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Alina Fintineanu ✨

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👩🏼‍🍳 Pastry Chef • Recipes & Baking Tips
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Food Content Creators Gala ✨
Mă simt extrem de onorată să fi fost nominalizată printre Chefi atât de talentați și pasionați!
Locația @jwmarriottbucharest a fost foarte frumoasă, mulțumesc pentru considerație @foodcontentcreatorsro și tuturor sponsorilor care au făcut din acesta un eveniment de reținut!
Încrucișăm degetele, poate voi lua acasă un trofeu anul viitor 🫶🏼

Feeling extremely honoured to have been nominated among such talented and passionate Chefs!
The venue @jwmarriottbucharest was beautiful, thank you for the consideration @foodcontentcreatorsro all the sponsors who made it an event to remember!
Fingers crossed I’ll take home a trophy next year 🫶🏼

#gala #foodcontent #foodcontentcreator #romania #bucharest #bucuresti #eveniment #rochie #gown #woman #elegant #awards #beautiful #evenimente taken in Bucuresti by @luxebaker

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2 years ago

Comment CARAMEL for the recipe.

A silky vanilla cheesecake with a pecan-almond crust gets topped with buttery caramelized Granny Smith apples, warm cinnamon, and homemade salted caramel for a dessert that brings all the best fall flavors together. by @luxebaker

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3 days ago

Comment CAKE for the recipe.

This show-stopping Biscoff banana pudding cake layers tender vanilla cake, vanilla pudding, fresh bananas, and lightly sweetened whipped cream with a spiced Biscoff drizzle for rich caramelized flavor. by @luxebaker

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a month ago

🥕🫜QUICK-PICKLED VEGETABLES 🥒🫙

Crisp, tangy, fresh and SO easy. One of my favorite ways to add acidity and crunch to meals—and you can do it with almost any vegetable. 🌱
🔖 Save the recipe and try it yourself!

💧 QUICK-PICKLE BRINE • 2 cups water • 1 cup white wine vinegar • 1 tbsp fine salt • 2 tbsp sugar

Combine the water, vinegar, salt and sugar in a saucepan and heat just to a boil, stirring until everything has dissolved.
Pack your clean glass jars with evenly sliced or julienned vegetables, then pour the hot brine over top, making sure the vegetables are completely submerged. Let cool for about 20 minutes, cover and refrigerate. ❄️
They’ll start picking up flavor quickly, but I like them best after 2 days.

🍋 LOVE A STRONGER PICKLE? I prefer a milder, less vinegary brine, but if you love that really punchy pickle flavor, try equal parts water and vinegar instead.

🫑 VEGETABLES TO TRY Carrots • radishes • celery • cucumber • red onion • cauliflower • green beans • peppers • asparagus • daikon • turnip

🌿 FLAVOUR IDEAS  Keep them simple or add fresh garlic, dill, thyme, rosemary, peppercorns, mustard seeds, coriander seeds, chili flakes, fresh ginger or turmeric.

🥪 HOW TO USE Sandwiches & wraps, burgers, tacos, grilled chicken or meat, rice & grain bowls, eggs, hummus, salads, roasted potatoes and cheese boards, or just eat them straight from the jar. 😋

🧊 STORAGE Keep refrigerated with the vegetables submerged in brine and enjoy them within a few weeks.
I started with carrots and they’re still my favorite…🥕🤍 But now I want to pickle EVERYTHING.

#pickling #tastemade #easyrecipes #foodhacks #healthyrecipes taken in Bucharest, Romania by @luxebaker

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2 months ago

Manifesting Greece 💙🤍

#summer #lifelately #europeansummer #femininestyle #bucharest

Immaculate textures in this tartare 👌🏼

A little twirl..💃🏼 this looks like the opening movie scene with the guy’s wife and something tragic happens to her 😂 let’s hope not but do you see it? 🫣🤣

Felt like a princess walking around these gardens 🏰

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Dreamy ✨

Monet would be proud 🪷

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Brașov and all its charms ❣️ (and some excellent ice cream and road trip snacks)

But really, why am I not in Greece right now 🥺

Imagine being mean to me and never getting to eat my desserts again 😂✌🏼

🪷 I loved this whole look..! So you get two photos of it 🤭🩵

Night at the Theatre 🎭

🏎️ 💅🏼 taken in Bucharest, Romania by @luxebaker

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3 months ago

☁️Cloud Pizza 🍕 (high protein, low cal!)

