially colourings with natural additives. I thought I'd love to make little carrots out of marzipan. So a carrot cake it was!

I used a European carrot cake recipe, which made an amazingly flavourful and very dense cake and topped it with a whipped vanilla-cream cheese icing. And... Il carroties!

I used turmeric powder to colour the root and the greens I coloured with just that. Greens. I had some of the Enerex greens powder left in my cupboard and it worked perfectly fine!

And some manly candles..Et voila!

Pizza Margherita

Ola!

Times at Cafe Melange have been busy. Amongst the usual deliveries, there is lots of creative brain storming happening...

It is now time for the Pizza Bleu to go to summer-hibernation as it seems to be more of a fall/winter Pizza.

We welcome the lovely Pizza Margherita to our Menu for the summer months! Beautiful and so tasty in its simplicity!

Homemade tomato sauce, real Mozzarella (Bocconcini) topped with finely minced fresh Bazil. Mmh. Delizioso!!!

Demo

Cafe Melange will be demoing mini Linzer Tartlets and mini Pizzas at the Kootenay Coop on Thursday, May 19!

Come by to try some samples between noon and 4!

See you threre...

Photo: Julia Cedar

Article in the Kootenay Coop Newsletter

Voici l'article sur page 7.

http://kootenay.coop/newsletters/MayJuneNewsletter2011.pdf

Enjoy (and make sure you get a chance to drop by the Coop to try some goodies in person!) =:)

Photo: Julia Cedar