Blueberry Upside-Down Coffee Cake
Just a reminder: there’s no coffee in coffee cake! Coffee cake is cake to be eaten with the perfect cup of coffee. And that, my friends, is what a weekend quarantine breakfast is all about. Throw in a good book…
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Coconut Cake with Chocolate and Orange Zest
Bon Appétit used to be my favorite food magazine, but it’s defunct now, sigh. But it lives on in all the recipes I’ve made, loved, saved, and reposted! Here’s one of my favorites 🙂 This recipe is for a very…
Raspberry-Ricotta Snack Cake
Delicious, light and moist, unassuming and satisfying. It’s good for breakfast, it’s good for a light dessert, and it’s good for an afternoon tea or snack. It’s good for company, it’s good for a family treat, and it’s good for…
Strawberry Shortcake
I think this rustic, coarse, only slightly sweet biscuit-type cake base saturated with sweetened sliced strawberries and lots and lots of sweetened whipped cream is just about perfect. If you like sweet, soft, cake-y strawberry shortcake—the highly processed “cake” found…
Madelienes
Madeleines. What are they anyway? Almost a cookie but really a slightly dry cake? Yes, that’s right! No frosting? Nope, but they are often dusted with powdered sugar. No caramel swirl? Never! No bits of chocolate? Well, Starbucks dips the…
Double Chocolate Marble Loaf
Weekend Cake! Isn’t that a delightful subcategory of dessert? According to Dorrie Greenspan it’s a French concept. Weekend Cake is good for anything from breakfast through late night snacking. Weekend Cake travels well, too, and is long lasting—best if left…
Black Forest Torte
Once a year I host a book club meeting at my house, and my night was last night. The book was “The Book Thief” so the theme was German food. Thanks to input from the internet, I decided to make a…
Lemon Layer Cake
It was time for my cookbook club’s “Signature Cake” meeting. A “Signature Cake”, is show-y cake, one that we might become remembered for. A special cake our family and friends might look forward to, or even ask for, on birthdays and special…