This may be my new obsession 🤤 this cloud-like pizza base is sturdy enough to be fully loaded, unbelievably low in calories and high in protein! Sounds weird, totally works. Who says you can’t have pizza daily and still hit your goals? 😍

🔖 Save the recipe and try it out!

Base
190 g (6 large) egg whites, room temp  10-12g cornstarch ½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp onion powder large pinch of salt

Toppings
40g pizza sauce  20g low-fat mozzarella, shredded 3 mini protein chicken meatballs, halved  80g sliced mushrooms, canned
20g cherry tomatoes, halved
1 garlic clove, minced  1/2 tsp dried oregano Fresh basil (after baking)

Preheat oven to 180°C non-convection with a flat baking sheet on the middle rack.
In a large bowl, whip egg whites to stiff peaks. Add the cornstarch, garlic powder, onion powder and salt, whip until incorporated.
Spread and smooth into a 22cm disk on parchment, around 1–1.5 cm thick. Slide onto the preheated baking sheet in the oven.
Bake 10 minutes, until lightly set and just beginning to colour.
Spread pizza sauce, top with mozzarella, garlic, mini protein meatballs and mushrooms, then sprinkle with oregano.
Return to the oven for 14 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and beginning to brown.
Finish with fresh basil and allow to cool for 5 minutes before slicing. 🔥👌🏼

#highprotein #lowcal #volumeeating #pizza #recipe taken in Bucharest, Romania by @luxebaker

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3 months ago

❌ No piping tip? No problem 😌

With two strategic cuts at the tip of your piping bag, you can create this beautiful St. Honoré piping style on cakes and desserts!

🔖 Save this hot tip and send it to your favourite baker 🤍

#baking #piping #bakinghack #dessert #bake taken in Bucharest, Romania by @luxebaker

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3 months ago

Coffee Caviar ☕✨

These glossy little pearls look straight out of a Michelin-star restaurant 😍 but they’re surprisingly easy to make at home with just a few simple ingredients. Elevate a tiramisu, espresso martini, inside a latte…🤎
🔖 Save this recipe for your next dessert!

Ingredients
1½ - 2 cups vegetable or canola oil
4 tsp (13g) powdered gelatin
3 tbsp (30g) cold water
2½ tsp instant espresso powder (or to taste)
1 tbsp sugar (or to taste)
pinch of fine salt
1/4 cup (60ml) hot water

Chill the oil in a tall glass overnight (min 8 hours) until very cold. Bloom the gelatin in the cold water for 5 minutes.
Whisk espresso powder, sugar and salt into the hot water until dissolved, then pour over the bloomed gelatin and stir until completely smooth.
Let the mixture cool until just warm.
Place the chilled oil into an ice bath to keep it cold. Transfer the coffee mixture to a squeeze bottle, pipette/syringe or piping bag with a small hole cut, and gently drip it into the cold oil. Try dripping from different heights to see what size you like and how they form best. The droplets should briefly float, then combine and sink as round pearls. If they become misshapen, the mixture is too warm or the oil isn’t cold enough. Strain through a fine mesh sieve, rinse under cold water, drain well and use. Best fresh or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week submerged in little neutral oil. Rinse before using. 🤎✨

#dessert #recipe #finedining #baking #easyrecipes taken in Bucharest, Romania by @luxebaker

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3 months ago

Caramel Pecan Sticky Buns 🤎✨
Because you’re inevitably going to fall in love with them too 🤤👌🏼 sticky, soft, indulgent…🔖 save this because you won’t be sorry 🙌🏼

DOUGH:
4.5 cups (565g) all-purpose flour
1/3 cup (67g) granulated sugar
1 packet (2 1/4 tsp, 7g) instant yeast
1 teaspoon salt
1.5 cups (355 ml) milk
6 tbsp (85g) unsalted butter
1 large egg, room temp

CARAMEL PECAN topping:
1/4 cup (80ml) light corn syrup
1 cup (200 g) brown sugar
4 tbsp (57g) unsalted butter
2 cups (218 g) pecan halves

CINNAMON SUGAR filling:
2 Tablespoons butter, softened
1/3 cup (67 g) brown sugar
1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon

