I have a major sweet tooth. HUGE. It’s why I insisted when I started this blog a year ago that I do at least one dessert from every region. I mean, by limiting myself to the familiar (sticky toffee pudding, chocolate cake), I would have…
Easy Thai Fried Bananas couldn’t be easier- with bananas and egg or spring roll wrappers drizzled in a chocolate peanut butter sauce
Due to an unexpected day of fun in South Bend to watch some college football, my weekend got cut a bit short. Unfortunately, my to-do list did not, and I spent most of yesterday cooking, cleaning, and laundry-ing. Mostly cooking. On that to-do list was…
Not surprisingly, Malaysia has some pretty interesting sweets. Today’s dessert, onde onde, is a sweet pastry type cookie and a popular snack in Malaysia and Indonesia. However, unlike those French concoctions of buttery goodness that may come to mind, these little nuggets are made of…
I’ve mentioned, I think, more than once about how much I love bread. I love it so much that I wish I could live in a house made of it, with a nice crusty roof and pillow-y walls that I could reach out and eat…
Lemon-filled vanilla cupcakes filled with a homemade lemon curd and topped with an easy vanilla American buttercream frosting.
Peach Upside Down cake uses the best of the summer season with caramelized peaches and sugar and a simple white cake, to really let the peaches shine!
Well, here’s something different, but also pretty amazing. It’s a broiled cake. Yup, you read that right. Broiled. But how can that be, you ask? Lucy, let me ‘splain. Spekkoek, or Spiku, today’s dessert, is a Dutch-Indonesian cake, and a fine example of the influence…
Papuan banana cake is a personal twist on Papua New Guinea’s traditional banana cake, popular at establishments country-wide.
Cassava pudding is a traditional dish from the Solomon Islands using local ingredients cassava, sweet potato and coconut milk, steamed in banana leaves.