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Robin’s Egg Toasted Coconut & Chocolate Cake

April 3, 2021 By Korena in the Kitchen 4 Comments

Every Easter I see these pretty speckled robin’s egg cakes pop up all over the food internet, and I’ve been wanting to make one myself for a while. I’ve also been wanting to make a coconut layer cake, so I combined the two and here we are!

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Chocolate, Recipes Tagged With: baking, buttercream, cake, chocolate, coconut, dessert, Easter, ganache, mini eggs, pastry cream, recipe, robin's egg, Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Double Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake

August 18, 2019 By Korena in the Kitchen 3 Comments

I made this cheesecake several months ago (yes, I’m terribly behind on posting) to mark the retirement of a colleague. When I asked her what her favourite kind of cake was, she promptly answered either chocolate cake or cheesecake. I love it when people have a ready answer to that question, and also, how can you go wrong with either option?

Double Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake | Korena in the Kitchen

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Chocolate, Recipes Tagged With: baking, cheesecake, chocolate, dessert, raspberry, recipe, white chocolate

Raspberry Almond Shortbread Sandwich Cookies

March 30, 2019 By Korena in the Kitchen 2 Comments

A few years ago I bought a humble little sandwich cookie at the cafe in the building where I used to
work, and its almondy-raspberry-crumbly-shortbreadiness has been in my head ever since. I meant to finally re-create this cookie and post it in time for Valentine’s Day (hence the hearts), but, well, it’s the end of March now, so you can see how that went. But these are definitely better late than never, and like most good cookies, are much more than the seemingly simple sum of their parts: two almond shortbread cookies perfumed with lemon zest, sandwiched with tart yet sweet raspberry jam, drizzled with creamy white chocolate.

Raspberry Almond Sandwich Cookies | Korena in the Kitchen

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Cookies & Squares, Recipes Tagged With: almond, baking, cookies, raspberry jam, recipe, sandwich cookies, shortbread, white chocolate

Blackberry Basil White Chocolate Tart

October 1, 2018 By Korena in the Kitchen 8 Comments

Blackberry season almost completely passed me by this year. Normally I’m out scouring the neighbourhood ditches and roadsides for blackberries the minute I notice they are ripe, but somehow I missed the signs and nearly forgot. Luckily, once I remembered, the blackberry item I had in mind only required a small handful of berries, which is how I ended up foraging for blackberries in the rain at the very tail end of the season and came up with just enough for this pretty little tart.

Blackberry Basil White Chocolate Tart | Korena in the Kitchen

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Fruit, Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes Tagged With: baking, basil, blackberries, dessert, ganache, recipe, tart, white chocolate

Pistachio Petit Four Cake

August 6, 2018 By Korena in the Kitchen 4 Comments

Every year I carefully plan what kind of birthday cake I’m going to make myself, and this year I was imagining some kind of over-the-top creation with chocolate and peanut butter. But my chocolate cake craving was satisfied when I made a Devil’s Food Cake with Marshmallow Frosting (OMG) for a co-worker’s last day potluck, and then I changed tacks completely when I came across this little pistachio layer cake beauty, boasting not only pistachio sponge but also apricot jam, thin ribbons of marzipan, chocolate ganache, and flowers. And as a cake project lover and general fussy-pastry enthusiast, it seemed like the perfect birthday present to myself.

Pistachio Petit Four Cake | Korena in the Kitchen

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Chocolate, Recipes Tagged With: apricot jam, baking, birthday cake, cake, chocolate, dessert, layer cake, marzipan, petit four, pistachio, recipe

Dorie’s Cocoa-Tahini Cookies with Sesame Crunch

June 10, 2018 By Korena in the Kitchen 2 Comments

Dorie's Cocoa-Tahini Cookies with Sesame Crunch | Korena in the Kitchen

I first made these cookies back in October and couldn’t wait to post about them because they were so delicious: a double chocolate cookie (cocoa powder plus chocolate chunks) amped up with nutty tahini paste, and then kicked over the edge with the addition of candied sesame seed brittle. Then when I sorted through all the photos I’d taken (long after all the cookies were gone, unfortunately) I wasn’t happy with how any of them turned out and decided against posting them. But I couldn’t stop thinking about these wonderful cookies, and so when I made them again this weekend, I not only kicked myself for waiting eight months to do so, I also looked through my old photos and realized that they were actually fine. So here we are! Sorry for taking so long 😉

