Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberries are almost to the end of the season.  Not wanting to miss out eating strawberry shortcake, I hurriedly secure myself some strawberries, whipping cream and fresh eggs.  Those are the essential ingredients for a delicious strawberry shortcake.  I made the genoise the night before and left it overnight after slathering the cake with some syrup.  This will keep the cake soft and moist.
The next day, I whipped up the cream with some homemade strawberry jam and layered it in the middle of the cake then whipped up another batch of cream for covering the outside of cake.  My cake was done.  Nothing beats a slice of this sumptuous cake with a cup of mint tea from my garden.

Apricot tarts

There are days when I just wanted to eat some really refreshing tartlets.  And it just so happen I had some frozen apricots, so, I decided to make some apricot tarts.  This is a mix and match recipe.  Basically, it is pie dough for the shell, custard for the fillings and of course half apricot for the topping.  Just put all together and bake in the oven, we have tartlets.  I glazed them with a little strawberry jam for extra shine...hahaha.  Probably better if I use apricot jam, but I didn't have any.
Anyway, it was not as delicious as I have hope it to be, because the apricot was too sour.  I should have cook the apricot in syrup before using it.  I will try it again next time.  But overall, it is not that difficult to make.  Have a try.

Sables - Butter cookies

I made this a while ago...one of kids' favorites.  They have been bugging me to make it, but I was too lazy to do so.  I got this recipe from American Test Kitchen.  In my opinion, this is one of the best butter cookie recipe available.  Anyway, the recipe is quite simple, but the process of making them is not so straight forward, especially when making the checkered ones and the spiral ones.  But the effort is well worth it when I see the kids' face.  They absolutely love it.
Actually, when I was young, I saw these cookies in a recipe book (probably from one of my grandfather's collections), but I had never tasted them.  I always wanted to try them.  So, there you go...just make it!