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Serve this rich and cheesy tart with bitter winter leaves or steamed greens.

40 fantastique French recipes for Bastille Day (and beyond)

These chic and classique recipes will see you through the French national day and into the Paris Olympics.

Helen Goh’s tartiflette galette.

Tartiflette galette (cheese and potato tart)

Two classic French recipes combine to create this open-faced, cheese-and-potato pie.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Crepes with hazelnut chocolate spread and bananas.
EASY

Crepes with bananas and home-made hazelnut chocolate spread

Julia Busuttil Nishimura tops the weekend brunch favourite with velvety choc-nut spread and fresh fruit.

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Garlic and brie baguette.
EASY

Is Adam Liaw’s easy cheesy garlic bread the best thing you’ll eat all month? You better brie-lieve it

Why settle for ordinary garlic bread when a few slices of brie and a drizzle of honey can turn it into something truly special?

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chicken meuniere.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s chicken meuniere

Though usually made with fish, the French meunière style works really well with chicken, too.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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‘Le Weekend’ loaf aka French-style pound cake with pink grapefruit

This is a lovely citrus cake to bake for snacking over a weekend.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Gateau au chocolate.

RecipeTin Eats’ gateau au chocolat (aka fancy brownie dessert)

This neat trick transforms an everyday brownie to a restaurant-worthy dessert.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Nagi Maehashi
Easter egg millefeuille.

Adam Liaw’s Easter egg millefeuille

If you’ve got surplus chocolate eggs this Easter (and who doesn’t?), try turning them into something a little more exciting.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Emelia Jackson’s lemon, lime and bitters tartlets.

Emelia Jackson’s lemon, lime and bitters tartlets with a ‘dream’ curd you’ll want to eat by the spoonful

Take a refreshing mixed drink and turn it into a luxurious dessert that’s tart, sweet and bitter in all the right ways.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
French apple cake.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s French apple cake

This simple cake is my idea of elegance. As simple as it gets and as tasty as it can be.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw