Punschtorte, an Austrian Punch Cake

Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes, Travel Guides

The Punschtorte is a classic Austrian cake with a big boozy punch! A thin cake sandwiches a rum punch filling, and finished off with a thick pink fondant icing. No one knows for sure the origins of this Punschtorte cake but it may have been introduced to...

9th Blogiversary: my Cake Decorating Challenge

Dessert Recipes, Instructions 101

The art form of cake decorating can be intimidating to a novice. But even masters had to start with a humbling first cake. Learn in this post the basic tools needed and how to prepare your canvas for your creations. Let’s eat a fancy decorated...

Why Kouign Amann Will Change your Hips

Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes

The Breton Kouign Amann pastry is utter heaven in a bite. The recipe calls for lots of butter, barely held together with flour and sugar. I am sure once you try it you will be hooked for life. Sorry hips you’re gonna get bigger! I am so late on this one,...

Dutch Stroopwafels, or Syrup Waffle

Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes

Stroopwafels are a yeasted cookies, cooked with a shallow waffle cookie press, split down the middle and filled with a gooey butterscotch filling. A couple of years back my colleagues and I would buy these Dutch cookies almost every day at a grocery store on the way...

Vanillekipferl, an Austrian Christmas Cookie

Dessert Recipes

Although mostly associated with Christmas, you can enjoy these delicate crescent shaped Austrian Vanillekipferl cookies year round. It’s time for the MENA (Middle Eastern & North African) Cooking Group. This monthly group has for goal to help us...

Christmas Bundt Cake, Regency Style

Dessert Recipes, Recipes from food films and TV, Reviews

Don’t you think guests would fall in love with this Christmas Bundt Cake? A bundt cake makes any cake look more festive; and the floral and ribbon touches evoke the Jane Austen setting for this month’s food film. It’s Food ‘n...