Tag: cake
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Blood Orange Ricotta Cake
This recipe came out of two things: first, I had ricotta that needed to be used up, and blood oranges to do something with. Two, my dear son had taken the bit between his teeth and was raring to make a cooking video. Without further ado, the recipe: Blood Orange Ricotta Cake Preheat the…
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Eat This While You Read That: Amie Gibbons
Welcome back, gentlereaders! Amie asked me nicely if I would be willing to revive the popular series pairing food and books, since she had a book, and a recipe…. and it’s been a long time. I have badly missed this series. It lasted over a year, and I loved doing it. Since her request came…
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Aunt Moya’s Rhubarb Cake
If you have someone you love and they say they don’t care for rhubarb, this is the gateway baked good to lure them into a lifelong affection for the ultimate pie plant. From this delicious brown-sugar and rhubarb cake, to a strawberry rhubarb pie, to rhubarb sauce on ice-cream, the path is paved with deliciousness.…
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Cheesecake Brioche
The other day the First Reader was looking at something in the bakery section at the grocery. He does this often, and it’s a toss-up whether we buy it, or I say ‘I can make that for you?’ depending on the schedule. So the Brioche/Danish thing he was looking at stayed on the shelf, and…
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Splendid Spices
I had a moment of anxiety recently, when I discovered that my husband’s favorite flavor of cake was getting hard to find in cake mixes. Carrot cake doesn’t equal spice cake, although we do like it, and Butter Pecan isn’t right, either, although it’s good too. Spice cake on Amazon was nearly six dollars a…
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‘Tis the Season for Fruitcake
So this is a recipe for fruitcake. Only it isn’t what you’re thinking of. This is my Dorothy-Mom’s recipe which was handed down to her, and which I believe has it’s origins in a time when fruit and sugar were scarce. The resulting cake is sweet, so sweet, dense, rich, chewy, and absolutely does not…