Dorie's Cocoa-Tahini Cookies with Sesame Crunch | Korena in the Kitchen

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Cookies & Squares, Recipes Tagged With: baking, chocolate, cookies, Dorie Greenspan, recipe, sesame seeds, tahini

White Chocolate Cranberry Almond Biscotti II

February 14, 2018 By Korena in the Kitchen 1 Comment

Confession: these white chocolate cranberry almond biscotti were in fact part of my Christmas baking. I make them every year for holiday gift-giving, and they are by far the crowd favourite. I personally only bake them at Christmas, but there’s no reason they can’t be made at any other time of the year. For example, Valentine’s Day. Because homemade biscotti is a sure-fire way to say “I love you”.

White Chocolate Cranberry Almond Biscotti | Korena in the Kitchen

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Cookies & Squares, Recipes Tagged With: almonds, baking, biscotti, Christmas baking, Christmas cookies, cranberries, recipe, white chocolate

Grandpa’s 100th Birthday Cake {Chocolate Mocha Layer Cake with Vanilla Buttercream}

January 27, 2018 By Korena in the Kitchen 4 Comments

My Grandpa turned 100 in December – an occasion that deserves a celebratory cake if there ever was one! I asked him what his favourite kind of cake was, and when he answered “fruitcake”, I had a worrying flashback to the last fruitcake I encountered – which happened to be the cake at his own wedding 11 years ago when he married his sweetheart Daphne, where it took three people plus a cleaver and an axe to cut through the royal icing on the outside.

using a cleaver and an axe to cut the wedding cake | Korena in the Kitchen

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Chocolate, Recipes Tagged With: baking, birthday cake, cake, chocolate cake, mocha, recipe, Swiss Meringue Buttercream, vanilla

BraveTart’s Homemade Oreos

December 7, 2017 By Korena in the Kitchen 5 Comments

It’s been years since I ate a real Oreo, but I can say with 100% certainty that BraveTart’s Homemade Oreos are BETTER!

In the summer, I joined the Food52 Baking Club on Facebook, and every month we all bake out of a selected baking book and share our results and experiences with the recipes. It’s pretty fun, especially for a baking nerd like me, however I’ve fallen a little behind (a new book to bake from every month gets a bit overwhelming) and had committed to working my way through some of the past month’s cookbooks that were already on my shelves (including Dorie’s Cookies, Classic German Baking, and Tartine). Then November’s cookbook came around: the recently released BraveTart by Stella Parks, a trained pastry chef who writes a blog of the same name and is also an editor at Serious Eats, where she shares her knowledge of food history, baking science, and pastry technique. Basically, she really really knows her stuff – case in point, these Oreos, which are phenomenal. I wasn’t going to buy this month’s cookbook, but after making these cookies from the recipe posted on Serious Eats, it is now on my list (and no, this is not a paid advertisement).

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Cookies & Squares Tagged With: baking, BraveTart, chocolate, cookies, Food52 Baking Club, Oreo, recipe

Chocolate-Covered Digestive Biscuits

April 24, 2017 By Korena in the Kitchen 1 Comment

You know when you go to the store to buy cookies, and come home with said cookies plus ingredients to make other cookies? Yeah, that’s how these chocolate-covered digestive biscuits came about (in line with my resolution to bake more cookies), but because they are made with nothing but regular pantry staples, the only ingredient I had to buy was the chocolate (which is normally a pantry staple for me, but I’d eaten it all).

Chocolate-Covered Digestive Biscuits | Korena in the Kitchen

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Cookies & Squares, Recipes Tagged With: baking, British, chocolate, cookies, digestive biscuits, oats, recipe, whole grain

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