Korena in the Kitchen

Bread, Breakfast & Brunch, Recipes

Cranberry White Chocolate Lemon Tea Braid

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December 13, 2016

Along with the perfect Christmas dessert and the best Christmas cookies, every year I’m on the look out for a delicious holiday breakfast or brunch pastry – and this year, I think I may have stumbled on it kind of by accident. I had half a batch of challah dough…
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Cakes & Pies, Daring Bakers Challenges, Recipes

Torta Della Nona

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December 7, 2016

Creamy custard inside a crisp, cookie-like tart shell, the whole thing flavoured with vanilla and lemon and topped with toasted pine nuts. Is your mouth watering yet? It should be, because I’ve just described an Italian dessert called Torta Della Nona and it is SO GOOD. Translated as “grandmother’s cake”,…
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Cakes & Pies, Fruit, Recipes

German Apple-Quince-Almond Cake {Apfel-Quitte-Marzipan-Kuchen}

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November 20, 2016

I’ve been eagerly anticipating Luisa Weiss‘ new book, Classic German Baking, ever since she first started sharing her adventures in recipe development about a year ago. I have yet to get my hands on the actual book, but since its release, several recipes have popped up online, including one for…
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Fruit, Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes

Apple, Pear and Quince Speculoos Crumble

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November 16, 2016

I got Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi for my birthday this summer and spent about three days straight reading it from cover to cover. By the time I was done, I had bookmarked so many recipes that it looked like this:
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Fruit, Recipes

Vanilla Poached Quince

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November 11, 2016

A few weeks ago, my kitchen was overrun with apples, pears, green tomatoes, and quince. Apples and pears are fairly routine autumnal fruit to deal with (I made apple sauce and dried pears, among other things) and the green tomatoes became green tomato mincemeat, but the quince left me at…
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Cakes & Pies, Chocolate, Daring Bakers Challenges, Recipes

Decorated Swiss Rolls

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October 27, 2016

This month I hosted the Daring Kitchen challenge and invited the group to make decorated Swiss rolls, aka “deco rolls”, in the style of Japanese food blogger and cookbook author Junko, who has taken the internet by storm with her adorable “kawaii” versions. This concept is a standard French pastry…
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Torta Hrapocusa (Dalmatian Dol Cake)

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October 13, 2016

I got all proactive and made September’s Daring Kitchen challenge recipe – an almond and walnut cake called “hrapocusa” – at the beginning of the month, and then of course didn’t get my act together to post about it on time. Like, at ALL. Sigh. ANYWAY. Back in September, Jason…
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Cakes & Pies, Fruit, Recipes

Apple Pies and Pastry Tricks

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September 23, 2016

Now that it’s officially fall, part of me is like, “where the heck did summer go so fast?” and the other part of me (the part that prefers slippers to shorts and likes putting on a jacket to go outside) is all, “FALL! I’VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG!” Other than…
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{Naked} Carrot Wedding Cake

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September 10, 2016

In July, I made a wedding cake for my friend Clare and her now-husband Tony. I’ve known Clare for most of my life – we first met in grade 1, and we shared the unique experience of having parents who were teachers and/or principals in a small town, thereby ensuring…
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Daring Bakers Challenges, Fruit, Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes

Poached Plum Pavlova with Spun Caramel

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September 4, 2016

I have majorly fallen off the Daring Kitchen challenge bandwagon (the last challenge I did was in May!), and even now, my attempt to jump back on is a week late. But better late than never, right? August’s challenge, set by Marcellina, was the pavlova: a crisp meringue base filled…
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