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The Best Dessert You Will Ever Eat. EVER.: Chocolate Bread Pudding

The Best Dessert You Will Ever Eat. EVER.: Chocolate Bread Pudding

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

Lemon-Filled Vanilla Cupcakes

Lemon-filled vanilla cupcakes filled with a homemade lemon curd and topped with an easy vanilla American buttercream frosting.

Peach Upside Down Cake

Peach Upside Down Cake

 
Two of this weeks’ desserts break my cardinal guideline of no fruit in dessert. I say guideline because by making it a “rule,” I’ve faced countless comments of censure from my apparently hard-nosed friends. Therefore, I take a book out of Captain Barbosa’s book and say it’s a guideline.  One which I pretty much always follow.  Except on my birthday, but then, rule or guideline, it’s meant to be broken. With this peach upside down cake.

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This Cake is Legit. Lapis Legit: Spekkoek, or the Thousand Layer Cake

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…

Macadamia Nut Brittle Ice Cream

Macadamia Nut Brittle Ice Cream

Macadamia Nut Brittle Ice Cream is a nod to the famous tart of the South Pacific, with brittle and shortbread through a coconut base.

Fijian Honey Cake

Fijian Honey Cake

After yesterday, I needed something a bit more normal, so I made cake.  Because when times get tough, let them eat cake and this Fijian Honey Cake came out great. 

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Faikakai Malimali, which obviously means: Banana Dumplings with Coconut Syrup

Faikakai Malimali, which obviously means: Banana Dumplings with Coconut Syrup

So…I bought this coconut… After reading all the recipes from Tonga, I thought I needed to buy one. Turns out, what I could find packaged and canned was fine enough. That’s great, but now what do I do with this coconut? I supposed since I…

Raspberry Linzer Cookies

Raspberry Linzer Cookies

Raspberry Linzer cookies are a delicious sandwich cookie with an almond flour base, filled with jam, dusted in powdered sugar.

Swiss Carrot Cake (Aargauer Rüeblitorte)

Turns out, Switzerland is more than just chocolate.  This Swiss carrot cake (Aargauer Rüeblitorte) tells us so.

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Baci Ice Cream

Baci Ice Cream

Baci ice cream starts with a creamy, homemade chocolate base and folds in those classic Italian chocolate candies for texture.