One of the upsides of holiday baking is the revisiting of old recipes. Recipes you hoard, covet, and savor during this celebratory time of year. Recipes I posted a year ago, and am now revisiting for the first time since the original post. Recipes that leave me second guessing myself, and wondering “wait? really?” “that…
Category: Cake
Brown Butter Cake with Dulce de Leche, Toasted Hazelnuts, and Figs
In the past I have been forbidden from baking my own Birthday cakes, something about not laboring on your special day and letting others do all the work in preparation for your birthday celebration. Generally I would agree with the sentiment. It’s the one day out of the year where you should automatically get a…
Bourbon Butterscotch Peach Cakes
I have really been slacking on my blog posts lately. There is just something about these lazy summer days that keeps me out, about, and away from my computer. The garden, the lake, even laying out on a blanket in the grass seems to be a better draw to me then the kitchen these days….
Mocha Ice-Cream Cake
My Mother put in a request for a Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream cake for her birthday this year, and while I love the ice-cream and cake combo, I have found that most commercial ice-cream cakes fail dismally when it comes to the cake side of the equation. If I wanted ice-cream in the shape of…
The Ephemeral Bee 