Tag: buttercream

Milk Chocolate Tart with Ombre Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream


Chocolate tart is a much loved dessert in our home. It is a taste sensation, with a smooth velvety ganache, melting in your mouth against a backdrop of crunchy tart biscuit. It can be sweet and bright (milk chocolate) or dark and salted (Salted dark chocolate). Use your favourite chocolate and this will be a…

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Dark chocolate Swiss Meringue Frosting


It’s been a while since I made icing for cakes. I didn’t like my old buttercream recipe as it was fiddly and a bit too buttery for my taste. I haven’t tried swiss meringue buttercream and thought it would be interesting to see how it turns out. Three words: WOW. WOW. WOW. Pillowy, soft and…

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Vanilla Bean Macarons with buttercream


I have been making all sorts of crazy flavours lately and my colleague requested her favourite flavour – vanilla.  A good vanilla dessert calls for good quality vanilla bean, not any of the imitation stuff. I’ve used seeds from vanilla bean to flavour the shells and then a Heilala vanilla paste to flavour the buttercream….

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Fruit loops macarons with buttercream


After the 100s and 1000s macaron, I wondered what a fruit loops macaron would taste /look like – would the colours remain throughout the macaron or would it become a single colour? (The fruit loops I used did not have the usual artificial flavourings, and instead were all natural ingredients such as beets and even…

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