Posts in cakes
Sticky toffee pudding is a classic holiday favorite. Date cake is smothered with a toffee topping, lending the sticky element to the dessert. The cake is served with a pecan and crème fraîche topping.
This Portuguese orange-olive oil cake smacks of intense orange flavor and is very moist, thanks to the olive oil. Use navel oranges and a fruity olive oil.
by Sara Engram and Katie Luber with Kimberly Toqe
from The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices
(Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2009)
Makes 12 cupcakes
Next time your kids mention gingerbread, surprise them with these gingerbread cupcakes with a …
by Fran Gage
from The New American Olive Oil
(Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2009)
4 servings
This semolina-olive oil cake was inspired by a dessert I had at A Voce restaurant in Manhattan. Semolina flour, the finely ground endosperm …
by Joan Nathan
from Jewish Cooking in America
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1998)
Serves 10 to 12 (pareve) or (dairy)
One recipe from the Temple Israel cookbook was a crustless apple crumb cake. An Americanized apple streusel, also known as …
by Martha Stewart Living
from Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes
(Clarkson Potter, 2009)
Makes 30 standard or 60 mini
The summery combination of blueberries and whipped cream tops berry-filled cupcakes. The muffin-like cakes, which can also be served for breakfast or …
by Martha Stewart Living
from Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes
(Clarkson Potter, 2009)
Makes 32
Smaller adaptations of favorite desserts, such as raspberry-swirled cheesecake, are always appealing. Everyone gets his or her own, with plenty of buttery graham-cracker crust in each …
by Martha Stewart Living
from Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes
(Clarkson Potter, 2009)
Makes 24
Dramatic peaks of coffee-flavored seven-minute frosting and a single coffee bean crown mocha cupcakes; the coffee variation of Swiss meringue buttercream and chocolate-covered espresso beans would …
by Carole Bloom
from Bite-Size Desserts
(Wiley, 2009)
Makes fourteen 1 1/2–inch round shortcakes
convert Ingredients
For the shortcakes
3/4 cup (3 1/4 ounces) all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon (1/4 ounce) firmly packed light brown sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons (1 ounce) …
Queques de Limão e Laranga
by David Leite
Makes about 2 dozen 2-inch cakes
Queques are small cakes that can be flavored with most anything: vanilla, lemon, orange — even savory bits such as chicken, chouriço, or presunto. …
Think of this as almost a spice cake with pumpkin. It’s a super moist cake and the maple-cream cheese frosting adds just the right autumnal flavor to the cake. One of Leite’s Culinaria’s most popular recipes.



