by Helen Kain | May 15, 2020 | Holiday, Home, Recent, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Sweets
The honeycomb pan for this cake has been lurking in my cake pan cupboard for a couple of years, waiting for its debut. Once the Bee plate table started to percolate, out it came. But first I had to do some research on the ultimate cake batter for this tricky...
by Helen Kain | May 9, 2020 | Holiday, Home, Recent, Recipes By Season, Spring Recipes, Sweets
Our neighbour’s flowering cherry tree is just breaking into bloom. For a few glorious days, its graceful branches festooned with pink blossoms toss in the wind, beguiling us with their beauty. (I will skip over the subsequent unholy mess of disintegrating petals...
by Helen Kain | Apr 12, 2020 | Breakfast, Fall Recipes, Holiday, Recipes By Season, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Sweets, Winter Recipes
Baking is a very soothing activity. Baking bread with scads of butter, sugar, cinnamon, and nuts is the epitome of soothing. Baklava Pull-Apart Bread came to me along a somewhat circuitous path, as frequently happens with my food inspiration. During this strange time...
by Helen Kain | Jan 26, 2020 | Sweets
Earlier this month, we invited some friends over for dinner at the Cape, and I wanted to make a dessert that was somewhat virtuous but with a hint of decadence. (The nearly universal donning of the January culinary hair-shirt gets a bit depressing). I thought about...
by Helen Kain | Dec 9, 2019 | Christmas, Sweets, Winter Recipes
Ever since I laid my hands on “Hello, Cupcake!”, Irresistibly playful creations anyone can make, by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, I’ve been dying to make the White Wreath. The project really is as easy as the blandishments in the book claim....
by Helen Kain | Nov 29, 2019 | Sweets
I’ve always been a fan of Sticky Toffee Pudding with its dense cake and luscious caramel sauce, so I was eager to try this lighter, caramel-custard version with its drool-worthy trifle presentation. I took it to a friend’s house recently as a contribution...
