I made this week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen a couple of days before I left for my holidays – it’s a pretty easy baba cake – a small yeasted cake typically served soaked in rum and topped with whipped cream. My favourite version comes from Stohrer in […]
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Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Swedish Visiting Cake Bars
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was perfect for my entertaining needs this past weekend. Dear friends were driving through Toronto and had made plans to stop to see me around 2pm so I thought what better than to greet them with some baked goods (and rosé, local strawberries and cheese and […]
French Fridays: Carrot Cake from My Paris Kitchen
This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was one I’ve tasted, but not made, before. David’s carrot cake was made for one of my Cookbook Book Club meals back in 2016, by Jan, and I’m glad I’d had her experience making this to guide me. This is a HUGE […]
Upside down peach cake
This post is sponsored by Gay Lea. For this month’s Gay Lea post, we’re talking about “Farm to Table”. Appropriate really since Gay Lea is a Canadian dairy products co-operative owned by over 1,200 farmers. I don’t often get to visit a farm but I do try to do the next best thing and that’s […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Double-Corn Tea Cake
This week, the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was an interesting take on a tea cake. Completely gluten-free (well, nearly in my case, I was 5g short of the right amount of corn flour so I topped up with all-purpose, am sure it wouldn’t have made a difference but you never know…), […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Martine’s Gâteau de Savoie
This week, the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi, was one I’ve been intrigued to make for quite a while. It’s the SIMPLEST of recipes – with just eggs, sugar, vanilla and flour – which is always great to have in your back pocket, right? A gâteau de Savoie is a French version […]
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