Valentine’s day Baking Session

  Posted on 20 February 2014  by Pauline Gauthier  No comments

A couple of weeks ago, we organised a French Glacé Cherries baking day for bloggers to give them the opportunity to discover new ways of using our lovely cherries.

Cindy demonstrate the jelly cakes

For one day we tasted and baked delicious Valentine’s treats developed and demonstrated by French baker and blogger Cindy Robert from Petit Gâteau and Food for thoughts.

Cindy had created two exclusive treats (soon to be found on our recipe page) : French Glacé Cherry (FGC) Jelly cakes  (a cherry twist on the traditional Jaffa cake) and FGC and Pistachios financiers (also known over here as friands). We had also prepared savoury and sweet recipes to show how versatile FGC are. We tried our favourite FGC chutney with blue cheese and FGC oatcakes, indulged in FGC & chocolate brownies, mini smoothies and mini cheesecakes.

Chutney and oatcakes

Brownies

Mini smoothies

Hands-on masterclass, the bloggers in action!

All bloggers left with a goodie bag, some samples and a small bag of FGC granola.

Needless to say, we had a delicious day (in all senses of the term) and a lot of fun.

Guest included fantastic bloggers including :

Linda from Filledwithlovecupcakes

Caroline from Caroline Makes

Fabienne from Lost in London

Heidi from Pastries with Heidi

Ros from The more than occasional baker

Urvashi from The Botanical Baker

Emilie from Emilondon

Mélodie from Les Falbalas

Aimee from Clones n clowns

Manjiri from Slice off Me

Snejana from Orange Thyme

Delphine from From the Riviera to the Smog

Emma from The Adventures of a London Kiwi

French Glacé Cherry jelly cakes in the making

Coating the layer of cherry compote with chocolate

Cindy makes the French Glacé Cherry compote