Remembrance Cake — The Good Luck Peach Cake

Funeral Cake Vintage Peach Cake BakeThisCake

Good Luck Peach Cake also served as a Remembrance Cake: Dark, rich vintage cake re-defined with fresh grated peaches, white chocolate bits, fine-chopped almonds and coconut, and served with an old fashioned Sour Cream Vanilla Frosting. 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

Five Buck Slow Cooked Family Meal for FIVE

Think you can’t cook a nice meal for a family of 5 with 5 bucks? Take the $5 Slow Food Challenge and make homemade whole wheat pasta with chicken and spinach. Oh yeah! Continue reading

Creme Anglaise for The Casanova Charlotte

Creme Anglaise, a creamy vanilla custard sauce, to drizzle over each slice of The Casanova Charlotte. Continue reading

Bavarian Cream Mousse for The Casanova Charlotte

Wild Blackberry Bavarian Cream Mousse in our blog series on The Casanova Charlotte: A 4-layer Italian Genoese Sponge Cake layered with Wild Blackberry Heirloom Frosting, surrounded by a double-high fence of homemade Ladyfingers that is filled with Wild Blackberry Bavarian Cream, dotted on top with fresh berries, oh, and drizzled with Creme Anglaise (Vanilla Custard Sauce). Way! Continue reading

Italian Genoese Sponge Cake with Wild Blackberry Heirloom Frosting

Step-by-step for our blog series on this cake: A 4-layer Italian Genoese Sponge Cake layered with Heirloom Frosting and topped with chilled Wild Blackberry Bavarian Cream Mousse, dotted with fresh raspberries and blackberries, wrapped in a double fence of homemade Ladyfingers and drizzled with Creme Anglaise (Vanilla Custard Sauce). YO! Continue reading

Homemade Ladyfingers for the Way-Wild Blackberry Charlotte Russe

Homemade Ladyfingers step-by-step for our blog series on the Wild Blackberry Bavarian Charlotte Russe: A chilled 4-layer Genoese Sponge Cake layered with Heirloom Frosting and topped with Wild Blackberry Bavarian Cream Mousse, dotted with fresh local raspberries and blackberries, wrapped in a double fence of homemade Ladyfingers and drizzled with Creme Anglaise Vanilla Custard Sauce. Continue reading

Cream Puff Kids – A Delightful Vintage Mini Cream Puff Recipe – Skill Level EASY

Mini Cream Puffs filled with whipped cream Photo by Leslie Macchiarella

It’s time to party with kids and cream puffs. It’s fun, it’s easy, it brings a lovely vintage recipe back to life…and, best of all, it brings the family together for some yummie baking time. Continue reading