A rich and buttery vanilla almond cake made from scratch with fine quality ingredients just like an old-fashioned Seduction Cake — and it needs no frosting! ooohh! Continue reading
The New and Improved Mary Todd Lincoln Vanilla Almond Cake Recipe
Category Archives: Elegant Country Dessert
Old-fashioned Holiday Cake Frosting Recipe and a Berry-Berry Filling
Looking for the best classic old-fashioned cream frosting for your holiday cake? We’ve got you covered in vintage cake style. And how about a holiday cake filling made with cranberries, strawberries and buttercream, oh yeah! Pure white cake and frosting elegance with a sweet double berry filling — that’s what special old-fashioned holiday celebrations are all about. Continue reading
River House Whipped Cream Cake Recipe
Our Vintage Whipped Cream Cake recipe is a simple and delicate holiday cake filled with a sweet filling of pureed cranberries, strawberries and buttercream (that we call Berry-Berry Filling). It’s frosted in classic style with an old-fashioned silky Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting. What could be more charming for your holiday festivities than a simple and elegant homemade classic? Continue reading
Hibiscus Syrup and Hibiscus Vanilla Custard Recipe
For the series finale of this double-decker vintage Italian Lovesong Cake, we come to the highly unusual and ever-so-fascinating Hibiscus Vanilla Custard recipe that crowns the Italian Sour Cream Cheesecake that is wrapped in a homemade cookie crumb crust — that sits atop a vintage Boiled Milk Cake frosted with White Chocolate & Cream Cheese Frosting, presented with the recipe and instructions for homemade Hibiscus Sweet Syrup. Continue reading
Italian Sour Cream Cheesecake for the Italian Lovesong Cake
Old school fancy elegant Italian Sour Cream Cheesecake recipe wrapped in a homemade cookie crust for the double-decker Italian Lovesong Cake! Continue reading
Boiled Milk Cake for The Italian Lovesong Cake
The Italian Lovesong Cake — a cake-upon-cake cake with an old-fashioned Boiled Milk Cake (Torta di Latte Caldo) on the bottom, double-decked with an elegant cheesecake (Torta di Latte Formaggio) that is wrapped in a Ladyfinger Cookie Crumb Crust, and dolloped center stage with a wildly unique Hibiscus Custard. Continue reading
Serving The Casanova Charlotte Russe
The Casanova Charlotte…an elegant Genoese Sponge Cake filled with Heirloom Frosting, topped with Wild Blackberry Baviaran Cream and wrapped in a double fence of homemade Ladyfingers! Recipe and step-by-step photos in a 4-part series. Continue reading
Marco Polo Cake
An Italian caramelized profiterole cake made with 100 petite choux pastry puffs filled with sweet mascarpone, ricotta and whipped cream. Each cream-filled puff is dipped in homemade caramel sauce then stacked into a magnificent hollow dome, drizzled with candied caramel sauce and swirled with strands of angel hair caramel. Continue reading
