It’s Christmas everywhere and in the Philippines no other treat says Christmas more than this rice cake. It’s available year round in most places. During the Christmas season, churches everywhere will have vendors setting up shop in the wee hours of the morning. These vendors will be selling bibingka or puto bumbong and cooking them [...]
The recipe I used for this cake was actually not a good choice. It’s called a Kentucky Butter Cake and I found it in the website www.allrecipes.com I have to admit I was impressed with all the positive feedback the recipe generated. It’s just too sweet for our taste and if I ever do this [...]
This is a very basic carrot cake iced with a cream cheese frosting which I used for the “white cake” I wrote about in my last post. I tweaked the recipe to my taste and think this will be my keeper recipe. I just love this cake for the spice, the moistness, the crunch of [...]
I purposely looked for this recipe after we went to the Greek Festival here in Colorado Springs last summer. There was this particular cake that I really loved and just guessed what it was. When I saw this recipe, I think I had it. It’s a walnut cake laced with citrus syrup after it’s been [...]
This experiment was a success, if I might say so myself. The cupcakes had that very delicate pandan flavor…not at all overpowering as I thought it would be. I meant for the green and pink tints to be much lighter but that can be corrected next time. The recipe is based on a Vanilla Cupcake recipe from that [...]
The combination of raspberries with chocolate is a recipe for the most luscious desserts or cakes. I previously featured a cake recipe with these two main ingredients. It failed in the aesthetics department but certainly was perfect in every other aspect. There’s the sweetness of the cake, the bitterness of the chocolate and [...]
This cake was a big surprise. Despite the knowledge that butter cakes are always good cake recipes, this was outstanding. I didn’t even bother to sprinkle any confectioner’s sugar on it for the photo after I tasted a crumb from the pan. No embellishments for this cake…a cup of tea, coffee or a [...]
Don’t you just admire those people who can decorate cakes like it was the easiest thing in the world to do? Magic, blessed hands…. Unfortunately, I’m not one of them. Here’s my latest sorry attempt at cake decorating. I can bake it and it tastes great, but does it look that way? Never mind… Looking [...]
You’ve seen the pan, now here’s the cake…ta-dah! Did you notice the cake is lopsided? You wouldn’t have noticed if I didn’t say a word, right? Not so bad. The cake was great whichever pan you used. Can’t really go wrong with a combination of pear and rhum. This recipe is based on a Pear [...]
