Generous apple brioche

A delicious brioche sweet bread, ideal fruity treat for the season.

It’s garnished with one of these superb akibae apples.

To get a delicious fluffy dough, the main ingredient is time.
One day, you mix yeast, sugar, water and flour to make a sponge. The next day, you make a dough. Two days later you bake it. The net day you enjoy the delight.
300 g bread flour
1/2 cup of yeast “sponge”.
40 g sugar
80 g butter
1 egg + 1 white
about a cup of milk

It’s filled with cubes of apple, many. Also, cocoa chips, Grand-Marnier soaked raisins, cinnamon.

On top, sliced almonds, sugar, cinnamon.

Really, be patient, as it gets so much better a whole day after baking.

La chinoise, the mythical brioche from the East

Chinois, it’s Chinese people, it’s over-complicated language, that’s it, just this cake.

Te recipe is secret… Even myself, I don’t know what I put in it.

another chinois
Yes, that changes each time.

Yum….

Tarte automne-été aux trois fruits (Summer-Fall triple pie)

Three fruits and a nut. Still Summer, already Fall.
A dessert out of this world.

Pâte sablée.

Poires au vin (drunken pears).

Figues fraîches.

Caramel coated walnuts.

You’ve counted only 2 fruits ? True. There is raspberry jam hidden somewhere.

Etxeko biskotxa : the Basque pie invasion !

My etxeko biskotxa. Home-made gâteau basque. No, you’re never too rich. Particularly if you’re a cake. Or if the currency of your fortune is a delicious specialty…

Yes. I have 5 ! But they are small. And I shared. And they could have been bigger and I could have not shared and eaten them all too…

Vanilla cream. This is the classic ! There is a good recipe given by the museum dedicated to this pastry.

Framboise (raspberry) and cassis (black currants). Bought jams.

Home-made ume plum jam to fill the 4th type :

Yes, that makes 5. There were 2 vanilla ones.

Tarte alsacienne à la fraise et à la myrtille (double berry cake)

It’s a cousin from Lorraine’s tarte au sucre (here). A little more elaborated. Both are nice, that depends if you’re looking for simplicity or something more cake-like.

Strawberries (fraises) and blueberries (myrtilles) are garnishing it. Frozen fruits do the trick perfectly.

And there is some streusel on top.