Cannelle et Vanille is one of my favorite blogs out there. It’s written by Aran and wonderfully styled, photographed and curated. She has a true artist’s sensibility and I never walk away from her blog without feeling totally amazed and absolutely incapable!

This is an image from her post “Pear, Hazelnut and Brown Butter Cakes”.

Here is her recipe with suggestions by me!

“Pear, Hazelnut and Brown Butter Cakes
makes a dozen mini bundtcakes
1 cup (125 grams) superfine brown rice flour
1/2 cup (50 grams) hazelnut flour
2 Tbs (20 grams) tapioca starch
1/8 tsp xanthan gum
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
10 Tbs (140 grams) unsalted butter, browned
1/3 cup (85 grams) brown sugar
1/3 cup (100 grams) maple syrup
1 vanilla bean, split and seeded
2 eggs
2 pears, grated
1 cup (200 grams) superfine sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

Place the butter in a small saucepan (Cuisinart Chef’s Classic Saucepan) and cook it until the milk solids start to turn brown on the bottom of the pan and smells nutty. Strain it and let it cool slightly.

In a large bowl (Sur La Table White Stoneware Batter Bowl), whisk together the first seven ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk together the brown sugar, maple syrup, eggs and vanilla bean. Add the cooled brown butter and whisk. Add the liquids to the dry ingredients and whisk until incorporated. Fold in the grated pears.

Divide the batter in the mini bundt pan mold (Wilton Excelle Elite 6-Cup Mini Bundt Pan). Bake at 350F for about 20 minutes.

Let them cool for a couple of minutes in the pan. Remove the cakes from the pan and toss them in the cinnamon sugar.

It’s Summer! Personally, I think sorbets are so much more refreshing than ice cream when it’s hot out. Cannelle et Vanille has this recipe on her site and her beautiful images make me feel cooler already!

The recipe is perfectly simple for those sticky summer afternoons.

Peach Sorbet

500 grams peach puree
75 grams atomized glucose
110 grams water
65 grams sugar
3 grams sorbet stabilizer

Pineapple Sorbet

500 grams pineapple puree
70 grams water
75 grams atomized glucose
60 grams sugar
1.5 grams sorbet stabilizer

Kiwi Sorbet

500 grams kiwi puree
225 grams water
65 grams atomized glucose
120 grams sugar
2 grams sorbet stabilizer

Method is the same for all of them

Start by making the sugar syrup. Place the water and the atomized glucose in a small saucepan . Bring to a simmer. In the meantime, whisk together the sugar and sorbet stabilizer in a separate bowl . When the water comes to a light boil, add the sugar and stabilizer mixture, whisk and bring to a boil. When it starts to boil, pour the syrup into a bowl and let it cool slightly before refrigerating. Refrigerate the sugar syrup overnight.

Add the fruit puree to the sugar syrup, mix really well and churn in ice cream machine . Freeze.