Category: Cakes
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Jewish Honey Cake Not Only For Rosh Hashanah
When it comes to tradition, the Jewish religion beautifully weaves food (or the lack of it) into meaningful ceremonies that were created to regenerate and realign the mind, body and spirit with spiritual teachings. There are so many meanings invested in traditional Jewish foods that it seems like every act of eating is an expression…
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Jewish Apple Crumb Cake
My online recipe research is always so much fun and informative that I just never know what I’m going to come across. It’s always a little exciting when I sit down to my computer and lose myself in all of those wonderful creations that cooks and chefs from around the world so generously share online.…
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Bananas Foster Caramel Custard Cake
The last installment of our Lunch Box dessert series brings us to a real big kid dessert like Bananas Foster. Who doesn’t just love rum spiked bananas in a caramel sauce over vanilla ice cream? I think you would need to be made of steel to be able to resist a dessert like that… The…
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Fauxstess Cupcakes, Ho Ho’s & Ding Dongs
This week’s dessert segment was all about Lunch Box desserts and I’ve had a great time revisiting some of the more traditional snack cakes from my youth. A few that everyone still remembers are not only the Hostess cupcakes, but also the Ho Ho’s and Ding Dong’s. I’ve often thought about how Hostess came up…
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Sinful Cream Filled Snickerdoodle Mini Cakes
One of the most popular cookie flavors for kids other than the chocolate chip cookie is the snickerdoodle. Instead of doing a simple cookie, I wanted to translate that same flavor into a mini cake or muffin. I’ve seen this muffin done many times before, but I wanted to do something extra by filling it…
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Mandarin Pine Nut Roll…As Good As I Remember
Many years ago, I had the great fortune to eat at Tio Pepe’s restaurant in Baltimore. In its heyday, it was one of the destinations you would go to for a perfect meal when you had something important to celebrate. You would enter into the restaurant on Franklin street and descend into the basement level…
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Almond Macaroon Custard Cake
Last year while doing my online recipe research, I discovered something called a leche flan magic cake. Essentially, this is a cake that is baked together with some custard, and during the baking process, the custard magically separates from the cake creating custard at the top and cake on the bottom. When I came across…
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Tender Almond Baby Cakes
Coming up with new and creative individual desserts can sometimes be challenging, especially when you are limited in the amount of time you have to create. My goal was to always have a few really good basic cake recipes on hand that can be turned into just about anything…there’s no sense in having a million…
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Demystifying Dacquoise and Japonais
The first time I learned about this lovely soft and crunchy base that can be used as a cake layer was in culinary school. I was taught that dacquoise (pronounced dak-waz) incorporated almond flour and the other similar version called japonais (pronounced zha-po-nay) used hazelnut flour…but it’s a little more complicated than that. The term…
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Rock ‘n’ Roulade
The roulade is another one of those baked items that is so very versatile, and everyone should have a great recipe to use that comes together quickly and easily…and this is one of those recipes. A roulade is what is called a good ol’ jelly roll here in the USA and even though in most…
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St. Honore Cream Puff Cake
There are so many really great French inspired desserts that don’t get nearly enough attention in the USA, and one of these examples is the St. Honore cream cake. The cake is named after St. Honore (Honoratus) who just happens to be the French patron saint of bakers and pastry chefs. This classic dessert that…