Articles that mention "cakes"



Rum cake with limoncello

Rum cake with limoncello

January 1, 2010 · Desserts; · (7)

We don’t keep dark rum in the house but, often, there is an open bottle of light rum in the fridge for making mojito which we love. The bottle of Bacardi in the fridge caught...  (more...)

Rainbow cake

Rainbow cake

June 5, 2009 · Desserts; · (13)

Remember the zebra cake? Toward the end of that entry, I mentioned that I wanted to use the same technique for making a tri-colored and tri-flavored cake — a red, green and...  (more...)

Caraway seed and orange marmalade cake

Caraway seed and orange marmalade cake

May 16, 2009 · Desserts; , · (12)

I read somewhere that seed cakes are usual in England to celebrate the end of spring. We don’t have spring in Southeast Asia but I love seed cakes and I don’t have...  (more...)

Zebra cake

Zebra cake

May 11, 2009 · Desserts; · (32)

A zebra cake is basically a chocolate marble cake. The difference is in the pattern. Instead of the marbling created by running a knife through randomly dropped blobs of vanilla...  (more...)

The perfect custard cake

The perfect custard cake

March 9, 2009 · Desserts; , · (135)

If you think that’s too much custard and too little cake, you’re wrong. That is the perfect custard cake according to my husband. In fact he made me promise that that...  (more...)

Banana walnut cake

Banana walnut cake

December 28, 2008 · Desserts; , · (41)

(Updated) Moist but not dense, this banana cake is light, not excessively sweet and there’s the added pleasure of getting some crunch from the walnuts and the streusel topping....  (more...)

Strawberry streusel cake

Strawberry streusel cake

January 25, 2008 · Desserts; , · (19)

According to Wikipedia, the term streusel (a German word meaning “something scattered or sprinkled”, from the verb streuen, akin to the English verb ’strew’)...  (more...)