Olive Oil Cake with Candied Orange. There is a long tradition of semolina cakes in the Middle East and the Mediterranean that benefit from a dousing of syrup usually made from honey.
There are varying ingredients and shapes and flavors that have endured through history but all are celebrations of culture and sharing. And though there are many wonderful variations, this particular Olive Oil Cake with Candied Orange is so deliciously constructed it rises to the top of most other cakes I’ve had in this genre. The cake is enriched with olive oil and yogurt and lightly scented with cardamom and orange zest. Brown Butter Spiced Apple Cake Sandwich Cookies Recipe. Recently, I’ve been inundated with a lifetime supply of apples.
Not only do we buy them every weekend at the farmer’s market, people are giving them to us left, right and centre and there is also a scraggly little tree in our new backyard sporting several dozen tiny, hard-as-rock mystery apples. After piling them all up on the countertop, I realized there was no way around it, I had to bake something. Sure, I could make most of it into my famous apple butter, which I will eventually, but I need something a little fancier. Something to bring out that fall flavour, and entice the mister into digging right in there with me. Chocolate-Nut Zucchini Bread. User reviews made it?
RATE IT! By pokano, 10/20/2013Excellent zucchini bread made just as the recipe is written--moist with just a hint of chocolate. Will definitely make again! By LArcher, 9/5/2013Made this tonight after having tried the finecooking pumpkin loaf with olive oil instead of butter. I used 6 tablespoons of regular flavor olive oil and 2 tablespoons of blood orange flavored olive oil. By carol1945, 7/18/2012I have a standard, fantastic zucchini bread recipe from Sunset from 30 years ago. Sugar-free, grain-free sweet parsnip bread. Hello all!
It's my sixth week of the sugar-free challenge and I am quite excited to share another recipe with you. For this recipe, I was thinking of all the vegetables one could use to make sweet cakes and desserts. There are the usual suspects - carrot, sweet potato, zucchini and beetroot, of course. But parsnips have been a favourite of mine for as long as I can remember, and I've been meaning to use them in a cake for a while. You could easily make a carrot version of this sweet bread, but if you are keen to try something different, I urge you to give a go at parsnips. On the note of the sugar-free challenge, I was so happy to be featured in Sarah's inspirational blog earlier this week. Sweet Parsnip Bread 300g almond meal pinch of sea salt 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking soda 5 eggs (free-range, organic) 60ml extra-virgin olive oil or melted organic butter 2 tablespoons brown rice syrup* 300g grated parsnips 150g chopped walnuts 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Pumpkin Quick Bread Recipe. A Spoonful of Promises | Lyons Press, 2011 Like many young people who swallowed their fairy tales whole, it took me a long time to come to terms with the pumpkin as something to eat.
It was a place for Jack Sprat to keep his wife. It was, if you believed Cinderella, an effective substitute for a cab so long as you didn’t stay out too late (a bit like the Brooklyn-bound F train). And its hollow grin lit our steps, like everybody elses’s, once a year, inviting the Headless Horseman to reclaim his cranial property. The pumpkin is a storybook creature, a thing of tall-tale size and magical properties.
Our family didn’t. Very often, kids find the idea of eating pumpkin grotesque. If you want to make children eat pumpkin, you have to wave your wand and conjure away all its texture failings. Fresh Cranberry Cream Scones with candied ginger. So what… I’m a girl obsessed. This week I’ve treated myself to cranberry colored lipstick. I am way into my new cranberry sweater. I have my eye on some cranberry colored pumps (yea… pumps). Cranberry nail polish, duh. I have a bag of fresh cranberries in my fridge and I’m slowly teaching myself to gnaw on them raw. Weird. Fresh cranberries coarsely chopped paired with sweet and spicy candied ginger.
Sunday. Strawberry buttermilk muffins. Sunday.
Second breakfast o’clock. Those couple of hours after you’ve had the regulation two pieces of toast or that austere bowl of bran flakes. The moment when someone in the room finally says, Right, I’ll make the tea, shall I? Then it’s off to the kitchen, pulling out the mixing bowls, trying not to get batter on your pajamas while making something suitably Sunday. Some people think it’s the wrong move, having muffins for second breakfast. But the derision poured on muffins being false cakes in paper jackets is unwarranted if you’ve ever had a really good muffin. Strawberry buttermilk muffins : (makes 10; recipe by Lorraine Godsmark) 380g plain flour 150g caster sugar pinch of salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 2 eggs, lightly beaten 300ml buttermilk 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract 150g melted butter 1 punnet (250g) chopped strawberries Demerara sugar for sprinkling (optional) Preheat oven to 200′C.
Brown Butter Roasted Banana Bread Recipe. Happy Hallowe’en folks!
I know, I know, no Hallowe’en post? No scary dirt and worms or cupcakes shaped like spiders? No mummy dogs or kitty litter cakes?