Spiced Applesauce Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting: 2000s Recipes + Menus. Baklava. My style of baklava is nut-heavy, as you can see.
I like it that way, though it does produce a baklava that isn’t easy to eat according to formal Turkish baklava etiquette. If you’re a stickler for formality, cut down the nuts. The result will be pieces of baklava that are easier to spear with a fork and pop into your mouth. Start with the nuts. I use an equal mix of walnuts, almonds, pistachios and pine nuts.
Pulse them in your food processor until they’re finely chopped by not ground down to a paste. Add your brown sugar and spices… …and stir. ..and trim them down to size using a ruler. Since filo will get brittle with only a few minutes’ exposure to the air, you’ll want to cover it with a kitchen towel… …spritzed lightly with water. Now for the fun part. Apply butter to the bottom of your pan. Drop in a filo layer and butter it liberally. Spread on half your nut mixture… …and pat it down gently. Now start layering on more buttered sheets of filo. …then the remaining half of your nuts… Cinnamon Roll Cake. You all know that I love breakfast foods.
Maybe it’s because I don’t really cook breakfast that often. My husband sometimes cooks breakfast stuff on the weekends. We usually just eat cereal in the morning. The other night we had French toast with Portuguese sausage for dinner. German Chocolate Cake: Inside-out. My sister celebrated a birthday recently, and since we both believe that sending a card or present across the country for this event is necessary, I’ve been trying to think of other ways to celebrate.
You know — it’s the thought that counts sort of thing. Two years ago, I posted a tribute to her. Last year, my husband and I held a candle and snapped a photo in mid, “Happy Birthday to You…” and this year? My Baker’s Crush: BAKED (and The Whiteout Cake) Shhh, don’t tell anyone, but I have a huge baker’s crush.
Huge. As baking enthusiasts, I imagine many of you already know, love, and adore the popular baking cookbooks by famed BAKED bakery boys, Matt Lewis & Renato Poliafito: Baked: New Frontiers in Baking . Hawaiian Carrot Cake with Coconut Icing. Happy Thursday!
I hope you’re having a great week, and for some of you, today is actually Friday, since tomorrow is Good Friday, which likely makes your week even better. It’s definitely a crazy time around our house, with my working feverishly on some wedding projects, Reese’s 4th birthday coming up on Monday, my typical baking adventures, and, well, just life as a mom of 2 small kids leading into a busy family-packed Easter weekend. I’ve been baking like crazy, and was really looking forward to making a really delicious carrot cake for Easter . . . Zingy Orange Ginger Carrot Cake with White Chocolate Icing. Happy Good Friday!
Well, it happened. Trust me, I know this is going to sound trite, but this cake is the the most delicious dessert I have ever eaten. Ever. As in not just the best cake, but the best dessert experience (borderline religious) of my entire existence. True, there are a few many desserts that I am very enthusiastic about, and such a bold statement isn’t intended to take any glory away from those fabulous sweets, but this one is it for me. Dark Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Fluffy Rosewater Frosting. There’s something about the word “chiffon” that simply makes me happy.
And hungry. Pair it with the word cake, and you know I’m going to be intrigued. I’ve been wanting to share a chiffon cake with you for some time now, but truly, there are so many flavour variations out there that I felt it would be best to wait until I made one that really excited me and that I found unique and nothing short of delightful. What makes a chiffon cake a chiffon cake? Well, it’s a light and springy cake that gets its height from a generous number of egg whites that are beaten separately from the egg yolks into a stiff peak meringue and folded into the blended batter base, which typically includes oil (never butter), flour, baking powder, and sugar. According to What’s Cooking America, the first chiffon cake was introduced in 1927, by its inventor, Harry Baker, a Los Angeles insurance agent who kept his recipe guarded for two decades, baking and selling it to Hollywood stars exclusively.
Strawberry Layer Cake with Whipped Strawberry Frosting. Well, hello there!
Moist Blueberry Cake with Light Lemon Icing. Red Velvet & Cinnamon Layer Cake {and Red Velvet Link Love!} It’s a Red Velvet Cake craze, my friends!
I may be a little late to the Red Velvet party, but I’ve arrived, outfitted in a quintessential vintage red polka dot 50′s dress, of course, and with a cake in tow — a Red Velvet Layer Cake with Whipped Cinnamon filling and Rich & Fluffy Cream Cheese Frosting, no less — just in time for Valentine’s Day. Are you gearing up for the big day? I certainly was, as I had so many fun Valentine’s ideas to share with you, and then, bam! , earlier this past week I became super ill and was out of commission. I didn’t even see it coming — it was kind of crazy.
