Spice bread. Tea cake. Quick bread. Whatever you call it, this recipe has pedigree–and you don’t need to know its geneology to know this. One taste tells all.
Carrot Cake
Jun 09, 2007 by
Two cake layers filled with sweet carrots, pineapple, and coconut are filled and swathed in a thick coating of vanilla-scented cream cheese frosting.
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- 25 M
- 4 H
- 3
Brown Sugar Pound Cake
May 31, 2007 by
A dense, sweet, rich, buttery pound cake becomes even more indulgent, if you dare, with a heavy-handed drizzle of caramel glaze.
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- 30 M
- 1 H, 40 M
- 5
Prune Rum Custard Cake
Apr 24, 2007 by
Far Breton, a specialty of Brittany, France, is a custardy cake similar to a clafouti filled with rum-soaked prunes. Far Breton is great with tea.
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- 15 M
- 50 M
- 0
Black and White Chocolate Cake with Crème Anglaise
Apr 22, 2007 by
Layers of delicate ladyfingers alternate with espresso-and-liqueur laced chocolate mousse. Drizzled over scoops of the cake is a lovely vanilla custard cream.
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- 1 H
- 1 H
- 3
Marbled Lemon–Blueberry Butter Cake
Apr 22, 2007 by
Lemon and blueberry star in this cake. Blueberry preserve fills the cake and is swirled through the batter. The cake is also iced with a lemon buttercream frosting.
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- 1 H, 40 M
- 2 H
- 2
Oatmeal Cake
Apr 22, 2007 by
Yup, you’re allowed to eat this cake for breakfast seeing as there’s moist layers of wholesome oatmeal beneath the coconut and buttery frosting.
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- 50 M
- 1 H, 50 M
- 3
Dried Fruit and Nut Cake
Apr 21, 2007 by
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?
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- 20 M
- 1 H, 20 M
- 2
Chocolate-Mayonnaise Cupcakes with Caramel-Butterscotch Frosting
Apr 21, 2007 by
These chocolate cupcakes are rich and deeply chocolaty, and the caramel-butterscotch buttercream is, well, need we have to describe it? Utterly divine.
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- 1 H
- 1 H, 25 M
- 11
Chocolate-Rum Savarin
Apr 21, 2007 by
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.
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- 45 M
- 4 H
- 0
Almond Cake
Mar 19, 2007 by
Alice Waters’ almond cake recipe abides by her rules of “cook simply.” Yet you’d never know that from tasting it.
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- 20 M
- 1 H, 35 M
- 1
Chocolate French Mousse Cake
Jan 01, 2007 by
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.
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- 30 M
- 4 H
- 2
Cranberry-Orange Cheesecake with Chocolate Crust
Nov 10, 2006 by
Sweetly tart cranberries make an unexpected yet inspired match for this rich, creamy, vanilla-inflected, perfect-for-fall cheesecake. Bye bye, pumpkin pie.
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- 25 M
- 1 H, 15 M
- 0
Brown Sugar–Ice Cream Chocolate Roulade
Jun 27, 2006 by
Brown-sugar ice cream is spiraled between a bittersweet chocolate cake like a jelly roll. Ladled on top is a sumptuous coffee-caramel sauce.
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- 1 H, 15 M
- 10 H
- 2
Lemon-Buttermilk Pudding Cake with Berries
Jun 22, 2006 by
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.
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- 30 M
- 1 H
- 5
Orange and Cream Cake
May 01, 2006 by
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.
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- 0
Indonesia Spice Cake
Apr 23, 2006 by
This butter-rich spice cake, flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves and known as spekkuk is an inheritance from Holland’s colonization of Indonesia.
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- 1
Lemon-Ginger Angel Food and Raspberry-Sorbet Cake
Apr 21, 2006 by
Homemade frozen raspberry sorbet and whipped cream are layered between the lemon and ginger flavored angel food cake halves. Top with fresh raspberries.
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- 0
Lavender Yogurt Cheesecake with Kaffir Lime-Flavored Strawberries
Apr 21, 2006 by
A simple and delightful dessert. Everyone loves cheesecake, and here lavender adds a touch of summer elegance. On top are strawberries steeped in lime.
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- 1