hazelnut – Valerie

Dobos Torte

By: Valerie January 5, 2020December 3, 2020

Cakes and Cupcakescaramel, chocolate, dobos, hazelnutLeave a Comment

This recipe is one that I have been avoiding for years. Every time I was looking for a beautiful and impressive dessert to make for a special occasion, I would look through the cookbook, come across the Dobos Torte and immediately think to myself that it looked way too complicated, so I would pass on it and do something else, something that was in my comfort zone. Again, looking for an elegant dessert, ideally a cake, to make for our New Year’s Eve party at friends’ place, I stumbled upon this recipe.

Chocolate Hazelnut Buttercream

By: Valerie January 1, 2020December 3, 2020

Frosting, sauces and garnishesbuttercream, chocolate, hazelnut3 Comments

For New Year’s Eve I offered to bring a dessert for our hosts since they were taking care of everything else. I wanted to make a beautiful-looking cake that would be tasty as well, and this is the chocolate hazelnut* buttercream required for the recipe. This is a more involved buttercream that requires more steps than simply whipping eggs with sugar and butter, but I enjoyed making it and the flavour was delicious.

Hazelnut Ricotta Cake

By: Valerie January 6, 2014December 5, 2020

Cakes and Cupcakeshazelnut, orange, ricotta2 Comments

After all the baking I did during the holidays, not many of which related to recipes from Anna’s cookbook, I figured it was time to get back in the game. I thus made this lovely hazelnut and ricotta cake. It is one of the easiest desserts I have made so far, mostly because we can do everything in the food processor, which by itself is an amazing feat. The cake is simple yet lovely.

Coconut Hazelnut Biscotti

By: Valerie March 10, 2013March 17, 2021

Cookies, Bars and Biscottibiscotti, coconut, hazelnutLeave a Comment

Another new type of dessert to be tried: biscotti! I had not eaten many biscotti in my life, much less make them. I now know that biscotti are twice-baked and are meant to be dry. Having a bunch of hazelnuts on hand that were begging to be used, I opted to try this coconut and hazelnut biscotti recipe. What a tremendous success!