Remember Quarantine Bread, the simple and basic “No-knead” bread? Ingredients are stirred up in a bowl, covered with plastic wrap and a towel and thus started in its first rise the night before it’s flipped onto a floured mat in the morning, gently kneaded a few times to shape it, popped into a parchment-lined Dutch … More Whole Wheat Quarantine Bread, Sugarless Raspberry Jelly for a Birthday
While today, the 14th of September, is my birthday, I baked this delicious Banana Cake with Toasted Walnuts and Ermine frosting to celebrate the birthdays of two other women as well as myself, all of us within a few days of the other. We’re also all participants in Music Night and I like to celebrate … More Happy Birthday to Yumiko, Lisa and Me
Hummingbird cake is composed with bananas, crushed pineapple in its juice, roasted pecans and, typically, cream cheese frosting. Because the cake itself is quite sweet, I decided to make the butter version of classic Ermine frosting, meaning without shortening. The frosting is lighter in sugar content and fluffier than cream cheese frosting. (Leftover ermine frosting … More Hummingbird Cake with Ermine Frosting
Most Americans who make pineapple upside-down cake use Maraschino cherries (if they use cherries to decorate this type of cake) in the middle of canned pineapple rings (or tidbits or crushed pineapple) over the butter and brown sugar in the bottom of the cake pan. For example, see this post* of a birthday cake I … More Pineapple & Amarena Cherry Upside-down Cake
The resident lady who hobby is our flower gardens has a birthday today. She likes lemon cake so I made a 3-layer lemon cake, fresh lemon curd and lemon cream cheese frosting. I couldn’t help myself, though. I had to decorate with Washington cherries from Rainier Fruit. And guess what’s out hopping around the lawn? … More Happy Birthday to Our Gardener
My Honey Rose Caramels (which didn’t capture the rose flavor because honey won the battle for first place) and the Lemon Butter Cookies went on a trip to a ranch and a special birthday girl who trains rescue dogs, is a beekeeper and a very busy mother and wife. I even found a tin appropriate … More Honey Rose Caramels and Go-along Cookies
In a previous post, I told the “discovery” story of how I’d found and used Trader Joe’s Caramel Sea Salt Baking Chips in several of my own and one family recipe.* Last week I made cookies for my sister and niece (who had a birthday), and froze some dough to make a dozen for my … More Caramel Sea Salt Chip and Walnut Cookies
February 13th is the birthday of a native Alaskan man who lives in the Manor and who occasionally accepts a slice of cake or a cookie when I find him in the community room with his Tablet. I decided not to make chocolate because one of my Mahjongg ladies cannot have it and I thought … More Caramel Apple Cake and Trader Joe’s Caramel Sea Salt Baking Chips Review
As I wrote on my Instagram: My friend Dom’s birthday was on the 4th. I missed it but said I’d make him a cake for the next time I see him. What kind would he like? Chocolate. What kind of frosting? Chocolate. So tonight I made his Belated cake and a Spare because I’ll see … More When you miss a friend’s birthday, make a Belated Cake
Today is my sister Laurie’s birthday, but Maria and I celebrated with her aunt yesterday and I brought along the Jubilee Jumbles she’d requested rather than cake when I’d asked for her preference. It’s all about the frosting. I asked her if she wanted the browned butter frosting which the original recipe uses or perhaps … More Penuche on A Classic Cookie For A Birthday
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