Another dinner party. Another cake. A light, fluffy coconut cake with chocolate buttercream and a chocolate ganache filling. The coconut cake is one of my Mom’s favorite recipes, and the one and only time I attempted to bake this particular cake, prior to this, resulted in one of my most memorable baking disasters. My family…
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Mini Victoria Sandwiches
Lately I have been binge watching old BBC murder mystery series, and one of the recurring themes, aside from the copious amounts of tea and beautifully manicured cottage gardens, are the town bake-offs. I have lost count of the number of people that have keeled over dead after eating a heaping forkful of Victoria Sponge….
Poppy Seed Cake
My Mom’s Poppy Seed Cake is one of the easiest cakes to make, and it was my Mom’s “go to” cake for entertaining, for many years. She’d whip one of these up when expecting guests for coffee or tea. It is a great cake for beginners – one of the first cakes I ever baked….
Honey Cardamom Apple Cake
Apples! Apples! Apples!!! They are everywhere this time of year! It’s a good thing that I love them. In fact, I am a bit of an apple snob. I refuse to eat them off season, but once September comes around my apple a day becomes three apples a day – time to make up for…
The Ephemeral Bee 