If you regularly search the web for new ideas, you do not miss these beautiful and colorful gourmet bites. This is a moment that I wanted to test these original apple tarts, I was just waiting to have red apples.

8 tarts:
2-3 red apples 
1 roll of puff pastry 
1 fillet of lemon juice 
1 tablespoon jam or fruit jelly 
powdered sugar

garnish: 
apple sauce (about 80 g) 
or almond cream (1 egg, 35 g of soft butter, 35 g sugar and 35 grams of almond powder and possibly a drop of almond extract)

preparation of the almond cream: Put the softened butter cut into small plots in a bowl.Add sugar and mix well. Then add egg, mix and add the almond powder. Mix well to obtain a smooth cream.

Wash the apples. Remove the core with a évidoir apples. Cut apples in half and cut thin slices. 
Arrange apple slices in a pan, sprinkle with lemon juice net and cover with water. Heat about 3 minutes. The apples should be soft but not reduced sauce. 
Drain the potatoes and rinse under cold water to cool. Drain again and set aside. 
Roll out the puff pastry or place if it's a ready paste. 
Cut strips 2-3 cm wide in the dough (9-10 bands) 
Spread a little applesauce or almond cream on each strip and deposit the apple slices on the strips (skin side above) by the slightly protruding from the dough. Wrap carefully place the strips on themselves if need maintaining the apple slices so they do not slip. 
Place each "rose" and formed into greased muffin tin or silicon and bake at 180 degrees (preheated oven) for 30 to 40 minutes. After 20 minutes of baking baste the apples with jam or jelly diluted in a little water. 
Effectively monitor the color of the apples and cover with a sheet of baking paper if they color too. 
Turn once and cooled sprinkle with icing sugar veil.

  
 

It's nice and easy to do. Here is a small ideal dessert for any occasion. You can accompany these roses with a scoop of ice cream with vanilla, serve while warm.

So you can garnish your roses with apple sauce, with almond cream or just sprinkle the dough with sugar and cinnamon before depositing the sliced ​​apples. 
You can also put in place a compote or cream of almond marzipan few pieces on the dough (spread almond paste or drop little squares of almond paste) before rolling the dough.

I realized roses 7 or 8 with a roll of puff pastry trade (round) I used both ends to make one pink. 
On the recipes found on the net, the dough is generally doubled and folded in two, I intentionally left simple not make too much dough thickness and let the apple taste to dessert. 
to have a good taste made, it should not be too much dough and apples should be cooked without be dry.

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It is the birthday period in the chocolate family, October offers us three opportunities to blow the candles ...

This is chocolator junior who started the festivities and as every year I rack my head to make him a beautiful cake. This year I had little time (if at all) and I got taken a little late I admit. On the day I started to make her cake and I saw that I was missing the cream, essential for chocolate ganache makes up the cake in question. Mr. chocolate is being proposed to go fast look for before closing shops (yes I got taken very late ...) it is at full party for our big boy can have a beautiful cake. Did not count on chocolate gentleman who reported the blunder evaporated milk instead of cream (same layout, same color he told me ....) I had this day abandon the planned cake and improvise a quick cake to plant candles chocolator junior in anything other than bread ... 
Since I had a good stock of evaporated milk I tried a cake and eventually all the world has enjoyed.

for a 20 cm x square cake 20 cm : 
200 g chocolate 
20 cl evaporated milk 
100 g of sugar (but you can put 150 g) 
4 medium eggs 
100 g flour 
1 teaspoon baking powder 
25 ml oil 
1 pinch salt

To melt chocolate. Add the evaporated milk and eggs and a pinch of salt. Mix well. Add sugar, flour and baking powder. Add the oil and mix to make smooth paste.

Pour into a greased dish or individual molds. 
I used for my part the square pan "tablet" Demarle (but a mold lined with parchment paper will be fine too) 
Bake at 180 degrees (preheated oven) for 20 to 25 minutes (20 minutes were enough for me) 
If you are using individual molds cook 15 minutes less time will be suitable. 
Test for doneness with the blade of a knife should come out of the cake without a trace.
Turn the cake a once it is cold.

verdict: it is soft, very chocolatey. If you like sweet cakes add 50 g of sugar per 100 g initially planned. 
I served cut into large slices. It is quite brittle, do not cook it in a loaf pan, it would be too difficult to cut. 
Mr. chocolate would have tasted good with custard ... 
You can add nuts (hazelnut powder or crushed nuts , almonds, grated coconut) or white chocolate chips or milk.

