Walnut crust blue sweet potato pie

It’s very a simple and delicious coffee cake. Few ingredients, little process and full flavor.

Purple satsuma imo sweet potato. The potato has already a flavor of almond cream cake, so not much is needed.

I took the flesh of a baked potato, and smashed it with a little coconut cream, a little Grand Marnier liquor and very little sugar. Just mixed.

The crust is walnut, oatmeal, a little sugar, a pinch of salt and very little water, together in the blender. Then put in molds and dried in the oven. Well I should have taken it out before filling…
The taste is really pure walnut

So just fill the crust.

Serve chilled or warm. And enjoy with your coffee.

Crêpes soufflées aux kumquats et à la noix de coco

Dessert crêpes soufflées with all the golds of my pantry…

The carrot crepes served as a base. I filled them with coconut and Grand Marnier appareil.

Baked.

Then decorated with kumquats, caramelised with sugar, coconut oil and more Grand-Marnier.

Mandarin Suzette

La Chandeleur, the European crepe day is approaching dangerously… It’s February 2nd. I’m cheating. Starting in advance with an old classic.

Flavored with local mikan mandarin oranges, and flambeed with Grand-Marnier.

Nougat glacé aux noix et au miel

Walnut honey nougat ice-cream.

With raspberry coulis. Sweet and sour. That’s one of my favorite party dessert. I made some for the 13 desserts of Christmas and I had a few servings left. It is ice-cream so it can be stored in the freezer very conveniently.

The classic nougat is made of egg white, honey, roast nuts. This version is a honey Italian meringue, mixed with whipped cream. It is enriched by walnuts bits in caramel, a little Grand-Marnier soaked raisins and mandarin orange peel and grated lemon zest.

Then in the freezer, in a mold.

Crack… the bits of caramel nut stay deliciously crunchy. It really has the honey meringue flavor of nougat. And the citrus hints of Grand-Marnier.

The unsweetened raspberry sauce is a little sour. I didn’t add any sugar, on purpose. That makes a great contrast with the nougat.

Mandarin Stollen

This is the second post of the sourdough series. You know this guy :

Lawrence sourdough

That was the bubbly sourdough. I mixed a cup of it with 2 of flour, a little honey, water. And I’ve let it 24 hours :

Here is the “sponge”. I added, more flour, salt, sugar, kneeding, then the egg, then butter, kneeding, and the fruit mix. That also marinated 24 hours :

Grand Marnier, raisins, mikan mandarin orange peel, kurizato black sugar, roughly powdered almonds, cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander seed, ginger.

Folding the Stollen. That looked nice at that point. Too perfect…

I baked 2 chibis with the leftover of dough. That’s convenient to eat a sample without cutting the big one. If that’s terrible, you’ll know it… before serving it to guests or giving it to friends.

Yep, s. happens.

Really stuff happens :
1. Lawrence never pushes the dough up… it makes it softer. So the bread spreads around. And the Stollen lost its Stollen shape.
2. I passed butter on the top of the freshly baked bread, which was OK. I was supposed to do that.
3. I covered it with confectioner sugar imediatly thinking : the butter will “hold” the sugar. Stupid idea. Where is the delete key… Let me go back in past and not do it.

As you can see : crack ! crack !

I have eaten the babies after 1 day, 2 days, 3 half-days… and they were gone. Well the inside looked nice :

From the second days, they tasted good the citrus flavors of Grand Marnier and mandarin orange were already operating their charm. SUCCESS ! Well, wait…
The big freak has matured a week, I sugar-coated it on the cracks.