Family favourites (old and new)
This is a mash up of Smitten Kitchn’s Invisible Apple Cake, Well Seasoned Studio’s Impossibly Easy French Apple Almond Cake and Pinch of Mint’s 1000 Layer Apple Cake which has orange zest and juice in it. A mandolin is very handy for this but for …
This is my adaption of Easy Yogurt Cake but I used self-raising flour so I didn’t add extra baking powder. I also added the zest and juice of half a lemon and topped it with Cream Cheese Glaze. Ingredients 1 cup plain yogurt, room temperature …
This lemon olive oil cake is adapted from Yumna Jawad’s (Feel Good Foodie) Olive Oil Cake. I used self-raising flour and added some ground almonds for texture and upped the lemon juice. Ingredients 1 ¼ cup self-raising flour ⅔ cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup ground …
Every now and then I come across a recipe that I don’t tinker with (much) because it’s perfect just the way it is (and I happen to have all the ingredients (ha)). The Italian Almond Plum Cake from Bon Appetit is it. Because I live …
It’s Mother’s Day and I decided I wanted a treat and I’ve had a bottle of rose water that is woefully underused. So, I started hunting around for something to make and stumbled on this Persian Love Cake from Broma Bakery. However, I also had …
I learn lots of things at book club. Two of them are that my friend Liz reads more books than anyone else I know and that she hates Christmas cake made with that nasty industrial candied fruit just like I do. But we both love …
Chocolate Quinoa Cake is moist, chocolatey, gluten free and dairy free (if you want it to be). It’s a combination of Best Ever Quinoa Chocolate Cupcakes from Epicurious and Chocolate Quinoa Cake from Lorraine Elliott’s blog, Not Quite Nigella, with a bit less sugar and …