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French Inspired Recipes

A collection of French-inspired recipes for home cooks. Having travelled to France over 70 times, French cooking techniques and flavours often come home with me.

These French-style dishes and pastries use accessible ingredients and are designed to be easy to cook in your own kitchen.

Apple Pound Cake with Pine Nuts in striped cornish blue bowls with custard

Apple Pound Cake With Pine Nuts

The Classic Recipe – Version Using Up Old Apples For a quick easy dessert you can throw in the oven at s…

Bright yellow mayonnaise with flecks of dill

Dill Mayonnaise with Rapeseed Oil

This homemade dill mayonnaise gets its bright yellow colour by using golden rapeseed oil. It looks a lot like…

Leek and potato soup topped with croutons in white bowls

Easy Leek and Potato Soup – Inspired by Classic French Vichyssoise

For weeks when I wasn’t just throwing fridge bottom veg into the pot, this easy leek and potato soup was…

banoffee bread and butter pudding with banana and dulce de leche baked in dish

Banoffee Bread and Butter Pudding – No-Waste Rich Comfort Dessert

Use Up Leftover Bread and Overripe Bananas in This Easy “Pain Perdu” Style Baked Pudding. A twist…

Oven dish with three chicken supreme pieces with lemon slices - portrait layout

Microwave Chicken Supreme with Lemon

You can microwave chicken supreme pieces in around 30 minutes including prep time. Cooking chicken supreme joi…

Mini Salmon Filo Quiches

Mini Salmon Filo Quiches – Lighter Way to Enjoy Pastry

These salmon filo quiches are a great way to eat pies and tarts without the heaviness of shortcrust pastry. Th…

Duchess Potatoes with Sun-Dried Tomatoes - Piped Swirls of Golden Potato on a baking tray

Duchess Potatoes with Sun-Dried Tomatoes — Elegant Gourmet Side

Elevate your dinner with these French-style duchess potatoes, piped swirls of mashed potato adding a touch of…

Ultimate Salad Niçoise - The Mediterranean Classic featuring tuna, olives, capers, anchovy, boiled egg, tomatoes, salad leaves and basil

Ultimate Salad Niçoise – The Mediterranean Classic

My Ultimate Salad Niçoise with tuna, olives, eggs and anchovies: I’ve been obsessed with this classic Fr…

Cheats’ Raspberry Tart

The raspberries are coming. All the wet weather has made our raspberry bush – which had been aggressivel…

Simple but tasty portobello mushroom puff pastry tarts recipe with black olive tapenade - brilliant savoury pastry for picnics, packed lunches or light suppers

Portobello Mushroom Tarts

These tasty portobello mushroom puff pastry tarts only need five ingredients, around 30 minutes to make and ar…

Easy chocolate ganache dessert recipe with rhubarb by Paul A Young

Easy Chocolate Ganache Dessert with Paul A Young

Just a few weeks after my previous visit to Le Cordon Bleu London making Iced Coffee Souffles, it was back aga…

Iced Coffee Souffles Cordon Bleu Recipe

Iced Coffee Souffles Dessert with Cordon Bleu London

These miniature iced coffee soufflés are a light mousse like dessert finished with a hand piped chocolate feat…

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Vegetable Biryani with Cauliflower and Chickpeas (Vegan)

Vegetable Biryani with Cauliflower & Chickpeas

A quick easy vegetable biryani recipe packed with vegetables including … [Read ...] about Vegetable Biryani with Cauliflower & Chickpeas

Lemon Macarons with Rosemary recipe - yellow macarons stacked in piles

Lemon Macarons with Rosemary – Fresh Spring Flavours

I made these Lemon Macarons with Rosemary in honour of my mother. … [Read ...] about Lemon Macarons with Rosemary – Fresh Spring Flavours

Slice and bake lemon cookies with lemon icing - so easy to make - keep the dough in the fridge or freezer and bake a few at a time. Decorated with instant royal icing flavoured with lemon juice

Slice and Bake Lemon Cookies

Slice and bake cookies are super to have on standby for a freshly … [Read ...] about Slice and Bake Lemon Cookies

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Apple Pound Cake with Pine Nuts in striped cornish blue bowls with custard

Apple Pound Cake With Pine Nuts

The Classic Recipe - Version Using Up Old Apples For a quick easy … [Read More...] about Apple Pound Cake With Pine Nuts

Bright yellow mayonnaise with flecks of dill

Dill Mayonnaise with Rapeseed Oil

This homemade dill mayonnaise gets its bright yellow colour by using … [Read More...] about Dill Mayonnaise with Rapeseed Oil

Rouen Shopping Street with Gros-Horlogue decorative clock, Normandy, France

Rouen City Break: Weekend Itinerary

Normandy's Compact City is Full of Surprises Why isn’t a Rouen city … [Read More...] about Rouen City Break: Weekend Itinerary

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I’m Sarah, a recipe writer sharing thrifty everyday dinners with a touch of French inspiration. I founded Maison Cupcake in 2009 and love creating dishes that are affordable, comforting and achievable. Thanks for visiting!

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