Category Archives: Desserts
Sweet Potato Chocolate Torte with Walnut Custard Filling
An unusual cake that uses mashed sweet potatoes and ground walnuts with eggs for the batter. Filled with a walnut custard and topped with a chocolate glaze, it’s rich and tender but not overpowering. And now it sounds like a skeezy romance novel hero.
Kid’s Cookbooks and Trunchbull Cake
A recipe for “The most scrumptious cake in the entire world” and a roundup of the kid’s cookbooks and recipes I grew up making. Do you have a favorite childhood cookbook or recipe?
Marci’s Jack O’ Lantern Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft and chewy, with big silly smiles these are pretty irresistable cookies. You can make them just as chocolate chip cookies or you can make them as jack o’ lanterns to match the pumpkin flavor or you can do half and half, making faces until you’re bored and speeding through the rest of the batter.
Citrus Sukkot Cake
Here’s another cake recipe, this one a nice bright moist lemon cake. I like cakes that don’t require frosting because they’re tasty enough on their own, though this is more like a pound cake anyway.
Guinness Chocolate Cake and Ice Cream
This is the matured version of the Irish Chocolate Cupcakes I’ve made a few times – it’s been adapted from the Barrington Brewery to Bon Appetit to Smitten Kitchen to … Continue reading
Bananana…. Baking with Bananas
Discount bananas have been inspiring me to bake, but there’s only so much banana bread one family will want to eat. So this includes three recipes: banana bread, banana scones, and banana cake.
Apple Cranberry Cobbler
With lots of other projects keeping me busy, I may only be baking on Sunday mornings for a little while. As I’ve mentioned in the last two cake posts, I’m … Continue reading
Marbled Chocolate Orange Cake
This was one of those cakes that had me struggling not to lick my fingers as I mixed it up, going back for seconds right after the first slice, then … Continue reading
Ginger Ale Spice Cake
Our church just started a cultural studies series on the Feasts of Israel and I’m providing festive Jewish food to go along. Until we get into the specific feasts, I’ve … Continue reading
S’Mores Cheesecake
This may not be as “American as apple pie” but it’s close, and a lot less work to put together. I made this last for our community garden’s bake sale, … Continue reading
