These are the mini desserts I made for Christmas.It was a big fashion this year to make all these small desserts.
You can see fresh pineapple cubes baked in butter and dark sugar and the seed of a vanilla pod. Cooled en topped with a scoop of coconut ice cream.
A glass with a layer of stewed little cubes of apples seasoned with cinnamon, a layer of stewed berries and topped with a previously baked and cooled crumble crumbs.
Pears stewed in Poire Williams and honey with a very fine thin cookie
Mascarpone creme topped with fresh stawberrys that where marinated in orange juice or orange liqueur.
Stewed apple cubes topped with baked dice of what we call "peperkoek".
You best can exchange "peperkoek" with a cubes of a spiced cake. "Peperkoek " has all kind of spices in it like ginger, cinnamon, cloves and so on and honey witch makes it a soft but chewy kind of "bread " or cake. We here in Belgium eat it for breakfast or as a snack in the afternoon sometimes we put some butter on the slices. The Dutch also know it but call it "Ontbijtkoek". People never make it themsselves but buy it storemade. It is a very old kind of "bread". Bread nor cake, nor cookie is the exact word for it. It is something in between all these things.
On the left you see a glass with a layer of a white coconut pudding, a layer of stewed berries and topped with crumbles of "speculaas"
Speculaas is a sort of gingerbread cookie but it has more cinnamon in it then ginger. It is a typical Belgian / Dutch spicy cookie that is mostly baked in winter for the holidays but is also a much loved cookie that you can buy the whole year round.
The last one is a simple skewer with fresh fruit and you serve warm chocolate sauce with it to dip the fruit in.
Enjoy!




















Another buy I am very pleased about it this nickle plated samovar. I tought it would be a fun thing to have. I had no idea it was plugged for electricity when I bought it. I only saw this when I opened it at home to see that the electric cable was with it.
With my new shabby chic style interior I hated the fact that the cats where eating from an ugly plastic container. I already changed their drinking bowl from plastic to an old porcelain lion head bowl I had lying in the cellar and now I found another lionhead Bavaria porcelain terrine to do there kibbles in.
Wanneer ik weer eens bij Troc was dacht ik de koop van m'n leven gezien te hebben. Deze prachtige vaas van het merk Luxval stond er en ze kostte maar 4 euro.










