I first made this luscious rich chocolate cake which truly is lighter than air for Valentine’s Day. For V-Day I also dipped some strawberries in chocolate. I was testing desserts to make for an upcoming class I held last week on Passover Desserts…The tag line being… Some say Passover desserts are boring and tasteless…Sheila will…
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Lighter-Than-Air 3 Layer Chocolate Cake (Passover Desserts Never Tasted So Good)
I first made this luscious rich chocolate cake which truly is lighter than air for Valentine’s Day. For V-Day I also dipped some strawberries in chocolate. I was testing desserts to make for an upcoming class I held last week on Passover Desserts…The tag line being… Some say Passover desserts are boring and tasteless…Sheila will…
Dorie’s Last-of-the-Bunch Banana Bundt Cake
This scrumptious Banana Bundt Cake comes from Dorie Greenspan, a well known cookbook author, cook and baker extradorinaire. Her newest book, Everyday Dorie, comes out today. I haven’t seen it yet, but Dorie describes it as filled with over 125 simple recipes which you can make with supermarket ingredients you’ve got in your pantry and…
Lemon Sponge Cake
Every fall The Jewish New Year begins with a 10 day period of prayer and self-reflection which is ushered in on Rosh Hashanah, and closes on Yom Kippur, or what is better known as The Day of Atonement. We were traveling for the beginning of the New Year, (more about that later), but were back…
Plum Crunch
We ushered in the Jewish New Year recently with many of the traditional sweets symbolizing our hopes for a sweet year ahead… …apples and challah bread dipped in honey, (apples and honey from the wonderful local farmer’s markets), my apple cake, my favorite honey cake, and the pastry/cookies called rugelach, which I haven’t posted as…
Babette Friedman’s Apple Cake
Today marks two weeks since we celebrated our son and daughter-in-law’s fantastic wedding held at the Rancho Valencia Resort north of San Diego! It was a beautiful, joyous, and fun-filled weekend shared with close friends and family, and truly was a reflection of them and the love they share. Rancho Valencia’s Mediterranean-inspired setting includes flowerbeds of…
Sweets for a Sweet New Year
The Jewish New Year begins this coming Sunday at sundown. As is tradition it is a time to celebrate by eating sweet foods symbolizing wishes for a sweet year ahead. In anticipation of the holiday, this past Sunday the San Luis Obispo Jewish Community Center / Jewish Federation sponsored its first “Apples and Honey Festival”…
Strawberry Shortcake for the Fourth of July!
Happy Fourth of July ! I had to make these fantastic shortcakes after reading about them in the recent grilling issue of Bon Appetit. We’ve all had various forms of strawberry shortcake. Pound cake, sponge cake, angel food cake, and biscuits are commonly used as the base for this special summer dessert. Actual…
Cherry Pecan Streusel Coffee Cake
I recently served this delicious Cherry Pecan Streusel Coffee Cake for a brunch we hosted for friends. I was searching the net for a bundt coffee cake which incorporated dried tart cherries, and discovered this recipe on Food 52. Note: However, the contributor on Food 52 omitted several ingredients from the recipe and…