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Gâteau à l’Orange … Orange you glad I made this?
“Orange is the happiest color.” Frank Sinatra Tweeting always has sweet surprises on the deck! The wonderful and talented SaffronBerry girl, found this orange cake when the Persian in her became obesessed about finding an orange cake recipe. As she said, “You’ll know we’re a bit obsessive and weird about our citrus fruit. We hoard it, display it, eat it, drink it, preserve it, dry it, cook it, and I’m sure we’d bake it too if there were a tradition like that of Western baking in Iran, heck we’d probably wear oranges and lemons if we could find a way to.“ I absolutely adored the way she summed up her…
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C is for Christmas , C is for CAKE… always room for cake
“Nutty as a fruitcake” Always room for cake in our little home, and winter screams fruit cake, a cake we love to enjoy from December to February. This is the time for an annual tradition at our place. As long as I can remember, my mother always baked this cake over the Christmas holidays, year after year. It became part of our life, something we looked forward to every winter. Gradually it became a holiday favourite, and with vacation madness came to be known as New Year Cake as it never got made in time! Then I got married, and slowly baking passion took over my life. Gradually Mom stopped…
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MINI PEACH, CHERRY & BLUEBERRY GALETTES with almonds -Little bites!
“Yield to temptation — it may not pass your way again” Lazarus Long Do you get hypnotized by certain posts. I’m afraid I’m afflicted by this strange phenomena, but I love it. And it kicks in whenever I see a post with galettes, the sweet ones, full of fruit. I find galettes to be very ‘free spirited’….…in the sense that they don’t need to conform to boundaries, something that is reflective of my inherent nature. I like my freedom, I like rustic & moreish appeal, so I like galettes. Inspiration continues to come from unexpected sources. Been twittering with Edna’s Cafe for really long, & so one fine day decided…
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Chocolate Espresso gateau … my kind of indulgence
“I never entertain wicked thoughts…Wicked thoughts entertain me.” Anonymous ‘Twas my parents anniversary a week ago & being the designated baker there was little choice but to bake a cake. But living life in the unglamorous fast lane, all my fault, is never easy, & I talked my mother into agreeing that the cake could be given a pass. The eleventh hour plunged me into guilt, & I had an hour & a half before fetching the kids from the bus-stop after school. The easiest was going to be a Swiss roll. The recipe firmly ingrained in my memory…3 eggs, 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup powdered sugar…I hit the kitchen…
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GLAZED PRUNE CAKE…SPICED UP FOR SHF!
“winter dusk the rhythm of her knife chopping fruit and nuts” Elizabeth St. Jacques I had a bag of prunes looking at me for ages. Sometime last week, when the weather began to change, getting cooler by the day, I was in a mood for experimenting on the baking front. Surfing the net gobbled up hours as usual, but gave me a match for a prune cake. I liked this recipe on Recipezaar & the reviews too, when I read them, though the glaze had me a bit sceptical. A milk glaze for heavens sake? Threw my thoughts to wild abandon, & plodded on with the cake. Turned out to…
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CITRUS MAKES ME HAPPY…TANGY FRESH LIME CAKE
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.” Frances Mayes, Bella Tuscany CITRUS is Tartelettes’ chosen flavour for this months’ edition of Sugar High Fridays , a monthly event created by Jennifer of The Domestic Goddess. One of my favourite flavours, I find myself using ‘citrus‘ , mostly lime, every single day, in one way or another. No day is complete with a squirt of lemon, or a splash of orange. It’s quite amazing how international a flavour citrus is. We’re talking marinades, salad dressings, desserts, chutneys, cookies, cakes, sauces, pickles, preserves…the list seems endless.…
