Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
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 [...]
A year ago, I posted my efforts to make a Chocolate Matcha Marble Cake, inspired by a Bakerella recipe that I read the year before. While the resulting cake was delicious, I wasn’t quite happy with the way it looked visually. I think the problem was that instead of using the Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa Powder [...]
My favorite cake of all time is the Japanese Strawberry Cake. I have wonderful memories of visiting Little Tokyo in Downtown LA as a child, and getting a slice of this insanely delicious, light, and delicate cake from the Japanese bakery. The year I got my very first real job (2000), I decided to buy [...]
(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 [...]
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