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Category Archives: cake
Retro cake
I guess everyone has their own personal notion of what a retro cake is. A retro cake, to me, is the one my mother used to serve when she had her girlfriends over for the purpose of playing bridge or gossiping. Personally, out of the two activities I find gossiping to be a lot [...]
20 Comments Orange/chocolate cake
You may feel the same way: When the weather gets cold and dreary, nothing beats a nice fragrant cake with a pot of steaming tea or coffee. Especially if the cake in question is fairly easy to put together. Once the ingredients are rounded up, this one takes minutes to make. INGREDIENTS: 2 loaf cakes [...]
26 Comments Rum cake (Baba au rhum)
Whether it was due to the French presence in Lebanon or other factors, the fact remains that the Lebanese remain strongly influenced by French culture, including (especially) French food and French pastries. Every neighborhood boasts at least one pastry shop offering croissants, éclairs, mille-feuilles, babas, petits-fours and sablés. A baba au rhum seems like a [...]
26 Comments Cranberry-orange chiffon cake
America’s greatest achievement (for some) was when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. From my pastry kitchen in Dallas, Texas, I say America’s greatest achievement was when Harry Baker invented the “chiffon”cake. America beat France but no one was cheering; the chiffon cake is just as versatile as a génoise, except more moist and easier [...]
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Date cake with milk sauce