Cranachan is a traditional Scottish dessert with whiskey, oatmeal, and raspberries that celebrates the raspberry harvest. This quick and easy no-bake raspberry dessert is sweetened with honey and is immediately ready for serving! This is a great recipe for unexpected guests. For me, this quick raspberry dessert is like a real summer in the glass. […]
Lately, I’m totally into simple, rustic desserts, and apple crumble fits perfectly to that category: simple, rustic fruit dessert that is baked in the oven. Besides apples, crumble filling usually consists of peaches, berries, apricots, plums, pears and if you’re lucky, rhubarb. This apple crumble was the first thing I baked just after the earthquake […]
Thanks to the good people I’m surrounded with, so far I have collected a beautiful collection of old, vintage cookbooks. So, thank you again for that, you know who you are. 😉 Some of them belonged to my grandmothers. Some of them to someone’s aunts. Some are written in beautiful handwriting that very few people […]
I’ll just start this post in the most modest way possible: these are the softest, the most beautiful, BEST EVER Linzer cookies I’ve ever made in my life! And tried, obviously. These Linzer cookies will melt in your mouth and this is greatly due to one every day but very important ingredient! Starting this post, […]
Do you know how excited I am about the fact that this recipe is finally up on my blog? So much that I’m doing my happy dance while I’m writing this to you! Brad knows it. It’s strawberry season. Homegrown strawberries can be found at, literally, every step in Zagreb. With their alluring scent […]
The very first bite of these coconut energy balls was enough for me to say: you go, girl, you did it! You’ve actually made raw vegan coconut balls which irresistibly remind of Raffaello, but with real coconut products! This is one of those recipes after which you’re a bit sad when you need to wash […]
When you want to treat yourself with something totally irresistible and hedonistic, you should make this dessert. To me, this could easily become a treat for those moments in which you are so proud of some of your personal success that you want to pat yourself on the back. For example, you finally passed a terribly difficult […]
If you’re looking for rich, amazing blackberry cheesecake which doesn’t exactly looks perfect but tastes incredibly decadent, I can only congratulate you because my dear, you have just found it. This cheesecake proved to me that the cake can be both beautiful and little messy but still look and taste great. How to make a cake […]
I love to eat good butter cookies. Since I’m a big fan of a warm cup of coffee (or tea), I always like to have some cookies in my cookie tin to dip them in that soothing liquid, which is not that good for my waist, but it’s great for my mind. 🙂 Also, I […]
When I get the desire to eat some pancakes I become really serious about it. Something like Peter Stormare in Fargo. And Freddie Mercury would say: “I want it all and I want it now“. And then I bake this whole wheat American pancakes. Although my favorite American pancakes are those with pumpkin purée, these […]
