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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.

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…

Crustless quiche with pea, mint and feta cheese - easy tasty recipe using shortcrust pastry for spring summer picnics and packed lunches

Crustless Quiche with Pea, Mint, Feta

Here’s an easy way to get your quiche fix without too much stodgy pastry. This crustless quiche recipe p…

Chocolate Macarons with Chocolate Ganache

Chocolate macarons

Chocolate Macarons are a French patisserie classic. This version filled with dark chocolate ganache for the ul…

Garlic mushroom couscous in Redmond Multicooker finished recipe at Maisoncupcake.com

Garlic mushroom couscous with hazelnuts

An easy mushroom couscous dish you can make in under thirty minutes to batch cook for parties, family meals or…

How to make Chocolate Blackberry Charlotte Dessert easy showstopper bombe with quark mousse See step by step photos at MaisonCupcake.com

Chocolate Blackberry Charlotte Cake

If you can melt chocolate you can make this chocolate blackberry charlotte cake. It’s the ultimate easy…

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Five Ingredient Fish Pie Family Food Hack - you won't believe how easy this fish pie is to make from a quick five minute assembly of several frozen food products - an easy time saving idea for family meal planning that will leave you hands free whilst you help with the kids homework!

Fish Pie with Freezer Ingredients

Fish pie that's easy to assemble with just five ingredients. This … [Read ...] about Fish Pie with Freezer Ingredients

Mint Chocolate Puddings with After Eight - served in glass ramekins set inside larger white dish. A spoon is dipped into the gooey melting centre.

Mint Chocolate Puddings with After Eight

Who doesn't like to feel a little gooey inside? These mint chocolate … [Read ...] about Mint Chocolate Puddings with After Eight

Golden bread and butter pudding in glass dish and in soft focus background are shown a blue and white striped jug and some stacked pastel pink and blue bowls.

Marmalade Bread and Butter Pudding

Marmalade bread and butter pudding isn't just for Paddington, it's an … [Read ...] about Marmalade Bread and Butter Pudding

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Spicy Pork Pancakes with Rhubarb Recipe

Spicy Pork Pancakes With Rhubarb

This delicious savoury mince filling tastes fantastic in Spicy Pork … [Read More...] about Spicy Pork Pancakes With Rhubarb

Casserole dish of richly coloured leftover lamb curry with mushrooms.

Leftover Lamb Curry with Mushrooms

Using up cooked meat and vegetables to make leftover lamb curry comes … [Read More...] about Leftover Lamb Curry with Mushrooms

Leftover Chicken Noodle Salad with Sesame Seeds and hoisin sauce dressing

Leftover Chicken Noodle Salad with Sesame Seeds

Using up leftover chicken in a cold noodle salad is a quick, healthy … [Read More...] about Leftover Chicken Noodle Salad with Sesame Seeds

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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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