Devilish chocolate and salted caramel cake

Last weekend we tried a recipe from Marmiton website - the Gateau au chocolat et au caramel salé. It was so moist and you could taste a well balanced mixture of chocolate, caramel and salt. A delicious cake that melts in the mouth and so terrible for the diet!!!! Of course it reminded us of "caramel au beurre salé" - salted caramel recipes from Brittany.

Here's the recipe, very simple one that I'm translating here from the original website.

Ingredients
200g dark chocolate
180g sugar
150g salted butter
4 eggs

Note: except for the egg whites, all these mixing and beating steps are done manually with a whip or spoon.
Make a caramel with the sugar and a tablespoon of water.
When it's done, take the pan from the heat, add salted butter and mix until the caramel becomes liquid.
Add the chocolate that you have cut into pieces beforehand. Mix well
Separate the egg white and yolk and beat the whites to stiff
Add one egg yolk at a time to the chocolate mixture and mix
Incorporate gently the beaten whites to the chocolate mixture
Put in a greased mould and cook in a preheated oven for 25 minutes, 180 degrees
Enjoy while it's warm...miam...

our pictures before eating a very unreasonable share of the cake:

Sablé au Citron

Yesterday our boulangerie had this new Sablé au Citron that we decided to try. It was perfect with just enough lemon but not too acid and the crust was crumbly and not too sweet. It's price 1.70 euro stands in between the "cakes" which range around 2.50 euros and the croissants, pain au chocolat which are around 1,35. The baguette at my boulangerie costs 90 cents.

Cinnamon rolls... c'est trop bon!

We love cinnamon rolls which we discovered during our holidays in the USA. There's not so much cakes with cinnamon here in France. Since we're unfortunately not going to the US so soon (and I'm sad about that), well we had to try our own cinnamon rolls from a recipe we found online on a French website but I can't recall which one! Actually I did not do any glazing to avoid too much sugar.
Here's a photo... they were so good as you eat them warm from the oven!

Blueberry Muffins

My daughter made these blueberry muffins and they tasted so delicious!!! She used frozen blueberries from our Picard shop.

Mauritian cakes

Since I'm going through my photos, let me show some of the cakes that we enjoy eating while in Mauritius... my daughter brought some (well the less perishable ones) when she came back from  her holidays.

Mauritius being a multicultural country, we enjoy food from various communities - Chinese, Indian, European etc. And it's great to live in such a country.

We have the napolitaine which is a shortbread biscuit recipe, it's composed of two round shaped biscuits that are stuck together with some red jelly and coated with pink frosting. Well one of them suffered during the trip. She also managed to bring 3 mangoes and a little bag of litchis. I can't describe the delicious smell of the litchis when we opened the paper bag it was in. And it tasted real good too, nothing compared to those we buy at the supermarket!

And  here's some Indian sweets, we call it milk cakes ("gato di lait" in creole)

The moolkoo is a salty crisp made of chickpea flour (I guess). On the top right side of the picture you can see "gato zoreilles" - ear cake - which is in the form of an ear obviously and is sweet and salty at the same time.

Galette des Rois, Epiphany

We love the Galette des Rois! Normally on the occasion of Epiphany people will share this delicious puff pastry filled with frangipane in which a bean or a porcelain figurine is hidden. 
Guess who popped out of our Galette des Rois this year!!!!! Yes Homer Simpson himself... In our boulangeries here in France, the Galette des Rois is sold as from early December till right in the middle of January.
Besides the traditional frangipane galette, one can also buy apple or pear and chocolate galettes and other varieties as well. We much prefer the frangipane one. 

Since I didn't take a photo of the Galette itself, here's a link to France Monthly magazine page for the Galette recipe.