‘Twas the DH’s birthday this past weekend, so I made him a cake. I asked him what kind of cake he would like; strawberry, he said! So a strawberry cake I made. It was a three-layer cake, and had strawberry-buttercream icing between the three layers, and as the crumb coat, and then the outside was frosted…
Archives for March 2015
BCM: Lemon-Glazed Madeleines and Changing Things Up
Usually when I make a recipe for my bake-a-long group, I tell myself after the fact that I should have halved it, because the recipe always makes more than the DH and I should really eat by ourselves. However, for today’s recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi, I actually quadrupled the amounts! Instead of only…
Memories of Meals Past: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing. And Fibre.
Continuing along with my throwback Thursday series, Memories of Meals Past, here is today’s contribution: Last week was my mother’s birthday, so I baked her a cake. She’s not really one for your typical extra-fluffy-sugary-sweet-icing birthday cake, so I made her a carrot cake. My parents had come over to our end of the city…
Vegetarian (or not) Meat Hand Pies with a Vodka Crust
So. These meat pies are soooo good! Hot out of the oven, with a meaty, saucy filling, in a flaky, golden crust, or straight out of the fridge for a quick snack or lunch, they’re tasty both ways! The recipe makes 6 hand meat pies, or 1 full pie. If you make a standard pie…