Black Cake
Black Cake is the ubiquitous Caribbean Christmas cake made with dried fruits and soaked in dark island rum for up to a year before baking.
Read MoreBlack Cake is the ubiquitous Caribbean Christmas cake made with dried fruits and soaked in dark island rum for up to a year before baking.
Read MoreApple Pie or Apple Cake? There is simply nothing more like the taste of home than a slice of apple cake. Or apple pie. Or apple tart/ crisp / buckle/ flan/ crumble or cobbler if you will. With early autumn comes the apple harvest, so there was no other choice for Autumn than to feature […]
Read MoreCake for breakfast? Well yes, actually! I wanted to include a cake in our jaunt around the world that is served up at breakfast time, perfect with a nice strong coffee and some fresh fruit. And we no look no further than Brazil. The Bolo de Fuba is a traditional breakfast cake (although in truth […]
Read MoreSo I’ll be the first to admit that snake cake doesn’t have the most appetising ring to it. 🙂 M’hanncha is the Moroccan word for snake and one can only guess that the name for this exotic, sweet pastry comes from the coiled spiral of its shape, rather than the serpent lurking within. What is M’hanncha? […]
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