Eat Beautifully.
This Double Peach Cake + Toffee Sauce is rich, dense, buttery, and the perfect way to celebrate an excess of peaches! I think adding pureed or grated fruit/vegetables to cake is one of the best ways to ensure that the cake turned out soft and dense(the two most important cake qualities, in my book). This…
This Coconut Meringue Rice Pudding + Cardamom Poached Grapefruit is fresh and light, sweetened with a meringue, and topped with a cardamom-scented poached grapefruit syrup. It also happens to be dairy free. I remember making and loving a recipe for rice pudding ages ago that involved folding whipped egg whites into the chilled pudding mixture…
I’m ready for everything to be green – it’s been bare and drab outside for long enough and I’m longing for life to come back to the earth. This cake is my welcome to spring! Coated in bright green pistachio, layers of pistachio cake are sandwiched with a floral, fruity frosting. I used a rose…
What is Saint Patrick’s Day without a little Guinness? This chocolate cake has a mild stout flavor melded with deep rich chocolate. It’s rather moist and dense, which is a bit of a must for me. The frosting is salty and has the option of being bumped up a notch with a little Irish cream….
This post for Irish Cream Eggnog is brought to you in partnership with Saint Brendan’s Irish Cream. All words and opinions are my own. There’s a first time for everything and this Year I’m adding the making of homemade eggnog to the list. I grew up pulling the thick, sweet, butter yellow store bought version…