Category: Cakes
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The BEST EVER Gluten Free Chocolate Quinoa Cake
I’ve been doing so much reading lately on the correct way to prepare quinoa and experimenting with recipes to help provide better quality ingredients to help improve the nutrition for my mother’s small meals. Like many others, quinoa is one of those grains that people have turned to because of its high nutritive value, and…
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Father’s Day Apple Cake With Honey Balsamic Toffee Sauce
What I love most about being a professional chef is teaching others how to cook and bake. Baking was always my first love and from the start, I did it well. Cooking was something I learned at a young age, and not something I ever aspired to do — it was something that developed over…
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The Honey Lovers Chocolate Cake
Recently, I was invited to a party where the host suffers from food allergies. Between the ingredients she can’t eat and those she would not eat, I found myself wondering what decadent dessert I could make and bring with me that she would consider trying. Of course I could have made a regular fruit salad…
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Jacques & Julia’s Chocolate Souffle Roulade
I have always been a huge fan of Jacques Pepin and Julia Child, so it was no great surprise that I loved to watch their cooking show together which aired on PBS. I remember watching the episode where they made this particular chocolate roulade, and made a mental to try it. If you have never…
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Cranberry Apple Coffeecake
The holiday season is such a busy time for everyone, with family and friends visiting from all over the world. Each of us are always trying to find great recipes that will help us with our time constraints, yet still show that we have put some time and effort into our prepared meals and desserts.…
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Apple Almond Cake Tart
You might be asking yourself if I’m having a moment of indecisiveness — I mean, who calls a dessert a cake tart — It’s either a cake or a tart, right? Conventional wisdom suggests very clear definitions of both, and tarts usually involve some kind of crust. But, what if you had a sturdy and…
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All Zucchini, Zucchini Bread
Zucchini bread is one of those items that creative moms developed years ago to make use of extra vegetables, kind of in the same vein as carrot or pumpkin cake. It is a delicious treat usually made in the summer when an abundance of zucchini is available or in most cases, when you’ve not had…
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The Elvis Lamington
I recently made a batch of traditional Aussie lamingtons, and as always, everyone simply loved them. If you’ve never heard of them before, let me just say that lamingtons are the Australian counterparts to American cupcakes. Lamingtons can be found in every bakery and café across the country, and like the cupcake, they have recently…
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Chocolate Banana Cake With Burnt Caramel Rum Sauce
I always have bananas on hand because they are one of those fruits that make a great snack and are so good for you. I’m ashamed to say that in the the summer time, most of them don’t get eaten because there are so many other wonderful fruits to choose from. So in these cases,…
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Double Chocolate Fruit And Nut Cake
I know what you’re thinking– another fruit cake recipe that will end up as that proverbial doorstop and won’t be eaten by anyone. Well, I’m here to say that you must get that horrible thought right out of your head… This is definitely a fruit and nut cake, but it’s not what you think. A…
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Golden Holiday Spiced Revani (Greek Semolina Cake)
When I speak to people about Greek desserts, the ones most people are familiar with are desserts like baklava, karidopita, galatobureko and kourabiethes. An equally delicious but lesser known Greek dessert is something called Revani (pronounced as written, re-va-ni)– I have also seen this spelled ravani. On the rare occasion that I find it at…