Category Archives: Cake
>Polish Icebox Cake (Miodowiec)
When I finished high school, I worked hard for 6 months, did a quick English teaching course, packed my bags, sold my car and set off to live in Europe for a year. I had no idea what I was … Continue reading
>Strawberry Crumb Cake
Oh my gosh, this cake is amazing. I have a lot of delicious looking strawberry cakes and coffee cakes pinned on Pinterest and since I so fell in love with strawberries in pie, I have been meaning to make a … Continue reading
>Cookies and Cream Cake
I made a cake! Let’s have a party. I hardly ever make cake. Well, not traditional cake anyway. Brownies, blondies, cookies and pies are much more to my liking, so that’s what I end up baking most of the time. … Continue reading
>Polish Blueberry Cakes (Jagodzianki)
Today I am just sharing some photos with you. These little cakes are a traditional Polish pastry, called Jagodzianki (say ya-go-jan-ki). The name means blueberry cakes, or blueberry pastries. They are made from a basic Polish yeast dough and filled … Continue reading
>Flourless Chocolate Hazelnut Mud Cake
Can you melt chocolate? Can you whisk batter? Can you turn on your oven? If you can do all those things, then you can totally make this cake. It is that easy. We used to make this recipe when I … Continue reading
Filed under Cake, Chocolate, Gluten-free
>Poppy Seed Cake (Makowiec)
Hey! Guess what?! I’m going to Europe in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS! I’m going to Paris and Poland with my mum, to be exact. Paris is a stopover, just for a couple of days for some pastry eating and because … Continue reading
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>Little 5 Minute Chocolate Cake
This week has been really busy and the cookies I made yesterday were kind of disgusting, so I couldn’t blog about them. I needed a fast recipe to make up for all the wasted cookie-making time, and started thinking about … Continue reading
>Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies
Before Borders went broke, massively on sale and then shut its doors, I used to love going in there and spending hours sitting in the comfy armchairs and looking through all the baking books, deciding whether they were worth buying … Continue reading
Filed under Cake, Chocolate, Frosting, Whoopie Pies
>Yoghurt Cake with Brown Sugar Pears
So this is what I have been eating for breakfast every morning for the last couple of days. It is moist and light and not too sweet. It is Yogurt cake (or Gateau au Yaourt). Yogurt cake is yummy. It … Continue reading
>Vegan, Gluten-Free Banana Chocolate Chip Bread
I have a criminology exam tomorrow and my favourite pastime has become procrastination. I take days off work, don’t make any plans with friends and tell my boyfriend I’m unavailable, all so that I can stay home and study. And … Continue reading
Filed under Bread, Cake, Gluten-free, Vegan
