Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
(Original Post Date: April 27, 2010) One of my most favorite lemon recipes (besides the Extra Tart Lemon Bar Recipe I posted previously), is this Rustic Lemon Cake made with cornmeal. The cornmeal gives the cake a slightly “rougher” texture, which goes nicely with the tart sugary glaze. The combination of the lemon sugar glaze (which [...]
(Original Post Date: March 23, 2010) There are several food blogs that I love to read. On one site, I found an interesting looking recipe for Chocolate Matcha Bundt Cake. What is Matcha? Well, it’s a very strong powdered form of green tea, traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies. Prepared in that manner, it is rather bitter, [...]
(Original Post Date: March 4, 2010) After returning from a trip to the Caribbean, my sister-in-law and her husband gave us a Tortuga Caribbean Rum Cake, a specialty of the Cayman Islands. It was vacuum-sealed in plastic, packed inside a hexagonal cardboard box. How good could a vacuum packed cake really be? We found out one [...]
(Original Post Date: Feb 15, 2010) Happy Lunar New Year! Yesterday marked the beginning of the year of the Metal Tiger. I’m not a big fan of fireworks, but since most Lunar New Year celebrations incorporate the color red prominently, I decided to celebrate this occasion instead with some Year of the Tiger Red Velvet [...]
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