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Delicate & Delightful Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake … it’s #Pinktober
Some cakes are delicate, soothing, calming, and some cakes are wickedly delicious and satisfying. This Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake is all that and more, all these beautiful adjectives coming together in one dessert.
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Coffee & Vanilla Bean Layered Cake …Happy Birthday to me
this is what dreams are made up of. Coffee in a birthday cake has become a quintessential part of my birthday, a flavours that inspires me like no other. Light as air vanilla and coffee layers of cake sandwiched with delicious whipped coffee cream make for a perfect dessert. Make a day ahead if you like. The tastes mature beautifully!
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Baking | Dorie Greenspans PEAR VANILLA & ALMOND FRANGIPANE TART … Thanksgiving
Warm and comforting, delicious as can be, a pear, vanilla and almond frangipane tart from Dorie Greenspans 'Baking From My Home to Yours'. Just right for fall, just perfect for Thanksgiving!
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Vanilla Chocolate and Chocolate Walnut Eggless Cake … back to the basics
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden It’s time for the Daring Bakers and this time I have to say I’m sorry I couldn’t keep a date with the challenge. My kitchen is ‘under attack‘ {read renovation}, and things are still in disarray. What should have been completed last week is yet to be done, dragging on frustratingly. That’s not to say I haven’t managed to sneak in a bake now and then, but I couldn’t manage the chocolate dipping stage etc of the challenge. I did have a LMP {last minute plan} with some clarified butter on hand. Thought I could…
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{No Bake/Frozen} PEACH-GINGER & PLUM-VANILLA GRANITA … bidding adieu to stone fruit
Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper. Carol Adams I’m really really gutted and you might wonder why. I feel as if I lost the first prize and walked away with the consolation prize. At the heart of my misery is my rather late discovery of the granita. Have actually contemplated making it quite often, but never with such a sense of urgency until I saw this post on House of Annie. I was generally googling for something fun and refreshing to do with the last plums and peaches of the season, and this particular post had me gaping! Annie had made…
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{No Bake/ Cooler} PLUM LEMONADE!
If life gives you lemons, and you are lucky enough to have plums too, …make plum lemonade! I bookmarked this the minute I saw it. The summer through, I keep a pitcher of fresh lime juice waiting for the kids when they come back from school, exhausted from the severe heat and looking for cool respite. They absolutely love fresh lime juice and guzzle it down hungrily, greedily sucking at the ice cubes in the end. When the Indian phalsa berry season was on, they enjoyed this phalsa cooler, and once in a while they luxuriated with a tall glass of peach ice tea {from a mix unfortunately}. Home made…