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Today no recipe, but just a small share of a more personal moment ... 
If you follow the adventures of gourmet chocolate family, you have often heard or rather read our adventures with our chickens and foxes that had the eat. 
it has been three years that we have chickens and we finally found the solution to that foxes do we fly over during the day: leave them locked in a hyper hyper protected enclosure, it is also more a pen, it is a real bunker! 
Our chickens can no longer frolic freely in the garden, it's a shame but it was the only solution to enable us to keep more than a week!

Reassured by this, we can hear with more fun and yelping foxes pass under our windows and see them sneak into the garden run the full moon. 
I can tell you that a couple of fox who plays in the snow right before your eyes is a truly magical moment. We never managed to immortalize these moments to date. 
For two nights we installed a device that triggers own photos with any visitors movements. 
The first night we photographed a nice pie ... ! and that night, just after the photo of the big cat of the neighbor who came to taste the bait we had left, finally, the fox showed his nose .... 
4 am, 6th in the garden, and a beautiful fox just taste the chicken carcass left there. He leaves with elsewhere as well as the egg left in bait. He stayed 20 minutes right under our window. That night we did not hear yelp, it was full up!

  

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Today a heart stroke recipe. This pizza is a success for me, I really loved this fragrant and colorful garnish.

I know the salmon goes well with spinach and spinach go well with goat cheese, so why not combine three flavors in a small pizza house?

4 people : dough (recipe Thermomix TM5) 400 g flour 220 g of warm water 1 teaspoon caster sugar 1 teaspoon salt 20 g of fresh yeast or baking powder dehydrated baker 30 g olive oil

garnish : 
4-8 tablespoons of thick crème fraîche 
400 g smoked salmon 
some goat cheese slices (3/4 of a log or log 1) 
4 handfuls fresh spinach

Put the water, sugar and yeast in the bowl and mix on speed 2 for 20 seconds. Add the flour, olive oil and salt. Put the jam function and knead for 2 minutes. 
Place dough in a greased bowl and cover with a clean cloth. Let rise for 1 hour.

Then roll out the dough quite thinly, dividing it into 4 portions. 
Top each serving with one or two tablespoons of sour cream (cream spread with back of a spoon, leaving a strip at the edge without cream) 
Divide the strips of smoked salmon on cream and put the leaves of fresh and raw spinach. Cut the goat cheese into small slices and place slices on the pizza. 
Bake for 15 to 25 minutes depending on the size of the pizza. The dough should be cooked and golden. 
Hot Tasting.

Mr. Chocolate and girls moderately liked chocolator junior also liked but preferred pizza with tomato sauce. I have really enjoyed it. This small pizza will come back very often on my plate.

Variation: do not put salmon but add pine nuts, you'll have a tasty vegetarian recipe. Add a clove of garlic or possibly a minced shallot. 

Use of smoked trout instead of salmon 
for even more indulgence, add the grated cheese.

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Today I propose a simple recipe, very tasty, quick to do if they have a small pot of caramel with salted butter ready (you can do it in advance is not complicated and it ' is fast too)

I still had a bit of salted butter caramel house and as the consistency was too fluid to miss chocolate, she sulked a bit. Not wanting to finish my pot alone, I recycled soft ones.

12 mini soft : 
2 eggs 
75g caster sugar 
45g butter 
125g flour 
1 teaspoon baking powder 
a little pot of caramel with salted butter

recipe salted butter caramel : 
200 g sugar 
65 g butter half salt 
20 cl cream

Prepare the caramel with salted butter
Use two pans, one big enough. 
Heat the cream in the smallest and make a dry caramel in the other (pour the sugar, although the spread for it covers the entire bottom of the saucepan and melt the sugar until it turns amber) 
do not stir the sugar in the pan until it is not turned into caramel. 
When the caramel is ready, pour the hot cream being careful splash, the mixture foams much. Stir well and add the butter cut in pieces. 
Stir over low heat until the mixture is well blended (caramel will tend to form pieces that will melt at this stage) 
When the mixture is smooth, cook on sweet, while continuing to stir for about 3 minutes. 
Let cool before using.

