Blueberry Coconut Friands(Glutenfree)

Happy Mother's Day to all of you ! Hope you all had the most wonderful time with your mothers and your babies... As for us, we had a lovely time with our family friends in the playground, playing with the  boys and eating pizzas for lunch and since all celebrations call for a cake, I baked these Blueberry Coconut Friands later in the afternoon  and enjoyed them for tea... Wish I had thought of baking them earlier for they would have been the perfect treat for our picnic of sorts... 

Chocochip Cherry 'n Coke Muffins

Does it ever happen to you that you see a recipe, pin it and then cannot get it out of your head until you have tried it. It happens to me all the time... specially when I see something as awesome as a hand-written muffin recipe from a different era .. Something with ICE_CREAM and a promise of goodness in it. Something like these muffins from Four Mars.. One Venus that scream and beg to be baked right away... So I tweaked Jen's grandmother's Quick Blueberry muffin recipe a bit to make these Chocochip Cherry n' Coke muffins for breakfast on Sunday...

I had read about coke doing wonders to the texture of cakes before and on Sunday experienced it first hand. Even with their share of whole wheat flour, these muffins turned out so soft and fluffy. They were wonderful. Little boy enjoyed them too and declared that he likes cherry muffins.

The texture became a little dense the next day... but even then they tasted good. In fact I thought like most whole wheat cakes, they tasted better the following day. I had glazed half of the batch with a coke-cocoa glaze and my husband liked the glazed ones, little boy and  and I however preferred ours unglazed ones. We were happy with the chocolate-cherry combo and did not care much for the added sugar.....

Chocolate Financer

Its 5th Feb... World Nutella Day.. and I had a real goey-Nutella-y recipe in mind. So dreamily I went to the kitchen yesterday... thinking of all the goey deliciousness that was waiting for and Oh My... what do I see.. that jar of Nutella has been almost spooned clean.  I was almost in tears... It might have taken me a few minutes to get over that initial frustration ... and then I thought of making these Financier. Not Nutella Financier exactly but DELICIOUS none the less.

This recipe is from Around the French Table. One of Paris's most admired chocolatiers, Jean Paul Hévin gave this recipe to Dorie Greenspan. I did not change a thing about it. However a teaspoon of orange zest might have been a good idea so I added that in the recipe. Orange zest or otherwise these Chocolate Financiers are what perfection tastes to chocolate lovers. So bake some right away and indulge....