Author: Naomi

Triple Citrus Bars

Triple Citrus Bars ~ Lime, lemon and orange all your favorite citrus baked into one blissful bite.

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I love a good tart and tangy lemon bar, but I have a few friends who don’t like them because of their extreme nature in tartness. Well Folks, you’ll be happy to know this is a bar for everyone. It’s a great compromise for those who are less inclined toward the tart and still a delightful treat for those that fall on my side of loving anything lemon from mild to extreme tart.

You can find the recipe for these Triple Citrus Bars at CooksIllustrated.com (only for a limited time though-see notes). A bit of a pain to make but wonderfully delicious, and a pain only, only because I don’t have a good juicer so it’s always a lot of work for me to juice anything, but the rest of the recipe is a breeze. Continue reading Triple Citrus Bars

Mother’s Day Tea Cakes

Mother’s Day Tea Cakes ~ Pretty tea cakes to impress the moms in your life.

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Mother's Day Tea Cakes
Let me start by saying, I have the skills of a dancing elephant when it comes to piping. So what is baker like me suppose to do? Uh, cheat and use forms to create the rose and use a brush to paint some flowers. Athough, I don’t think I quite have the right consistency for buttercream painting yet. More testing on the painted buttercream-when I get it right, I will let you know.
Sorry for the short post. Work is wreaking havoc on me this week. My job has been restructured luckily for the better, but I’m still adjusting. Continue reading Mother’s Day Tea Cakes

Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis

Perfect Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis ~ A perfect pound cake made untraditionally with cream cheese. Yes, really, cream cheese and it’s so good! Add the strawberry coulis and you will be rhythmically tapping the plate as you scoop your next fork full.

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Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis

Seldom do I get a request from my family for any dessert. That being said, a request was placed for some pound cake and prefaced with, “Nothing fancy, just plain buttery pound cake”. Keeping things plain should be simple enough, right? But somehow that’s like asking a sprinter to walk—I just couldn’t help myself.

Strawberry season has begun and fresh from the Farmer’s Market was a basket of beautiful strawberries intended for some Strawberry Shortcake testing. But the request was opportune, as I remembered just recently seeing abunsinmyoven’s recipe for Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis that I wanted to try.

Intrigued by the cream cheese portion of the pound cake, I decided to tie everything together: Pound cake for the request while testing a new recipe and a touch of dress-up with the coulis.

The only thing I added to the recipe was the lemon cream cheese glaze. I added the glaze because I like the balance lemon gives to the buttery taste of pound cake- just a personal preference. Of course, you can bypass the glaze, the pound cake taste great without it.

A few notes:
1. Go to http://bit.ly/cdrixG for the recipe.
2. This can be made four days in advance (without the finishing glaze) and keep it wrapped tightly with plastic. Continue reading Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis

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