{The recipe is at the end of the post if you are not up to all the yackety yack that ensues starting now.} In late December, after the plum pudding and the ginger cookies and the peppermint bark and the mulled cider/wine and/or hot cocoa, the seasonally affected mama bear inside me, deprived of any chance… Read More »
A Crown Cake for the Feast of Christ the King
*This post was updated Jan 2016 just to tinker with the recipe a little bit and share about a pumpkin variation of this cake!* This upcoming Sunday is the solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe! It can sneak right by if we’re not paying attention, because the following Sunday is the… Read More »
My carrot cake always falls in the middle.
Not as in: in the middle of the scale of fabulous carrot cakes. No. It’s squarely at the high end because it tastes so good. No, it actually falls — the cake doesn’t rise in that nice domed way cakes should. That’s because I put pineapple in it. When I just do raisins, it… Read More »
{bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature at Like Mother, Like Daughter! It had appeared that my most recent plum purchase had let me down. The darned things just wouldn’t ripen. So I consulted with our jam-making (and therefore fruit-savvy) friend, and one of her suggestions was to bake them into a cake.… Read More »
{bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature at Like Mother, Like Daughter! When Auntie Leila was here to provide pre-postpartum support, she made this tasty yogurt cake (among other things). The recipe calls for apples, but this particular version incorporated peaches (she was very excited about the wonderful quality of the peaches here… Read More »