Posted by: realistic bird on: October 1, 2009
My brother always asks me to make tarts for him. He usually means the ones with pastry base, which I ignore because it is time consuming; instead I make it with a biscuit case. Well, in the end he eats it because it is tasty after all. I’ll do the pastry base some day [...]
Posted by: realistic bird on: May 13, 2009
I thought this time I would do a little experimenting with the tart filling so I replaced it with vanilla pudding. My brother told me yesterday that I made a pudding/cheesecake/tart; the filling was pudding, the base is the one usually used in cheesecake recipes, and the overall look looked like a tart.
Serves 6-8 persons
Ingredients: [...]
Posted by: realistic bird on: March 25, 2009
Serves 10
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon orange juice
55g mixed glace fruit, chopped (I used dried fruits)
450ml
4 teaspoons gelatin
100g sugar
½ teaspoon salt
3 eggs
250ml whipping cream
Crust:
170g digestive biscuits, crushed
70g butter, melted
1 tablespoon sugar
Method:
1) Crust: Mix the crushed biscuits, butter, and sugar. Press evenly and firmly over the bottom and side of a 9in (23cm) pie plate. Refrigerate until firm.
2) In [...]
Posted by: realistic bird on: March 12, 2009
Ingredients:
3 cups (300g) digestive biscuits, crumbled
½ cup (100g) butter, melted
400g sweetened condensed milk
1 cup (250ml) water
2 ½ tablespoons semolina
Zest of one lemon
About 500g mixed fresh fruits
½ cup apricot jam (or any fruit jam you wish)
1 table spoons water
Method:
1) For the crust, combine the biscuits crumbs with the butter and rub to form dough (the biscuits become [...]
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