Blueberry Coffee Cake

On Sunday morning, I took a trip to the local farmers market and bought fresh blueberries. There is nothing better than the goodness of locally grown fresh fruit, especially when it is incorporated in a classic style coffee cake. This all butter cake, along with a bit of cinnamon and nutmeg, and brown sugar topping makes for a great tea time snack.

Strawberry blueberry pie

Last night I experimented with some left over fresh blueberries and strawberries and created this pie. This is perhaps once of the most juiciest pies I ever made. My family sure enjoyed this one. It was like a slice of summer.

Peach Pie

Peach pie. This is another family favourite this time of year, when ripe sweet Niagara peaches are in season. There is nothing better than fresh fruit filling, with a hint of vanilla wrapped between flaky shortcrust pastry.

Pain de bluettes

I was in an interesting dilemma. What to do with tons of left over pastry cream from the Fresh fruit tartlets and an abundance of fresh blueberries in the house. Pain de bluetttes or blueberry buns, is an off take of pain de raisin. This is made with buttery croissaint dough, lined with pastry cream and dotted with fresh blue berries as opposed to raisins. The smell from the oven really sent a beautiful arouma in the air. Fresh cream and berries. Then to top it off, these buns were glazed with apricot jam to give it a nice shine.