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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.

Chocolate Cherry Yogurt Cake

If you think this chocolate cherry yogurt cake looks too naughty to eat, perhaps I can twist your arm by telli…

Plum and Almond Galettes

Plum and Almond Galettes

Puff pastry, I’m not sure whether to be ashamed to admit, is not something I’ve made from scratch…

Close up of Toffee Apple Tart showing apple slices, toffee sauce, chopped nuts

Toffee Apple Tart

Here's a sticky gooey apple tart with caramel sauce and walnut pastry that's easy to make and looks worthy of…

Baby Pepper Quiche with Sundried Tomato

Easy lunch dish suggestions each made with Maille mustard.

Pear and Caramel Cake (Gluten Free)

Pears are my ultimate autumn fruit. My dad used to have a pear tree at the top of his garden and every autumn…

White Chocolate Raspberry Cake - No Butter Yogurt Traybake

White Chocolate Raspberry Cake – No Butter Yogurt Traybake

This no butter white chocolate raspberry cake is based on a French yogurt cake and is easy to whip up at short…

Apricot Tart with Puff Pastry

Apricot Tart with Honey

Believe it or not, this recipe was inspired by a totally different savoury recipe, Charlotte Pike’s lemo…

Lemon Courgette Pesto Tart using Puff Pastry

Lemon Courgette Pesto Tart

I’m trying hard to only put DSLR photos on this site whilst blogging family meals that were instagrammed…

Cherry Meringue Pie

Cherry Meringue Pie

Why is it always lemon meringue pie? Don’t get me wrong, I love lemon meringue pie to bits. But we seem…

Fast Raspberry Tart with Cheats’ Crème Patissière

I have raspberries coming out my ears right now. My garden has an overgrown raspberry bush (offcuts from my fo…

Coffee and Walnut Eclairs

Eclairs, some people will have you, are the new cupcake. This is of course nonsense, eclairs have a short shel…

Quark Chocolate Mousse (Egg Free)

Quark Chocolate Mousse (Egg Free)

Usually making chocolate mousse involves folding whisked egg whites into a chocolatey custard type mix and if…

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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

Cheesy Baked Speltotto (Spelt Risotto)

Speltotto is a type of risotto made from spelt grain rather than rice. … [Read ...] about Cheesy Baked Speltotto (Spelt Risotto)

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 ...] about Leftover Lamb Curry with Mushrooms

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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

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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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