Tag Archives: cake

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  [...]
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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 [...]
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Pumpkin bread

Happy Thanksgiving! This recipe was extracted from Roland Mesnier’s Dessert University. Roland Mesnier, a French native, was the Executive Pastry Chef at the White House for twenty-five years and fed the likes of President Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and others. Well if it was good enough for them, it should be good enough for us [...]
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