Gourmelita

This post will be brief and sweet. This sheet cake is one of the easiest apple desserts you can make, after an apple crumble. It's made with olive oil and lots of apples and nuts, keeping it spectacularly crumbly and moist at the same time! I have had it here-on the blog-in Greek for ages, but since I have been making it really often this time of year-kids love it, I love it- I finally dedicated some time to reshooting photos of it, so that I can give you the English version. The cake itself is very versatile: you can add raisins or cranberries, swap the almonds with any other nut you like and 'play' with the sugar contained, removing some Demerara and adding some white crystallised sugar to make it lighter in texture. The only 'hassle' in making it, is roasting the almonds/nuts for a few minutes, and grinding them. A hassle well worth it and totally forgotten about when you are enjoying a warm piece of this fragrant cake with a spoonful of custard on it! Oth...

Here in London, the Christmas spirit is evident really early on! It’s mid November and all the Christmas lights have gone on, the store displays are marvelous in their Christmas decorations, and the mood for Christmas has started to set in since October. This Christmassy baklava just popped up on my Facebook  memories, and remembering it just made me drool! I contemplated remaking it-the photos are circa 2015-and reposting in English, but honestly, I also remembered that I had eaten such a huge quantity the last time I made it, that I decided that 2015 iPhone photos were just fine! So here goes, this is my version of baklava after I saw a recipe in a British magazine, that suggested a chestnut only baklava. I decided to add some ingredients along the way-mostly what I had in hand at the moment-and voila: a chestnut, apple, cranberry, cinnamon, cardamom and orange, buttery, syrupy and crunchy baklava. The first bite alone will make you ‘feel’ Christmassy i...