Not one, but two Dutch Apple Cakes with a thinnish coat of Brown Sugar Buttermilk Frosting. It’s free apple season, lots of apples from local trees, and that means use them or lose them. Last week it was apple oatmeal crisp and today these cakes. I had a bee in my bonnet about maybe buttermilk … More Dutch Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Buttermilk Frosting with Recipe
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
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
I had a couple bananas which needed to be used, the usual choices didn’t appeal and I’d had a dream, one of those “I’m in a bakery in Parkland” dreams. There’s no such bakery but I’ve gone there in a dream many times, seen something and the next day I’d either written it down during … More New! Pineapple Upside-down Banana 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
Having just returned from a wondrous and joy-filled 75th birthday trip to Salt Lake City sponsored by my daughter, life in Bitter Lake returns and so does Thursday afternoon Chinese mahjongg with my lady friends. While there will be a little birthday party next week for the “mother” of our local mahjongg, I decided for … More Cranberry-Strawberry Upside-Down Cake with My Recipe
I asked my friend and neighbor what kind of cake she’d like for her birthday on July 15th. To my surprise, she said spice cake with caramel frosting. We talked about divvying it up with other cake lovers nearby and she said, not excited in the least, “I suppose it should be a sheet cake.” … More 2 Birthday Cakes: Spice Cake with Caramel Frosting, AKA Penuche!
Hah! Another post where the photos will tell most of the story. In the beginning, there was plain brown sugar and butter caramel beneath the simple Dutch Baby batter on a day when I didn’t have syrup and didn’t want lemon/powdered sugar or jam on top. Then I tried it with sliced pear and a … More Caramel and Fruit Upside-Down Dutch Baby Pancakes with Directions
I’ve been thinking about making my corn-syrup-free caramels with a bit of espresso for a while, and since I make some kind of caramel for the Christmas goody bags, 2017 has become the year for another original candy from my kitchen. Homemade caramels, soft, so full of flavor, so Mmm. First the molasses. Then the … More 2. New! juliyya’s Seattle Espresso Salted Caramels
I thought we were going to be in full bake-sale mode this afternoon, but it turned out that’ll be next weekend rather than over the Memorial Day holiday. Since we would have been rushed for time to make and decorate both cupcakes and cookies, I had gone ahead and made the frosting for the cupcakes … More In the kitchen with juliyya: Chewy Caramel Peanut Butter Chip Bars
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