Tag: cakes

If I had to choose a breakfast cake, it would be almond cake. If I had to choose a cake to eat an entire day, it would be almond cake again. My reasons are threefold: it is nutty and distinctly aromatic, it is moist and buttery, and it fills you up and keeps you going for hours.

The apple ring cake or the apple ciambella gives you that much needed hug — it envelopes your senses with all that apple goodness, holds you tight with its fresh flavour and lush aroma, lifts you and promises to not let go. It’s Italian, you see. Bene, no?

The caramel banana cake is creamy, soft, moist, rich, caramelly, finger-licking, indulgent, and simple. That feeling you get as you bite in and indulge? It’s pure bliss. You won’t make it because you’re suddenly left with more overripe bananas than you can handle, but because you’ll crave more caramel banana cake than your stomach can handle.

Try this cheerful golden fella and you’ll wind up with smiles and warmth and a desire for more coconut pineapple upside down cake. The taste is so familiar yet much more exotic: the marriage of caramelized pineapple with fragrant toasted coconut will take you by surprise.

This smooth operator is a far cry from the usual banana cake: luscious yet delicate, intensely moist yet elegant. The Cordon Rose Banana Cake is definitely a magnificent banana cake — the flavour, aroma, texture and taste are delicately refined and enhanced.

Sticky, spicy and rich in flavour, fruits, and marzipan, this easy Simnel cake for Easter is lighter — in texture and colour — than the Christmas fruit cake.

This cake will draw you like a siren with one whiff, without the bells and whistles (read: icing). It’s simply that glorious! It’s light, not too dense, it's moist, and simply delightful. You won’t feel heavy after you eat it, making it a perfect tea cake. Or an anytime cake. It is epic, after all.

Your house swells with the nutty and lemony fragrance of the Catálan Salt Pinch Cake, and as you transfer the cake to cool, you’ll marvel at how soft and billowy it seems; and as you pinch off a velvety piece, you’ll marvel at its yieldingness; and as it caresses your tongue, you’ll swoon over it’s delicate and nutty almond flavour, and moist yet airy texture.

This golden almond cake almost dissolves in your mouth — it’s soft and moist, and bursting with nutty flavour, and more importantly it has a beautiful crust. It’s the perfect cake for when you are entertaining because you can serve it with fruit and chocolate — more dessert for everyone.

Sour cream ganache gives your cake just the right amount of oomph and tang, making it indulgent, smooth and charming. It pipes like a dream, and makes all those chocolate cake more sensual. Chocoholics, look out for this absolutely magnificent and indulgent sour cream ganache — it’ll take make your tongue pirouette!

This luscious and caramelly Karmel Cake demure deep golden brown cake holds all the fanfare of caramel inside of it, making it (duh!) lusciously moist and soft, delightfully caramelly, and gorgeously light and airy.

The pineapple upside down cake is warm and comforting, addictive, and disappears fast. The bright and sunny top is caramelly, crunchy a great way to eat pineapples. This pretty pattern gives way to a creamy and buttery crumb base — made moist by the yolks and butter. Together, it is cake nirvana.

The 2 cups of zucchini pack in so much moisture, the raisins add to that and make for little pockets of joy, the taste simply amazes, and the spices provide a kick that you’ll love, that you begin to immediately enjoy and love this wild child: the real cool zucchini cupcakes.

This scrummy and moist classic banana walnut loaf is so soft inside and smells like a toffee dipped in cinnamon. Ah, heaven! Make this golden powerhouse tonight, and you’ll enjoy eating it the next two days for breakfast. The surge of energy it provides will last until your next meal.

With just a hint of spice and almonds, this sticky orange marmalade cake is gorgeously tender and moist, and refreshingly light and warm. The citrusy fragrance that fills your house while the cake bakes is intoxicating, as is the taste of this sticky orange marmalade cake. I just can’t stop eating it!

The quality of the strawberry rose jammy cake is divine. It unfolds like a drop from heaven upon your tongue. It is twice blessed: it blesseth him that bakes and him that eats. ’Tis delicate yet sublime. A strawberry cake is delicious, but when seasoned with rose petals and jam, is majestic in its essence!

Presenting, the queen of all carrot cakes! She’s highly evolved, zesty yet sensual, spicy yet sweet, full of character yet delicate. Her fruity zesty countenance and her heavenly aroma bind you in a trance. Try the best carrot cake recipe ever — you’ll look at every other carrot cake in disdain!