Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
This is one of my favorite chocolate cake recipes! Interestingly, it calls for no eggs and no dairy for the cake portion – which makes it easy to make with basic pantry ingredients (in addition to being vegan). This cake recipe was very popular during the Great Depression (since it could be made without expensive [...]
Recently, I’ve been reading a lot about this “3-2-1 cake” online… It’s supposed to be a really easy single serving cake to make in the microwave using a rice bowl or a mug (which is great if you don’t want to have an entire whole cake lingering around your kitchen). **Cough** …portion control… **Cough** (You [...]
Apfelkuchen is a traditional German/Austrian apple cake. It’s very simple, as it calls for only basic pantry ingredients. You can “dress it up” a bit by adding raisins, walnuts, whatever you like – but I think the apple flavor stands out the best without these additions. This cake makes a wonderful dessert than can be [...]
On our recent trip to Florida, we picked up some “taste of Florida” Tortuga rum cake sampler packs. The sampler pack contained three flavors: Florida Orange, Key Lime, and Coconut. The Florida Orange Rum Cake was my favorite… and for the low price of $26.95… I could have another one mailed direct from the Cayman [...]
I still have a ton of raw field pumpkin in my refrigerator & freezer, leftover from my Halloween Jack O’Lanterns. Since then… I’ve made pumpkin streusel bread, warm pumpkin pudding cake, pumpkin pie cupcakes… and I’m now officially sick of pumpkin! No more pumpkin flavored treats!!! Blech! And now, for something completely different…. How [...]
Do you still have leftover Jack O’Lantern (field pumpkin)? I still have about 2 pumpkin’s worth of raw field pumpkin in the fridge… and besides making “pumpkin bread“… what else could I make with it? Well, a few days ago, pineapple was on sale for $0.88 each at the market… so why not combine the [...]
There is such a thing as having too much zucchini, apparently. After a particular grocery store trip (where I purchased zucchini), I came home to find that not only was there already zucchini in the refrigerator (oops), but that a friend had also dropped off some baseball bat sized home grown zucchini! Now, there are [...]
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