Tag: cake

  • Karen’s Chestnut Flour and Honey Rosemary Cake with Pine Nuts

    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…

  • Grape Harvest Cake

    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.  

  • Jewish Orange and Almond Cake

    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…

  • Banana Bread

    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…