5 Summer Dessert Recipes

Here are 5 Summer dessert recipes, from nectarine layer cake to apricot tart and raspberry cupcakes. You can also get ready to bake French desserts such as Tarte Tropézienne or a Fraisier !

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Nougat Cream Cookie Slices

Nougat cream cookies slices are made with a shortbread cookie base, nougat cream and a white chocolate drizzle.

Lire la recette des barres biscuitées à la crème de nougat en Français

I have a giant jar of nougat cream in the pantry. That giant jar of nougat cream will expire soon, so I need to use it up. I looked up recipes online to try and find a way to use nougat cream in a recipe, unfortunately, every dessert recipe either uses actual nougat or they're recipes to make nougat cream (and I already have it so those recipes are useless to me.)

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Fraisier (French Strawberry Cake)

Fraisier is a French strawberry cake : a génoise (white cake) is filled with crème mousseline and fresh strawberries. This is a classic French dessert.

Lire la recette du fraisier en Français

Fraisier is a fancy French word for strawberry cake. If you want to know how to pronounce it, go : fray zee ey. There, you can now say fraisier ;)

Strawberry cake (this version, filled with cream and fresh strawberries) has been one of my favorite desserts ever since I was a little one. Most birthday cake pictures from my first ten years on this planet are of fraisiers. I think it's because it combines a lot of my favorite things when it comes to desserts : strawberries, cake, and cream. A lot of cream.

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Chocolate Banana Mini Cakes

This recipe for moist chocolate banana mini cakes is the perfect way to use up ripe bananas.

After chocolate chip banana cookies, here come chocolate banana mini cakes. I'm just thinking about those poor ripe bananas, you know. I want you to use them up, and making these chocolate banana cakes is the perfect way to do just that.
Chocolate and banana is a well-known flavor pairing, and these mini cakes showcase just how amazing a pairing it is. You could also use a muffin pan to make these chocolate banana cakes.
These chocolate banana mini cakes stay soft and moist, even after a couple days left on the kitchen counter.


Let me know in the comments if you make these chocolate banana mini cakes ! You can also share a picture on Instagram by tagging @acupofsprinkles and using the hashtag #acupofsprinkles !

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Here's the recipe for chocolate banana mini cakes :

Chocolate Banana Mini Cakes
by A Cup Of Sprinkles
Adapted from Marsha’s Baking Addiction

This recipe for moist chocolate banana mini cakes is the perfect way to use up ripe bananas.

Cook time : 20 to 25 minutes
6 mini cakes

Ingredients :
85g of flour
25g of cocoa powder
75g of sugar
1 tsp of baking powder
1/4 tsp of baking soda
1/8 tsp of salt
1 ripe banana, mashed
120g of plain yogurt
1 small egg
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
1 tsp of vanilla extract

Instructions :

Preheat the oven.

Whisk together the dry ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder and baking soda), and set aside.

In another bowl, mix the banana, yogurt, egg, oil and vanilla extract.

Mix in the dry ingredients.

Grease (and/or line with baking paper) a mini loaf pan and divide the batter evenly (about ¾ full). Bake for 20 to 25 minutes (150°C/180°C), until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out dry.

Let cool for a few minutes before taking the chocolate banana mini cakes out of the pan.

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Top 5 Cookie Recipes

Here are the blog's five most popular ccookies recipes ! From snickerdoodles to almond sablés, check out these easy cookie recipes.

Here's a little round-up of the five most popular cookie recipes on the blog ! Cookies and bars recipes are what I've posted about the most on this little blog, with the most recent cookie recipe being these chocolate chip banana cookies, and the most recent bars recipe was this one for Easter chocolate cookie bars.

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Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies

What could be better than chocolate chip cookies you ask ? Chocolate chip cookies full of banana flavor ! These banana chocolate chip cookies are perfect as a quick and easy snack.

Lire la recette des cookies banane pépites de chocolat en Français

Maybe I should've named this blog A Cup of Cookies. I do seem to share a lot more cookie recipes than recipes that involve sprinkles, after all. It's just that when it comes to baking, cookies are one of my favorite things to whip up. If I had to list my favorite things in baking, sprinkles and cookies would have to share the first spot. But let's talk about these chocolate chip banana cookies now.
This is another recipe I've used for years. I've made these banana cookies several times to get the perfect (for me anyway) recipe. I wouldn't even be able to tell you which recipe I used to make them in the first place, first because it's been so long I've forgotten, and second because I've changed ingredient measurements.
This is the perfect recipe to make if you want to use up that ripe banana that's been seating on the counter for a week. Now, I call these cookies chocolate chip banana cookies, but I do use chocolate chunks. I've said before in this best ever chocolate chip cookies recipe post that I cut up a block of chocolate to get chunks, because it's cheaper and it's got a way better chocolate to cookie bite ratio ;) You can obviously use either.
Now, don't expect crispy cookies. These banana cookies have a bit of a cake-like texture, and they'll stay soft and moist even after a couple days on the counter. :)


Let me know in the comments if you make these chocolate chip banana cookies ! You can also share a picture on Instagram by tagging @acupofsprinkles and using the hashtag #acupofsprinkles !

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Here's how to make chocolate chip banana cookies :

CHOCOLATE CHIP BANANA COOKIES
by A Cup Of Sprinkles

What could be better than chocolate chip cookies you ask ? Chocolate chip cookies full of banana flavor ! These banana chocolate chip cookies are perfect as a quick and easy snack.

Cook time : 10 minutes
10-12 cookies

Ingredients :
180g of flour
1/8 tsp of salt
1 tsp of baking powder
75g of butter, softened
120g of light brown sugar
1 ripe banana, mashed
1 egg
1 tsp of vanilla extract
100g of chocolate chips

Instructions :

Preheat the oven.

Whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder. Set aside.

In an another bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Mix in the egg, mashed banana, and the vanilla extract.

Add in the dry ingredients and chocolate chip. Mix until everything is incorporated.

Using spoons or an ice cream scoop, form cookie dough balls on a baking paper covered baking sheet, making sure to space them out as the cookies will spread when baking.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes (150°C/180°C), until the edges are a golden color.

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Easy French Apple Tart

Make an easy French tart with fresh apples and applesauce.

I'm not even sure this should count as a recipe. I mean, want to know how to make an easy French apple tart ? Here's what you should do : get a pie crust (I used a puff pastry crust but you can use whichever you want), pour some applesauce in your pie crust and cover with apple slices. Bake for about 40 minutes. There. You have a French apple tart. I'm not sure what else there is to say, really.

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My Favorite Cake Recipe

This is my favorite cake recipe. It only requires four ingredients (plus flavoring of your choice) and it is perfect for layer cakes !

I’ve shared this cake recipe before, with this Easter cake, or this nectarine layer cake, and I thought it was time it had its own post.
You see, I’ve used this cake recipe for four years now. It’s my go-to whenever I have to make a layer cake for a birthday or another special occasion (see this other Easter cake).

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