Prepare soft : 
In a bowl, whisk eggs with sugar. Add flour and baking powder teaspoon. Melt butter and add to the dough. Mix well. 
Pour a teaspoon of mixture into small molds silicone or greased muffin cups and lined with parchment paper. Post tablespoon domed coffee caramel salted butter and cover with dough. 
Fill all the molds and bake at 180 degrees (preheated oven) for 15 minutes.

Let cool before serving.

Verdict: we feel the caramel. The texture is soft. 
These cakes are rich but greedy. 
I made ​​12 mini soft footprints in half spheres Demarle. Do not overfill the molds, cake swell well. 
There are more caramel than necessary. Keep the rest in a cool pot, use it to spread crepes or pancakes.

Variation: you can mix the caramel with salted butter to the dough (so use two tablespoons of caramel.) Cakes will be even more greedy and soft 
You can add potatoes chopped, slivered almonds ... 
You can decorate them with a spiral or zigzag caramel on top

Caramel falls a little deep but if we used these small fluffy returning was the caramel over flowing a bit .... 
They do not, unfortunately, a long shelf life and they are best enjoyed shortly after their completion .

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Even a small soup recipe, but I must say that I love soups and this is in addition quite season! 
The soup of the day is a small velvety soft and very easy to base spinach. I added a zucchini and a carrot for the texture. I have intentionally omitted to put potatoes to keep the principle of a flat without starch, nothing prevents you to put a little more potato for consistency.

For 3 people : 
300 g of fresh spinach and raw 
1 carrot (100 g) 
1 courgette 
300 g water 
salt and pepper In Thermomix: Wash the spinach and mix 10 seconds speed 5. Add the zucchini, cut into large cubes well washed and unpeeled (remove hard parts before)Add the carrot, peeled and cut into chunks. Pour 300 g of water and bake at 100 ° for 15 minutes speed 2. at the end of cooking, add salt and pepper and mix speed 10 for 20 seconds (hold the measuring cup with your hand protected by a glove to avoid splashing) gradually increase the speed.

Without thermomix: 
Wash the spinach and place in a saucepan with 3/4 liter of water. Add the zucchini, cut into large cubes, well washed and unpeeled (remove hard parts before) 
Add the peeled and cut into chunks carrot. 
Cook for 20 minutes. 
At the end of cooking, add salt and pepper. Remove half of the water (the book) mixer and gradually add water set aside until the desired consistency.

I found this very velvety soft. Spinach well we feel and texture is really silky. 
You can enhance the flavor of this soup by adding vegetable stock into the water. You can add an onion, a little cream or Boursin.

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Today a heart stroke recipe. This pizza is a success for me, I really loved this fragrant and colorful garnish.

I know the salmon goes well with spinach and spinach go well with goat cheese, so why not combine three flavors in a small pizza house?

4 people : dough (recipe Thermomix TM5) 400 g flour 220 g of warm water 1 teaspoon caster sugar 1 teaspoon salt 20 g of fresh yeast or baking powder dehydrated baker 30 g olive oil

garnish : 
4-8 tablespoons of thick crème fraîche 
400 g smoked salmon 
some goat cheese slices (3/4 of a log or log 1) 
4 handfuls fresh spinach

Put the water, sugar and yeast in the bowl and mix on speed 2 for 20 seconds. Add the flour, olive oil and salt. Put the jam function and knead for 2 minutes. 
Place dough in a greased bowl and cover with a clean cloth. Let rise for 1 hour.

Then roll out the dough quite thinly, dividing it into 4 portions. 
Top each serving with one or two tablespoons of sour cream (cream spread with back of a spoon, leaving a strip at the edge without cream) 
Divide the strips of smoked salmon on cream and put the leaves of fresh and raw spinach. Cut the goat cheese into small slices and place slices on the pizza. 
Bake for 15 to 25 minutes depending on the size of the pizza. The dough should be cooked and golden. 
Hot Tasting.

Mr. Chocolate and girls moderately liked chocolator junior also liked but preferred pizza with tomato sauce. I have really enjoyed it. This small pizza will come back very often on my plate.

Variation: do not put salmon but add pine nuts, you'll have a tasty vegetarian recipe. Add a clove of garlic or possibly a minced shallot. 

Use of smoked trout instead of salmon 
for even more indulgence, add the grated cheese.

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