I was there in the kitchen, with the Sad Little Cake, with just a few hours to go and I needed to come up with some sort of non-sad dessert for eight people. I scrambled through some of my favorite, most reliable cookbooks. Everything I picked out needed too much time. Cookies are always easy [...]
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Let me just start by saying I adore Karen DeMasco, and The Craft of Baking is one of my favorite books. But there are sometimes misses among the hits, and this might be one of them. It might just be that I did something wrong, but as I was making the cake I was thinking… [...]
This is one of those things that I hadn’t planned on making, but the stars aligned. Matt posted something about a banana chocolate cake. I had three perfectly overripe bananas sitting in the fruit bowl. Suddenly, there’s cake. This is a beautifully simple cake from a French cookbook. Matt lovingly, painstakingly, translated the recipe (I [...]
I love this cake. Love, love, love. It’s absolutely perfect in every way. Chiffon cake is kind of like angel food cake, except it’s got fat and leavening, so there’s more flavor and body to the cake (it’s also more stable). It’s ultra-moist and doesn’t need any frosting. This one is flavored with orange zest [...]
I knew for sure that I was going to make this cake as soon as I saw the recipe posted on Creative Culinary. This is my kind of cake. It’s not fussy – what I would call a snack cake. It’s ultra moist and doesn’t need any frosting. And there’s nutmeg! I normally think of [...]
The perfect occasion for this simple cake: our friend Brandon was over for dinner, and he’s a picky eater. This cake is difficult for even the most picky of eaters to resist. I love that the cake is cooked in cast iron. My old skillet is pretty much nonstick at this point, a result of [...]
This is a rich, dense pound cake that isn’t too sweet. I love that there are ground pistachios in the batter. I’ve used ground almonds in batters before, but never pistachios. The addition of honey to the cake and the glaze plays well with the nuttiness of the pistachios. I used blueberry honey, which is [...]
For anyone counting, this is my third Baked Sunday Mornings failure in a row. The saving grace for this cake is, no matter how you eat it, it’s delicious. My version needs to be eaten in a bowl, with a spoon. It was the pudding that did me in again. I don’t know if it’s [...]
Pound cake is probably one of my favorite desserts. It’s cake, in its simplest form – unadorned, dense and not fussy. This is a fairly standard pound cake, made in a loaf pan, except it’s flavored with honey and cinnamon. Irresistible. The flavors are subtle, but really nice. I was so happy to see that [...]
All that ice cream making leaves me with a ton of egg whites. And I can only make so many angel food cakes or meringues (another great use – macarons!). These simple little cakes are the Australian version of a French financier. I think I could have cooked mine a bit longer – they were [...]
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