Hello, friends. My family is still somewhat under the weather and I'm short on blogging time, so this week I'll share my new favourite cake. It's based on this grain-free almond layer cake recipe with a few little changes: increasing the butter slightly, replacing milk with orange juice, adding orange zest. This makes an incredibly fragrant, not-too-sweet cake. When both filled and frosted with … [Read more...]
Our house cookies
Hello, friends. The past couple of weeks has been oddly temperate, for Kingston in July: cool at night, sunny and warm by day. To my mind, during weather like this, the obvious thing is to bake up a stash of treats against the return of our usual heat and humidity. The recipe below is not mine. It belongs to French pastry chef Pierre Hermé and American food writer Dorie Greenspan, and while … [Read more...]
V is for… vegan?
The following post has nothing at all to do with Victorian London, Mary Quinn, detective fiction, or, indeed, books. Instead, it's a recipe for Lian. These muffins are dairy- and egg-free, but moist and fluffy and delicious nonetheless. A prefatory note: this is a North American recipe in which ingredients are measured pseudo-scientifically in cups. By volume, a cup is 250ml/8oz. A cup of flour … [Read more...]