Cake Recipes

Many versions of "Singing Hinnies" appear in old farm house accounts and "kept" cook books.

Chai is black tea infused with spice cake spices - cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, clove, allspice, and mace. So it seemed a logical experiment to introduce it into a spice cake recipe. The cake didn't get spicier. Instead, it became more complex in flavor, subtler and wonderfully floral.

This cake is like a coffee cake, very good for breakfast or with a fruit dessert or an ice. Ukrainians take pride in grinding their own poppy seeds fresh for each occasion, but ground poppy seed also gives a very good flavor

This golden sponge cake layer appears in its paper wrapper in markets and pastry shops throughout Portugal.

Tres leches is the most famous Nicaraguan dessert. Three different kinds of milk are used in its preparation, hence the name. Universally appealing, this Nicaraguan dessert has been adopted by many Cuban and other Hispanic restaurants in Miami. The recipe comes from Los Ranchos

This dessert combination of bittersweet chocolate and dusky dried chilies isn't so strange when you consider their happy pairing in Mexican mole sauce. This is a sort of reverse mole sauce-heavy on the sweet and chocolate, light on the spicy essence of chili peppers. If you have the same passions for chocolate and hot chilies that I do, you won't be disappointed by this exotic cake recipe.

This cake tastes like a double-decker brownie. By substituting matzah cake meal for the flour, it becomes a perfect Passover cake.

I have been making this recipe for over 25 years. I am a native New Yorker (actually born in Manhattan) but have lived in many countries. I find there are certain tastes which always conjure up "home"--this is one of them.

Literally translated, the Italian means English soup and no doubt derives from the related English tipsy cake or trifle. For this showy party dessert, layers of cake are lightly soaked in rum and covered with rich custard and fruits.