Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
A summer cake that I remember from my childhood with much delight is a simple yellow cake baked in a large, rectangular pan, topped with seasonal fruits, such as a blueberries, cherries, or plums. If we spent the day at the community pool, this cake would routinely be packed in my lunchbox. Easy to pack […]
Here is a vintage cake that has risen up to the top of my pile of go-to coffee/Bundt cakes: the hot milk cake. It is like a light pound cake, or perhaps it can be called a sponge cake alternative. The key to success comes from melted butter mixed in hot milk. When joined with […]
This is probably ranking as my no. 1 coffee cake recipe so far. It results in the best tasting peach-blueberry cake EVER. I can’t emphasize this point enough. In my family, half of it was eaten by just two people within 15 minutes of serving. I had to hide the rest away so that the […]
My mom’s fruit salad that rounded out my parents’ backyard picnics during the hot days of summer has got to be one of my fondest memories from my youth. I remember that my mom got the initial recipe from a pack of recipe cards that were sent to her as a preview for a subscription […]