Combine 2 cups of the flour, yeast, salt and sugar. Warm the milk and butter until just warm, then add with the egg to the flour mixture. Mix, gradually adding the remaining flour until a soft dough forms. Knead until smooth and elastic, I kneaded 25-30 mins in my stand mixer.
Transfer to a greased bowl, cover and let rise until doubled, or rise overnight in the fridge.
Line a 9×13-inch pan with parchment and scatter the pecans evenly. Bring the corn syrup, brown sugar and butter to a boil for 1 minute, then pour over the pecans.
On a floured surface, roll the dough into an 18×12-inch rectangle. Spread with butter, sprinkle over the cinnamon sugar filling and roll up tightly from the long side. Cut off end pieces. Cut log into 12 even rolls (I used floss) and place over the caramel. Cover and let rise until puffy and doubled, about 1 hour.
Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes, until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes, then carefully invert onto a serving board. Enjoy warm! 😋🤎

Recipe credit:
@bromabakery
https://bromabakery.com/caramel-pecan-sticky-buns/

#pecan #recipe #viralrecipe #cinnamonbuns #dessert taken in Bucharest, Romania by @luxebaker

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3 months ago

🍫 Nutella Ice Cream🍦

I didn’t expect this to work 🤯
My hack for the easiest 2-ingredient ice cream that actually tastes like Nutella.

🔖 Save this video & try it yourself!

Ingredients:
60 g Nutella
130 g heavy whipping cream (35%)
pinch of salt (optional)

🥣 Method:
Heat cream until just boiling.
Pour into Nutella jar (leave 1–1.5 cm space at top). Add salt.
Cover with lid, let sit 2 minutes.
Shake vigorously (use a towel at first — it may leak slightly).
Stir/scrape sides until fully smooth and melted.
It should look like a Nutella milkshake, slightly too sweet is perfect.
Freeze until firm!
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#nutella #bakinghack #icecream #baking #viral taken in Bucuresti by @luxebaker

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4 months ago

Huracannnnn 🔥

(a bit of summer so far…)

Come a lil’ bit closer

Cherries 5/10 🍒
Cats 10/10 🐱🐱

Should have been born in the 50s 👗

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Lost in translation

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Cinematic ✨

:)

No bad angles 👌🏼

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Paris, bien sûr…❤️‍🔥

I highly recommend becoming a pillow for a smol cat 🥹

Ooh la la 🤍🖤

Tiramisu for the bestie

The scent of summer 🤤

Trade my dark grey for coral? 🤭😍 taken in Romania by @luxebaker

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4 months ago

🍪🥛 Mini Cookie Cereal 🥣

This and Sunday morning cartoons 🥹 arguably the best exercise of free will is that you can make a big jar of mini cookies and have them like cereal..and nobody can stop you 😆 and they’re as delicious as they are adorable.
🔖 Save the recipe for a nostalgic breakfast!

Ingredients:
114 g unsalted butter, softened
50 g granulated sugar
100 g light brown sugar, tightly packed
1 large egg, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
185 g all purpose flour, sifted
1/2 tsp baking soda, sifted
1/2 tsp salt
180 g semi sweet mini chocolate chips, set aside 25g

Preheat oven to 330˚F/165˚C non-convection. Line a baking sheet with parchment. In the bowl of a stand mixer with paddle attachment, beat butter and both sugars for 5 minutes on medium/high speed until creamy and light, scraping down the bowl as needed. Add egg and vanilla, beating well and scraping down the bowl.  In a separate bowl, sift and whisk flour, salt, and baking soda . Add the flour mixture to the creamed butter on low speed, mixing until just incorporated. Fold in mini chocolate chips, set aside 25g to top mini cookies.
Transfer small amounts of the batter to a doubled up piping bag (easier to pipe). Cut a 1cm hole at the tip or use a 1cm round piping tip like I did. Pipe lines of dough as shown onto parchment. Freeze until firm. Cut small pieces of about 1-1.5cm. Roll into balls. Add reserved additional mini chocolate chips - they’ll look very cute!
 Bake one cookie sheet at a time for 6-8 min (I baked 6 minutes because my cookies were very small), until edges are just turning golden. Do not overbake! Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet 5 min then transfer to a rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container with a piece of bread or a tortilla - great tip to keep them soft! Serve as you would cereal with milk. Enjoy! 🍪❤️

#cereal #breakfast #breakfastideas #cute #cookies taken in Bucuresti by @luxebaker

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