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 […]
The Victoria Sandwich is a British classic that I keep coming back to whenever I want to serve a light party cake that is guaranteed to be enjoyed by all. The cake came into being in the mid-1800s and soon joined the afternoon tea ritual. The cake is named after Queen Victoria who is known […]
For a kid-friendly potluck reception, I signed up to bring cake. How I came to this choice was not a straight path. The occasion was a potluck reception after a piano recital where my kids were performing. In thinking about what I could bring for the reception, I put myself in the kids’ shoes. All […]
A while back, I shared my family’s Polish plain honey cake recipe. It’s a delicious yet simple honey cake that I serve each year for Christmas and New Year’s. It seems to be atypical as far as honey cake recipes go because there are no spices added to it. More recently, I’ve found that a […]
November is spiced pumpkin month in my house! That means spiced pumpkin cakes in some form or another nearly every weekend. [I secretly prefer pumpkin cake to pumpkin pie! Shhhhh.] I have a few posts involving pumpkin: Spiced Pumpkin Bread Glazed Pumpkin Bundt Cake Pumpkin-Stuffed Coffee Crumb Cake Pumpkin-Chocolate Bundt Cake To bring variety to […]