Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Cornmeal & Berry Cakes

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I made this week’s recipe for Tuesdays with Dorie (Cornmeal and Berry Cakes) twice. It’s so simple and a great way to take advantage of summer’s bounty of berries! Dorie’s recipe calls for making four mini loaves but here in France I don’t have mini loaf pans so I improvised both times.  The first time,  I made 6 cupcakes using one quarter the recipe – these were lovely and light and fluffy and the lemon glaze helped keep them moist for a couple of days.

The only problem is you can’t fit in that many berries when they are this small…

The next time I made the recipe, I made the full-sized recipe for a Bastille Day dinner which went down a treat. Again, no loaf pans so I made one round cake which worked pretty well…

Lemon glaze, lemon zest and more fresh berries topped this off perfectly. I’ll be making it again – it does lend itself to any sort of berry and I’d love to try with blueberries – I think it would look so pretty!  This is a winning recipe – light and flavourful with a subtle crunch from the polenta. Also, highly adaptable in terms of the pans you use to bake it in as well as the fruit you use.

Get the recipe for Dorie’s Cornmeal and Berry Cakes here or on p 154 of Baking Chez Moi.

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