THIS IS JUST TO SAY…Plum Tart is a taste treat recreated from my past, a humble childhood treat orginally fashioned from scraps of leftover pastry sprinkled with sugar, baked crisp and topped while still hot from the oven with a spoonful of homemade plum preserves. Close your eyes, take a bite of Plum Tart – a grown up version of little jewel from the kitchen.
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Are you looking for delicious holiday sweet recipe that is no-cook easy, makes a lovely and healthy finish to a holiday meal and that also is a fabulous food gift? Go ask Alice – her novel fruit, nut and spice truffles have been fashioned into delicate little confections – little jewels for the holidays.
What do you get when you cross a coconut cookie with a Snickerdoodle? Answer: A Cocodoodle of course. These little jewels are a great marry of taste, easy to prepare and please even those who are not so nuts about coconut. Bijouxs kicks off holiday baking with Cocodoodles.
Pasadena is not all about Rose Queens and debutantes or Penny loafers and posh hotels. Along the edges, nearing the fringe Bijouxs and The Rippler created an unexpected gem. Inspired by art and culture, the storied past of Pasadena; more underground than Paseo, after hours than high tea, Pop art than prep school -The Crepe Brulee – a confection well loved in the tea salons of Paris transforms to lust worthy in the atelier of Bijouxs – another little jewel from the kitchen.
Madeleines, superstar famous; hanging out with Marcel Proust, always getting tons of press, a sweet little teacake whose name is spoken daily, but like some stars, has always seemed just a little bit fussy in my kitchen. Bijouxs took a little time to get to know sweet madeleine and introduced her to some lavender and honey, revealing a sweet and simple little cake, a real little jewel.
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