• Maple Syrup, Nuts And Halva Cake

    I gotta say that sometimes I hate all the dandyish that people do with their cakes. Too much hoo-ha and when you get to the taste test the cake is not that tasty. when friends called us the other night wanted to come for coffee “in about an hour … we’re on our way” I was looking to make something sweet and fast. I do not know why, but my recipe book is always the last in my quest for a good recipe and for some reason, I always go looking on the Internet first. So I found a maple nut cake a bit dandyish in terms of ingredients and…

  • Mrs. Pomerantz’s Cake

    I’m such a nostalgic type. Maybe it’s because my moon is in Cancer. Fond of pleasant memories and excited by everything. Well, I’m also sentimental. Smells and tastes bring me in the seconds to a distant place. To my mother’s embrace when I was a child, to my grannie’s kitchen, which always had 3 or 4 pots full of food for every one who comes to visit… I don’t know Mrs. Pomerantz personally, only from stories. She is my husband’s patient and every time she comes for a treatment she brings a cake or a compote, and on his birthday she sent him a birthday cake, like in the seventies…

  • Souffle Cheese Cake

    A baked cheesecake does not need an excuse. For me, she’s a winner! She’s the prima ballerina of the desserts – gentle, soft, light, white, dancing lightly, and in every pirouette of the spatula, which mixes the mass, the air enters it to ensure lightness. Like a ballet dancer who’s every move and position is precise, this cake also requires attention to detail – low heat, timing, and a lot of patience. And when it finally reaches the mouth, there is nothing that can be compared to it – fills the mouth with clouds of sourness and sweetness, and it has a softness with a bite. There are many ways…