Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
Summertime means seeing a whole host of fruits that I would generally not see in the stores for the rest of the year. Stone fruits are the ones I look forward to most: peaches, nectarines, apricots, and plums. Yummy, yummy fruits that make their appearance for only a couple of months during the year. And […]
It was one of those days when liqueur was needed, but not for making chocolates! Hpnotiq liqueur, pictured below, probably does have exotic fruit juices as described on the bottle, but the primary flavor for me was the taste of refreshing grapefruit. Mmmm good. This blue concoction is the brain child of Raphael Yakoby and […]
While I am a fan of quick breads and Bundt cakes, particularly the ones that include chocolate chips, I am becoming more and more attracted to Polish-style coffee/snack cakes. What could be so different? First and foremost, Polish coffee cakes tend to be low in the sugar department. Yet they still taste good. There are […]
In my baking world, nothing spells Spring more than a lemon cake. And when it comes to lemon cakes, few top the rustic charm of the British Lemon Drizzle Cake. I baked a Lemon Drizzle Cranberry Bundt Cake for Christmas, but cheated by using oil instead of butter. This time around, I wanted to make amends […]
We bought a double-pack of JIF peanut butter while at Costco the other day. We aren’t big peanut butter eaters, but I thought the kids were due for a peanutty change from Nutella. But what to do with all of this peanut butter?! Of course, I thought, let’s put it in a cake! But since […]