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  • Recipe Cake of the Week: Mystery Ingredient Chocolate Cake
    Cake of the Week: Mystery Ingredient Chocolate Cake
    OK guys, this cake has a mystery ingredient. No, I won?t tell you what it is. You have to try it first. (I learned from my Mama?s mistake involving a zucchini apple crisp ? make people try it before telling them what?s in it!) I?ll[...]
  • Recipe Secret-ingredient cake
    Secret-ingredient cake
    Here's a fabulous recipe from All You , the magazine where I work. Usually at photo shoots none of us eat much of the food being shot -- but when we shot this cake, we all couldn't stop eating it! It's a simple one-layer cake, perfect for[...]
  • Recipe Mystery Ingredient for Red Velvet Cake
    Mystery Ingredient for Red Velvet Cake
    Leslie Christiansen gave us this fabulous historic recipe. She commented, "I've taught both recipes at the culinary school. They are just a little bit different- I modified the one for the cupcakes. The cake batter looks dark maroon before[...]
  • Recipe A Rich Chocolate Cake (fat free and with an unexpected ingredient)
    A Rich Chocolate Cake (fat free and with an unexpected ingredient)
    - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMY!!! - - My mummy is my best friend and the most beautiful woman in the world! (I?ll bet your mom is the most beautiful woman in the world to you too? unless well? you think she isn?t) Mummy turns[...]
  • Recipe A Sensational Cake with an Unsensational Secret Ingredient Reputation - from The Pioneer Woman Cooks
    A Sensational Cake with an Unsensational Secret Ingredient Reputation - from The Pioneer Woman Cooks
    When I first discovered The Pioneer Woman Cook's blog-- around October 2008, I was hooked.  Little did I know that a couple of months later, I would start my own food blog.   I think what I found so intriguing about Ree's style[...]
  • Recipe Gingerbread, Mascarpone, and Plum Tart (+ Blogger Secret Ingredient Announcement!)
    Gingerbread, Mascarpone, and Plum Tart (+ Blogger Secret Ingredient Announcement!)
    When Zoe asked me to host this week's BSI, it didn't take very long to decide on an ingredient. I had just gotten back from the Greenmarket , where I was so excited to see the first of this year's plums ! I think plums are a very versatile[...]
  • Recipe Basbousa (Semolina Cake)
    Basbousa (Semolina Cake)
    I grew up eating semolina for breakfast. Mum used to make it like porridge, and sometimes she would put a raw egg yolk in the bottom and then pour the hot semolina over top which "cooked" the egg, and gave the semolina a very[...]
  • Recipe Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake
    Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake
    Many of you have heard the saying that "Lemon is my Chocolate".  I like chocolate, but lemon is what makes my taste buds very happy.  When I think of lemon, I think of a clean and refreshing taste.  Plus, I think lemon is one of[...]
  • Recipe Pioneer Woman's Strawberry Shortcake Cake
    Pioneer Woman's Strawberry Shortcake Cake
    I had a productive day in my herb garden and kitchen. I made four new recipes! I've decided to postpone Part II of my day at the special event for sustainable seafood -- it's been a while since I've blogged about a new recipe. Tonight's[...]
  • Recipe Ina Garten's Easy Cranberry & Apple Cake
    Ina Garten's Easy Cranberry & Apple Cake
    While I enjoy making savory dinners, there is always room for dessert.  There, I said it.  I like dessert.  I don't eat dessert every night.  But once in a while I like to keep an arsenal of quick dessert recipes, for when[...]