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One of the best things about having an apple tree is being able to go in my own backyard to pick apples to make a cake. I have quite a weakness for apple cake, especially when the apples are crisp and sweet. So, in honor of my tree and the many apples it has bestowed upon us for apple slices, apple tarts, apple butter, and, yes, apple cakes, I'd ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Fruit, Baking, Southern States, Fall Yesterday I wrote about muscadine grapes, which include a coppery green variety known as the scuppernong. Well they've been on my mind all week. On Tuesday, I stood in a friend's mother's backyard around sundown, fending off mosquitoes as I plucked heavy handfuls of scuppernongs ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, Celebrations As the resident cake baker in my circle of friends, I'm always trying to find something new and funky to make. I've been in a groove of no-cook fondant and marzipan figures, but this summer I got a challenge -- chocolate. Not being the biggest fan of chocolate cakes, I mostly stick to the many ...

I've had this cake on my mind for some time. It has been years since I've eaten one-- not since childhood. I remembered it as being sticky and sweet, delicious and remarkably easy to prepare-- that is, I do not remember anyone ever slaving over the making of a Pineapple Upside Down Cake.

''Figs?'' she asked, ''What about putting a little pomegranate molasses in them?'' She took me into the kitchen, and poured two slow-moving drops of the stuff onto the end of a fork and put it in my mouth. It was a flavor new to me-- sweet, sour, full of depth. It was exactly what the figs needed to make them interesting without taking over the ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Newspapers, Europe This week, the New York Times Magazine's The Way We Eat column is devoted various types of syrup-soaked semolina cakes and pastries. In Macedonia, these desserts are known collectively as siropiasta. Revani and samali, both made with semolina and ground almond, are served drenched in sweet liquid - ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, Memorial Day, Summer The Cupcake Project is a huge contributor to the Slashfood Flickr pool. But because I don't want to express favoritism among our flickr posters, I try to limit my Cupcake Project posts to about one a month. And what better way to celebrate the upcoming Memorial Day weekend than with ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Fruit, Baking Did this just happen? Did Gretchen Noelle over at Canela & Comino seriously just post a recipe on Slashfood's Flickr account that combines two of the world's best known food groups, cake and pie? (Er - and fruit, too). You'd better believe she did. This pake (cie?) melds the sweet, juicy fruit ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, Food Oddities, America, Retro cookery Flipping through my Campbell's Soup cookbook this afternoon, I stumbled across one of those recipes that makes you stop and marvel at the creativity of the human brain. Because it takes a certain kind of person to think, ''Gee, I think that tomato soup would be the ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, On the Blogs The Jewish High Holidays started last week. As with most holiday celebrations, a large part of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur (once you're done fasting and atoning) and Succoth is the food. My mother's family is Jewish, but of such a secular nature that there have been times when ham has appeared on ...