Cake Pop Birthday
Make a nice chocolate cake – a simple genoise. Let cool. Use a spoon or small ice cream scoop or melon baller and make the cake into balls. Form then firmly onto a lollypop stick. Dip each ball into a tempered chocolate ganache. And let cool slightly. Roll the warm
Lemon Blueberry Olive Oil Cake
My old recipe for an olive oil (instead of butter) cake was a gluten free one, but was always a little flat, and gummy. I added more eggs – six – to try to increase the loft, and add a little spelt flour, but still didn’t love the texture.
Nan’s Birthday Cake
June 1 – Lecture at the Lensic For Nan’s birthday month, we went to hear photographer,Chris Rainier (Cultures on the Edge), at the Lensic, after having drinks at Hervé Wine Bar – best white wine: 631 Malvasia-Riesling; red: D.H. Lescombes Limited Release Cabernet Franc. We sampled the tuna tartare –
Caramel Sauce – Small Batch
Enough caramel to put a spoonful or two on a flourless chocolate cake: 1/4 cup warm cream 2 teaspoons butter 1 T water 3/8 cup sugar or 6 T – turbinado sugar is great pinch of good salt, vanilla if desired Warm cream in a deep saucepan, pour onto the
Everyone’s Dream Bars
From Rose’s Christmas Cookie book comes the recipe for David’s Dream Bars, which we’ve always called Stuie’s Dream Bars because they are my husband’s favorite of all the Christmas cookies I’ve ever made. They are my son’s too and instead of changing the name repeatedly we can just agree that
Beet & Pear Cake
Birthday Cake made for a friend Pat said her Kindle got her through the pandemic and so it was the decor of this sheet cake made for a summer evening, outdoor birthday party, and served with Lemon Olive Oil Ice Cream. Moist like a carrot cake, red like a red
Lemon Olive Oil Ice Cream
Lemon Drops for the Beet Velvet Cake Made the day of the birthday party around noon, these round ice cream balls filled silicone balls that we use to make ice cubes. I cut the ingredients in half, from the New York Time recipe for Lemon Olive Oil Ice Cream because
Chocolaty Cake
Ingredients: 5 oz baking chocolate (Caillebaut) 1/2 cup mild olive oil 90 g fine organic sugar 2 eggs extra egg whites 5 oz baking chocolate (Caillebaut) 1/2 cup mild olive oil 150 g pastry flour (Sonora White) sifted 2 g. chopped chocolate or chips Melt chocolate in oil, slowly. Preheat