This Cherry Crisp is what I made when my oven quit working.
I baked it for 40 minutes, and the cherries were nicely cooked. The top got a little too dark but I think that was because the thermostat quit working at some point during the baking time. I noted to check it after 35 minutes just in case.
It’s a cake!
Yes, time for another cake.
I’ve recently baked two, actually, but I’ll post them one at a time.
This cake also involved the first butchering of one of my big blue pumpkins.
Details follow the recipe.
This cake is from the recipe, Pumpkin Bundt Cake, posted in the New York Times. I can’t look at it … Continue reading.....
I’ve posted this before – but ’tis the season and all so I thought I’d do it again.
For anyone looking for a quick, easy holiday dessert this is it….
As everyone knows, I don’t do pie crusts, therefor no pies, specifically, no pumpkin pie.
I prefer fruit, anyway and I love cranberries. I did a cranberry cheesecake one year … Continue reading.....
Pecan Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting….
And Caramel Sauce….
And Butter Pecan Ice Cream….
Okay, that all may be a bit excessive. Maybe if I made desserts more often I wouldn’t attempt to put it all on one plate at the same time.
It could be ‘gilding the lily’.
Or it could just be really, really good.
I received no … Continue reading.....
We were invited to an Auberge Español last week, at the home of some new French friends.
Auberge Español is French for potluck – at least in our area.
Why a potluck is called a ‘Spanish Inn’ I have no idea… I think it has something to do with a 2002 movie of that name about a French student in … Continue reading.....
My mother baked cakes.
She baked wedding cakes and groom’s cakes and birthday cakes.
Birthday cakes were always Angel Food.
I tried to explain Angel Food Cakes to a Belgian friend. It was a bit difficult as I have never made one and Europeans don’t have cakes as such, like Americans do. Cakes here are more like fruitcakes in the … Continue reading.....
I didn’t think we were going to have a big plum harvest this year.
We walk past our biggest plum tree every morning, and, every morning, Guapa searches the lower branches for fruit.
She loves plums; she wasn’t finding any..
So I didn’t plan on making jam, or really doing much of anything with them this year. A few weeks … Continue reading.....
I made another cake.
Which, of course, means we had another dinner party because that is the only time I bake cakes.
I think I have found my niche as far as cakes are concerned: fruit and bundt pan.
In another life my specialty was Devil’s Food Layer Cake with Fudge Frosting but I am no longer going to subject … Continue reading.....
