Dried Fruit and Nut Cake
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Chock-full of crunchy nuts and moist dried fruit, this cake is a taste sensation. May we suggest a choice of apricots, plums, pears, or peaches?
Chocolate-Mayonnaise Cupcakes with Caramel-Butterscotch Buttercream Frosting
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by Jill O’Connor
from Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey:
Desserts for the Serious Sweet Tooth
(Chronicle Books, 2007)
Makes 24 standard cupcakes
I adapted this recipe from one by Hellmann’s, increasing the cocoa powder and sugar and reducing the eggs by one. It’s easy to assemble and practically foolproof. The batter is rich and deeply chocolaty, and results in bouncy little [...]
Chocolate-Rum Savarin
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Rich and tender, this yeast leavened cake is moistened by a good soaking of rum syrup and frosted with gianduja cream. No savarin mold? A Bundt pan will do.
Almond Cake
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A simple almond cake recipe from Alice Waters that abides by her rule of “cook simply”. Accompany with fruit jams and top with sliced almonds.
Chocolate French Mousse Cake
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This fudge-like mousse cake pushes the opulence barometer right to the edge. A cinnamon nut crust holds a 1 1/2 pounds of bittersweet chocolate mousse.
Cranberry-Orange Cheesecake with Chocolate Crust
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Bon Appetit’s vanilla cheesecake scented with orange peel and topped with sweetened fresh cranberries is a perfect fall dessert when cranberries are fresh.
Kugelhopf
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Part bread, part cake, kugelhopf is made like brioche, but not as rich. This one is studded with raisins and brushed with a butter and dusted with sugar.
Brown Sugar–Ice Cream Chocolate Roulade
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Brown-sugar ice cream is spiraled between a bittersweet chocolate cake like a jelly roll. Ladled on top is a sumptuous coffee-caramel sauce.
Lemon-Buttermilk Pudding Cake with Chantilly Cream and Berries
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Sweet-tart lemon infuses this soft pudding cake. On top is a sweet vanilla whipped cream and a tumble of fresh in-season berries. A great summer dessert.
Banana Fritters
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In this African treat, bananas play the starring role in a simple, crispy fritter that makes a great dessert or sweet snack. Like all fritters,
Orange and Cream Cake
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This orange and cream cake will remind you of a Creamsicle. Just one bite of the intense orange cake and orange-cream frosting is addictive. A great cake.
Meringue Cups with Lime Cream and Fresh Berries
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With its crown of berries, tart lime cream filling, and crunchy meringue base, this dessert looks like it could’ve come straight from a tony Paris patisserie.
Brown Bread Apple Cobbler
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This apple cobbler substitutes brown soda bread crumbs for the usual oatmeal topping and offers a snappy sauce: a whiskey-flavored creme anglaise.
Chocolate Brownie Mousse
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Layers of thick, creamy chocolate mousse and smooth coffee mousse alternate with crumbles of walnut brownies and are topped off with dollops of whipped cream.
Indonesia Spice Cake
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This butter-rich spice cake, flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves and known as spekkuk is an inheritance from Holland’s colonization of Indonesia.
Lavender Yogurt Cheesecake with Kaffir Lime-Flavored Strawberries
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A simple and delightful dessert. Everyone loves cheesecake, and here lavender adds a touch of summer elegance. On top are strawberries steeped in lime.
Pear and Vanilla Cake with Custard
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This vanilla cake is brightened with lemon zest and topped with a fine wreath of caramelized pears. Warm vanilla custard is poured over each wedge.
German Chocolate Cake with Coconut-Pecan Filling
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A dark, bittersweet chocolate cake is layered with a caramel-y filling of coconut and chopped pecans and stacked tall for a dessert to impress guests.
Cinnamon Streusel Sour Cream Coffee Cake
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Enjoy for an afternoon treat or more special occasions, this sour cream coffee cake is rich and moist with a sweet cinnamon streusel drizzled on top.
Orange Cupcakes with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
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Cupcakes aren’t just for kids — grown-ups are especially fond of these orange-scented little cakes, which sport a luscious orange cream cheese frosting.
White Cupcakes with Truffle Cream Topping
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These tender cupcakes scented with vanilla are topped with a rich truffle filling, so chocolate lovers can have their cake and chocolate, too.
Snowflake Cake
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a simple cake gets the holiday treatment with a silky buttercream frosting and white chocolate stars decorated with dragees–silvery little pearls of sugar.
Coconut and Lime Macadamia Cake
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A simple yet elegant cake that is packed with lime and coconut, studded with macadamia nuts, and drizzled with a lime icing.
Chocolate Icebox Cakes with Coffee Cream
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A spin on the original Nabisco icebox cake, these mini versions are filled with coffee whipped cream–a perfect companion to the chocolate wafers.
Chocolate Cherry Shortcakes
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These naughty chocolate biscuits are dripping with sweet cherry goodness–a take on cherries jubilee. Vanilla ice cream completes the dessert.
