Chocolate Spongecake

Ingredients & Directions 3/4 c Sifted cake flour 1/4 ts Salt 4 tb Cocoa 1 tb Lemon juice 5 Eggs, separated 1 c Sifted sugar Sift flour, salt and cocoa together 4 times. Add lemon juice to beaten egg yolks and beat with rotary egg beater until thick enough to hold a soft peak. Beat […]

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Chocolate-swirl Cheesecake

Ingredients & Directions -CRUST- 7 oz Chocolate cookie wafers; -(about 27 cookies) 1/2 c Husked toasted hazelnuts; -(about 2 1/2 ounces) 2 tb Sugar 1/4 c Unsalted butter; melted (1/2 -stick) FILLING 1 6 ounce pack semisweet -chocolate chips 2 8 ounce pack cream cheese; -room temperature 1 c Sugar 4 lg Eggs; room temperature […]

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Apple Cake 1

Ingredients & Directions 1 1/2 c Veg Oil 1 ts Soda 2 Eggs 1/2 ts Salt 2 c Sugar 1 ts Cinnamon 2 T Vanilla 3 c Diced Apples 3 c Flour 1 c Nuts Cream OIl and Sugar, beat in Eggs and add Vanilla, Sift in Flour, Soda, Salt and Cinnamon. Add nuts and […]

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Popped Millet Griddle Cakes Or Waffles

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Uncooked millet 1 c Unbleached flour; -all-purpose 1/2 c Corn flour; or stone ground -cornmeal 1/2 ts Baking soda 1 ts Baking powder 1/4 ts Salt 1 tb Sugar 2 lg Eggs 1 1/2 c Buttermilk 1 ts Vanilla extract 2 tb Vegetable oil; or melted -butter Butter; for the […]

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Lake Garda Apple Cake (torta Di Mele)

Ingredients & Directions Unsalted butter AND Grated zest of 1 lemon All purpose flour for 3 lg Eggs, AT ROOM TEMPERATURE -preparing the baking pan 1 1/2 c All purpose flour 8 tb Unsalted butter, AT ROOM 3/4 ts Baking powder -TEMPERATURE 1/4 ts Fine sea salt 1 c Vanilla sugar 1/2 ts Ground cinnamon […]

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Thin Mint Cookie Cake

Ingredients & Directions 6 oz Butter 1 c Sugar 1 Box GS Thin Mint cookies (1 cup crumbs for cake) (1 cup crumbs for topping) 2 tb Cocoa 1/3 c Cake flour 8 Eggs, separated 8 oz Chocolate 1/4 c Heavy cream Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a […]

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Golden Saffron Cake

Ingredients & Directions 1 tb Butter,softened 2/3 c Non-fat milk 1 ts Saffron threads 1 1/3 c Cake flour 1 3/4 c Sugar 1 ts Baking powder 1/2 ts Baking soda 1/4 c Thawed frozen non-fat -Egg substitute 2 tb Rose water 1 1/2 ts Vanilla 3/4 c Water 1 tb Chopped pistachio nuts Brush […]

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Cj’s Simple Carrot Cake

Ingredients & Directions 3/4 c Raw sugar 1 1/2 c Wholemeal self-raising flour 1 1/2 c Grated carrot Lots of mixed spice – CJ -uses whole of “small -packet” of Harper’s (15 -g??) Chopped pecans or walnuts -(“pecans are better”) – -quantity not specified -EITHER- 3/4 c Canola oil and 2 Eggs —OR— 1/2 c […]

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Red Velvet Cake With History

Ingredients & Directions 2 1/4 c Cake flour 1 ts Baking soda 1 ts Salt 1/4 c Baking cocoa 1 1/2 c Sugar 1 1/2 c Oil 2 Eggs 2 ts To 1 oz of red food color 1 ts Vanilla 1 ts White vinegar 1 c Buttermilk Frosting: 1 pk 8 oz cream cheese […]

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Leprechaun Spice Cake

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Brown sugar 1 c Water, hot 1 c Guiness,warm(or more water) 2 tb Margarine (soy) 15 oz Raisins 1 ts Salt 1/2 ts Cloves 1 ts Cinnamon 1/2 ts Nutmeg 3 c Whole wheat pastry flour 1 ts Baking soda 1 ts Baking powder Bring sugar, water, Guiness, margarine, raisins, […]

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