Archives for the ‘Dulce de leche’ Category

Fairies & cups make magic cakes

By rkhooks • May 3rd, 2008 • Category: Cake, Dulce de leche, Food events, Going out, La Cocotte, Paris

You say tomatoe (just imagine the yankee accent ) I say tomato (and a brit one here). The same could go for cupcakes or as us Brits call them fairy cakes. I was doing some research for my next cookery class. The theme is cupcakes which is all the rage in Paris and [...]



Say it with…valentine mooncakes

By rkhooks • Feb 9th, 2008 • Category: Dessert, Dulce de leche, Food blog events, Food blogs, Sweets

“Won’t you be my valentine?” A question which will be on many people’s tongues this 14th. Not mine though. I tend to be a bit more cynical and find the whole thing way too commercial. But then I guess if you’re unluckily attached to someone who needs that kind of reminder, than once a [...]



Menu for Hope IV

By rkhooks • Dec 10th, 2007 • Category: Biscuits, Cake, Chocolate, Dessert, Drinks, Dulce de leche, Food blog events, Food blogs, Food events, French blogs, Going out, La Cocotte, Other blogs, Paris, Sweets

The lovely Fanny from Foodbeam sent me an email a couple of weeks ago, asking whether I could participate in the Menu for Hope IV event. Menu for hope is an annual fundraising event masterminded by chez Pim raising money for the UN World Food Programme feed the hungry.
Each year, food bloggers from all over [...]



Hot off the press…

By rkhooks • Nov 21st, 2007 • Category: Biscuits, Cake, Chocolate, Dessert, Dulce de leche, Food, Food events, La Cocotte, Other, Paris, Recette en français, Savoury, Sweets, recipe, snack

Hate to blow my trumpet, but who cares I’m so excited about being on the cover (with my cake) of this month’s Elle à table I just had to share it with you. There’s an 8 page article inside “Christmas dinner with the 4 girls from la Cocotte“. Andrea and I wrote the recipes and [...]



Fifth time lucky muffins

By rkhooks • Oct 31st, 2007 • Category: Dessert, Dulce de leche, Food, La Cocotte

The days have been zooming past extremely quickly. Falling like the leaves on the trees at the mo. They’ve been filled up with plenty of delicious (very exciting) things. I was busy making plenty of Christmas food for a Elle à table (hitting French newstands in November), working on Christmas biscuits for La Cocotte, writing [...]