Simple cakes that can be eaten as is with seasonal fruit are very appealing to a person who has no sweet tooth (me). I call them “amiable cakes” and I’ve posted a few examples in the past. This one, from Nigel Slater’s brilliant book, Appetite, is one of the best. (He’s a hoot – check [...]
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Apricot Almond Cake
Posted in Cake, Uncategorized, tagged Apricot almond cake on April 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Paper Chef: Nectarine Upside-Down Cake with Green Tea Ice Cream
Posted in Berries, Cake, Paper Chef, Sorbet, Stone fruit on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
With the ingredients nectarines, cornmeal, almonds and green tea for this month’s Paper Chef, I immediately thought of an upside-down cake that I used to make — every summer it seems — but forgot about in the last couple of years. I’ve made it with both plums and nectarines. Nectarines are in full season now, [...]
Dorie’s French Yogurt Cake Glazed with Lemon Basil Jelly
Posted in Cake, Herbs, Preserving, tagged Lemon basil jelly on May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On Memorial Day, while I was planting lemon basil in my garden, I remembered that I’ve been wanting to make a French yogurt cake from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking from my Home to Yours. What’s the connection? She glazed her cake with lemon marmalade and I’ve been thinking that a glaze is the perfect use for [...]
Apple Cake
Posted in Apple, Cake, tagged Apple cake on October 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I started making this rustic cake when I was in graduate school and appreciated the fact that it economically includes about half the amount of butter and eggs of other cakes of this size. The recipe makes a seemingly small amount of stiff batter compared to the volume of sliced apples, but once the apples [...]
Another Amiable Summer Cake: Plum Torte
Posted in Cake, Stone fruits, tagged Plum torte, Summer cake on August 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last month I posted a summer cake that I adapted for raspberries, cherries and blueberries. It had a buttermilk batter and a light crumb. This month, we have plums among other stone fruit that it stouter than the berries, calling for a somewhat stronger cake base. This is pretty classic as a basic cake and, [...]
The Most Amiable Summer Cake
Posted in Berries, Cake, tagged Cherry cake, Raspberry cake on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a very quick summer cake that has appeared all over the Internet in the past year, maybe even earlier. It was published in the much loved but now defunct Gourmet Magazine about a year ago. It was called Raspberry Buttermilk Cake and I admit to having made it with raspberries, blackberries, cherries, and blueberries, [...]
