What a great invention.
My friend Linda recommended purchasing these pre-but rounds when we were in King Arthur Flour in Vermont last month. I’m so glad I did. I used them for 3 – 8 inch layers for two family birthdays in November.
https://youtube.com/shorts/VMa4ZrBbROs?si=IKgYDL55bo4FWWrB
Short Video on YouTube
And this cake was a Brown Mountain Cake from Farm Journal. I added vanilla buttercream frosting. The buttermilk is a key ingredient!
A friend at exercise class gave me sourdough starter and a basic recipe. I learned why she advised don’t use tap water. Filtered or Spring water. The chlorine in the city water can kill the yeast (or at least slow it down.)
I’ve been feeding the starter refrigerating it when I’d leave town, take it back out and feed it again and was planning to bake sourdough bread.
Today was the day. I used a ln enameled cast iron bread baker that Jen S and I bought from Aldi last year.
I took a book out of the library through the Libby App online and renewed it tonight.
If you like cheesecake you will like this simple recipe.
Recipe from Ann Walling, my dad’s church secretary at St.Paul’s Morris Plains NJ 1960-1970
Beat until smooth
1 pound cream cheese room temp
3/4 C sugar
3 eggs
1 t almond extract
Bake in a buttered pie plate at 350 until done (knife in Center comes clean) about 45 min
Cool 8 minutes -center will sink
add topping
Mix and pour mixture into center indentation
1 C sour cream
3 T sugar
1 t vanilla
Return to oven for 10 minutes
Easy Cinnamon Rolls from scratch recipe
Need to keep practicing my baking skills.
My paternal grandmother, Mary Alta Hendricks’ recipe box. No fewer than five recipes for rolls. Lots of baking cakes. There are Crisp Pickle Chips, a few prize winners clipped from a newspaper one from 1950. I’ve posted some before but I like to touch and read them, find her friends’ names in pencil- Lucille Roberts, Ruth Kiest, Vesta.
Four years ago I posted about my friend Kristin’s husband Rick baking bread and showed her recipe box with a poem in the lid.
Today I’m sharing more of the contents as my friend Vincie suggested recipe cards after a post a couple of months asking if you still use cookbooks
I plan to bake the Orange Cake.
My friend Jen gave me a lovely large jar of Bonne Maman jam which was perfect for the Split Second Cookies Recipe.
This morning Jen came over and we had coffee and eggs. I gave her a couple of the jam filled logs wrapped in foil. Apricot and Four Fruit Preserves were the two flavors I used.
After you bake the cookie all at once, when they are cool you slice them.
They are a dense buttery shortbread with the fruit jam in the middle.
From 9 years ago
Did some research for a Portuguese dessert and this cake came up in two places. Recipe for Orange-Olive Oil Cake. “This Portuguese orange olive oil cakehas an unforgettably tender crumb and a citrus smack thanks to fruity olive oil, winter navel oranges, and orange zest.”
I went across the Allegheny River to Labriola’s and bought a new Zoe Olive Oil as recommended in the recipe. Fresh eggs. And five navel oranges were five dollars at Whole You-Know-What.
Zested three oranges and squeezed four to get 1 1/2 c of juice.
Used a tube pan as I did not have a light colored bundt pan. Baked it 1 1/4 hours.
Make it at least a day before serving. I did.
Will let you know what the verdict is after Friday night dessert. I usually don’t make a new recipe to share, untested.
January 8 2025- it was absolutely delicious I need to bake it again
I put it on a glass cake stand after it cooled.
Original Plum Torte Recipe by Marian Burros debuted in 1983. It’s an annual ritual as summer comes to a close and the Italian Plums are perfection. You need twelve, cut in half.
After an almost nine hour train ride from Pittsburgh, we arrived in NYC just before five and when we got to Mary’s she had all the ingredients prepared. Prema placed the plums on top of the batter. sprinkled the cinnamon sugar on top.
Nine years ago I posted a plum torte
Make a Cake Pittsburgh.
99 Rochester Road.
A supply store for cake and candy making. You should see all the possible colors of sprinkles for sale.
There are hundreds of cookie cutters to choose from.
Been there a couple of times recently for birthday cupcake supplies.