Choco Choco Birthday Cake. Happy Birthday!
Who’s birthday is it? I’m not sure, but it’s got to be someone’s birthday and I know they deserve this cake. Besides, any cake designated a birthday cake and adorned with candles just tastes better, in my opinion–especially chocolate cake. Autumn Delight Cake. So it turns out this cake has more ingredients than any cake I have ever made! And when I started to write the cake description in the blog title, I realized that there are 18 words and two ampersands in the name. Yep. Triple-Lemon Blueberry Layer Cake. Happy Wednesday! I hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day with all of your lovies. I woke up yesterday morning, with a sudden and unrelenting need for sunshine–in any form. For what I think was the first time, rather than craving a particular food (or ingredient), I was craving a colour: yellow!
I knew I had to make and bake something full of sunshine–absolutely bursting with sunshine, from the inside out: this time it was all about flavour. Chocolate Birthday Cake {Video Tutorials} Well hi! It’s been a bit since my last post, maybe the longest ever, but you know I’m always nearby and knee-deep in frosting and cake. I had so much fun making my the Pastel Swirl Cake video tutorial that I wanted to make yet another this week. So it turns out that I’m in a crazy-for-chocolate mood lately, and I made this 3-layer chocolate birthday cake to celebrate (party for 1?). Since the most requested tutorial has been “how to frost a cake,” that’s the theme of the first video in this post. Lemon-Blueberry Macaron Delight Cake. Where to begin! I have so much to say right now–I really do. So here’s what happened: I’ve recently been crazy for anything with the combination teal/turquoise and yellow, and since I was planning a visit to see my sister-in-law earlier this week, I thought it would be the perfect time to make her some colourful treats, and not just any treat, but something special.
I knew in my heart it was a French macaron kind of week, because they are not only a complete delight to make and share, but I can’t think of a sweet that says colour the way they do. So at first, this post was going to be all about the glory of macarons, sans cake, but then I decided to keep going with the colour and flavour combination, and tie them into a small cake (inside and out). At first glance, aside from the hint of filling peeking through the sides, they may appear sort of dry or innocent, but they literally burst with flavour and melt in your mouth, making them worth every bit of effort. Cherry-Vanilla Delight Cake. I have very fond memories of cherry chip cake, I really do. (You know, as opposed to all of those very unpleasing memories of other cake varieties.) But it does seem that I hold a special place in my heart for the irresistibly sweet and old-fashioned cherry chip cake. The idea of it triggers not only childhood memories for me, but grown-up memories that make me smile.
Six-Layer Dark Chocolate & Strawberry Buttercream Cake. I baked you a Buttermilk Cake. Rum Cake (from scratch!) Beet Chocolate Bundt Cake. I just got home from an exciting day of hosting two live cooking shows at the New York Botanical Garden where I showed two audiences how to prepare different recipes featuring delicious, in-season beets. Italian Rainbow Cookie Cake. Last month, I got an email from an editor at Bon Appetit magazine asking me if I'd be interested in entering one of my desserts in their holiday bake-off contest.
I was excited about the prospect, but had a hard time deciding what to enter. After stressing about it for much longer than I should have, I decided to just go with one of my old favorites. Lemon Poppy Seed Cake Drizzled with Lemon Icing. Lemon Poppy Seed Cake.... mmm mmm mmm. It was one of my favorite cakes growing up. My mom often whipped it up when we were in the mood for something sweet or if we had visitors staying with us and wanted to have something yummy for people to snack on a slice whenever they were in the mood. Buche de noel. Everything about this holiday dessert is just so pretty—from the perfect cake roll slathered with mocha buttercream frosting to the adorable meringue mushrooms. I love it all and thank great grandma for this perfectly timeless recipe.
Chocolate Spice Cake Recipe. Yesterday was my brother’s birthday. For any new readers who don’t know, my brother passed away three years ago when he was just nineteen years old. And I can’t speak for anyone else that has lost a loved one but for me, birthdays are always harder than the actual death anniversary. It’s like, that was their day…you know? Their special, special day that no one could take away. Yesterday was a good day. Lemon Olive Oil Cake. Pull-Apart Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Bread. Pear Spice Cake with Walnut Praline Topping. Kid Table. Can we talk about the Kid Table? The Kid Table was something that I had to endure every holiday from the age of three to um…. present.
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