It’s been really hot during the past weeks and as that was not enough, I have been suffering from back aches and pain in the neck so that has kept me away from blogging. I have been going for physiotherapy and I am a bit better but still I must avoid staying too long …
Cakes
Bread Pudding is an old fashioned dessert which is made in many countries which had an English influence.
This Red Velvet Strawberry Cake is the most incredible Cake, with Cream Cheese filling and frosting. It is fluffy, soft, buttery and moist with the most perfect strawberry taste made with real strawberries!
Vassilopita is a traditional Greek cake or bread with a coin inside, named after St. Basil, which is made for New Year’s Day.
This Strawberry Mousse Cake is made with sponge cake filled and frosted with a cream cheese mousse made with strawberry coulis and decorated with chocolate cupcakes and strawberries.
This Valentine’s Dark Chocolate Cake is rich and delicious. It is super moist, filled with cream cheese, whipped cream and sour cherries and gets all its flavour from the sour cherries.
There always seems to be a new trend in baking and after the frenzy of cupcakes a couple of years ago, where everybody was making cupcakes and then last year with macaroons, this year I have read that whoopie pies will be the new trend, so I am sure we will be seeing A LoT …
This Carob Syrup and Spiced Ginger Chocolate Cake is made with one of my favourite Cypriot ingredients called “teratsomelo” and this is the syrup extracted from carobs.
When I made the pomegranate syrup, the children asked me to make some waffles. I had forgotten we had a waffle iron as it was hidden somewhere in a closet for years. There was a recipe in the booklet which I had tried in the past, before starting the blog which I did not …
Fanouropita or Phanouropita is a Greek, vegan cake made to honour St. Phanourios (or Fanourios), who is known to help people find lost objects or to reveal things to you.