Category: Cakes
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Karen’s Chestnut Flour and Honey Rosemary Cake with Pine Nuts
Good ole Kaz again. It’s starting to get creepy, I know.. I made this unusual cake tonight and the flavour’s kinda hard to explain. The chestnut flour gives a lovely full, rich flavour and the rosemary gives it some savouriness (?) but it’s good alright. I thought it wouldn’t be something the kids would come…
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Grape Harvest Cake
I came across this recipe quite by accident last week when looking for recipes to use up a glut of lemons. I’d never tried grapes in a cake, but when I thought about it, realised it would probably be bloody delicious, so gave it a go yesterday. Well, yum.
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Basque Burnt Cheesecake
I made this cheesecake for the first time over a year ago and haven’t tried it since. I don’t know why though, I’ve thought about it often and it was so easy to whip up. My brother generously told me it was the best thing I’d ever made! He’s got quite a sweet tooth that…
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Jewish Orange and Almond Cake
I’m told this is a classic Passover dessert. It’s a beautiful recipe with very few ingredients which produces a lovely moist cake to enjoy with a cuppa. It uses whole oranges, boiled and then pulped in the food processor which gives the cake a lovely tang. I’ve seen a few different versions of this type of…
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Banana Bread
Why is it that when you feel like a banana, there’s none left and when you have some in the house they are left to go brown!? When I have three or four overripe bananas, I think of this yummy banana bread (which is really more like cake – I’m not sure why they call it…
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Melopita (honey cake)
Sometimes I can’t get ricotta at the deli and end up having to buy a whole kilo from the cheese fridge at the supermarket. If you find yourself with way too much ricotta, this is a great way to use it up. It’s a really quick, easy and delicious little Greek cheese cake that’s kind of like…