Cakes
29th Wedding Anniversary «Knowing you will be with me in all my tomorrows, makes my today so wonderful». On Saturday morning I was still feeling terrible after three days of flu so when my husband asked me if I needed anything from the supermarket I knew that I wanted to make a cake for our [...]
Continue reading about Spicy White Chocolate Cake with Caramelized Bananas
I found this recipe here on The Food Network.com with extremely high ratings and since I have been seeing a lot of Tyler Florence recipes in the blogoshpere, I had to see for myself what this was all about. I must say I was not disappointed, although the caramel made the pie extra sweet, too [...]
Isn’t she beautiful? Thanks to Farida who made the original cake and it has been so popular ever since. Mine is not as perfect as Farida’s but it tasted great and impressed my guests who ate it. Although I was planning to post something else for today,my today’s post calls for celebration, so I am [...]
Orange flavoured cake must have been the first cake I learned to make from my mother and then my daughter learned this cake from me as well. A few days ago I read at Life’s feast a Blood Orange Yoghurt Cake and although I never used to like blood oranges (probably from the name) I [...]
This recipe started when I had a very ripe banana to use. At first I thought to make some cupcakes and noticed that I did not have any eggs at home so I remembered my vegan cupcakes I made during Lent but still since I did not have some of the other ingredients as well, [...]
Continue reading about Chocolate and Ginger Cake, with cream cheese glazing
How would you feel if your birthday was during Lent and you could not have a Birthday Cake? Unfortunately this is something I had to face many times as apart from my birthday, my daughter’s birthday is a few days before mine and my son’s is exactly a month after mine, so in all three [...]
Fasting for Easter was not something we were looking forward to when we were young maybe because the older generation used to cook the same Lenten dishes, over and over again, mostly dried legumes and seasonal vegetables. Now you can find all sorts of fresh or frozen vegetables year round and you have cookbooks, food [...]
I am really sorry if I have not visited most of you this past week but as I have already told you my sister is staying with us and I have been working on this post for a whole week, mostly early in the morning, in order to be able to post it. I prepared [...]
I have made a Revani recipe before but there are a lot of variations to this recipe, each one having a character of its own. A blogger friend of mine in Facebook sent me a picture of a dessert she ate when she visited Greece but could not remember the name and wanted me [...]
Continue reading about Revani or Ravani with Cream Cheese Frosting
Why would I by posting a Nectarine Cake in the middle of winter? Nectarine is a medium-sized stone fruit – a variety of peaches or a mutation of the peach bearing fruit - (Prunus persica) with a smooth red and yellow skin, firm yellowish-pink flesh and a peachy flavour with undertones of almond. Commonly showcased [...]
