Bublanina varies with the season and the fruit that is available. It’s a bit like a coffee cake in texture and is probably why it is sometimes served as a breakfast pastry.
Category: Pastries Recipes
Cream Puffs
Originating in France, cream puffs are also known as profiterole and choux a la creme. Cream puffs are a French dessert pastry filled with whipped cream, pastry cream, ice cream or custard.
Apple and Ricotta Pastry Squares
Sweet & juicy crisp apples pair nicely with ricotta in these flaky pastry squares. Add dollop of whipped cream before serving for added decadence.
Pastizzi – Maltese Savoury Pastry
Pastizzi are savoury pastries, typical of the Maltese street-food. They’re usually filled up with ricotta cheese or with peas. This recipe is for ricotta pastizzi
Kanafeh – Sweet Cheese Pastry
Kanafah , also spelled kunafeh or kunafah is a Middle Eastern cheese pastry soaked in sweet, sugar-based syrup
Apple Turnovers
These apple turnovers have all of the textures and flavours of an apple pie but requires only basic skills and takes a fraction of the time (especially if you buy the puff pastry instead of making it yourself).
Blackberry-Apple Turnovers
With a dense crispness and a high sugar-to-acid ratio, Pink Lady apples are ideal for these pies. Even when tender, they hold their shape and retain some firmness, for a nice contrast to the juicy, collapsed berries.
How to Make a Lattice Top for a Pie
Clear instructions and pictures on how to make a lattice top with pastry for a pie.
Flaky Pie Crust Dough
This easy pie crust doesn’t require any special equipment and by using your hands you ensure that the butter ends up in irregular pieces and the dough doesn’t get overworked.
Sweet Shortcrust Pastry – Pâte Sucrée
Pâte sucrée (sweetcrust pastry, sweet dough, or sweet paste) is made with the addition of sugar, which sweetens the mix and impedes the gluten strands, creating a pastry that breaks up easily in the mouth.
Sausage Rolls
The basic composition of a sausage roll is generally a sheet or sheets of puff pastry formed into tubes around sausage meat and glazed with egg or milk before being baked. They can be served either hot or cold.
Malina Bublanina – Raspberry Bubble Cake
The universal Czechoslovakian cake, called Bublanina, varies with the season and the fruit that is available. It’s a bit like a coffeecake in texture and is probably why it is sometimes served as a breakfast pastry. Commonly used fruits are raspberries, sweet cherries, tart cherries, plums, nectarines, apricots, strawberries and blueberries.
Tunisian Egg Briks
Brik or Brick is a Tunisian derivative of the börek consisting of thin warka pastry around a filling commonly deep fried. The best-known version is the egg brik, a whole egg in a triangular pastry pocket with chopped onion, tuna, harissa and parsley.
Qottab – Persian Almond Pastries
Qotab (Persian: قطاب qottâb) is an almond-filled, deep-fried Persian pastry. It’s prepared with flour, almonds, icing sugar, vegetable oil and cardamom. Some versions of ghotab may contain other ingredients, since most of the best recipes are family secrets that are jealously guarded.
Nuomici – Nuo Mi Ci – Glutinous Rice Balls
Nuomici (糯米糍 Nuo Mi Ci) is a type of Chinese pastry. It is one of the most standard pastries in Hong Kong. It can also be found in most Chinatown bakery shops overseas. It is also referred to as glutinous rice dumpling.