Lemon Polenta Cake
I love this cake. I wanted to find a recipe for a cornmeal cookie when I came across recipes for this classic Italian dessert. I originally printed out Nigella Lawson’s recipe to try, but I didn’t want to pour a lemon syrup over my cake. I just added the lemon right into the batter and ended up with an amazing pound cake with a crumbling texture and lemon kick, that’s incidentally entirely gluten free! I guess I like dense cakes. This one definitely competes... Read More
Savory meet Sweet. You guys could really get along – Olive Oil Cake
I have a new favorite cake in this world. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t make it for my choice of birthday cakes. Birthdays are for special occasion foods and I’m making this cake WAY too often for it to be a special occasion cake. It’s more of an everyday cake (if there really were such a thing). It’s an eat-another-piece-for-breakfast kind of cake. It’s an I-like-savory-way-more-than-sweets kind of cake. That’s what drew me to it in... Read More
Reasons for Cravings – Plum Tart
I’ve been looking for a reason for my sudden otherwise inexplicable foray into baking so many cakes and pies this season. I had thought it was just the inspiring selections from my always-pushing neighborhood fruit stand guys. These plums were irresistible with their freckles looking like a map of the universe on their glowing purple skin… but that doesn’t really explain it. As I stand by my counter cutting through my bounty I begin feeling the comfort of the... Read More
