Tag: blackberries

  • burnt honey cake with blackberry jam and marzipan

    burnt honey cake with blackberry jam and marzipan

    there are few cakes that cross my mind as often as the pink champagne cake i made two years ago does. i think this is due to a combination of three things: 1) it’s one of the prettiest cakes i’ve ever made, 2) my life was in complete turmoil when i made it, and 3) the…

  • a birthday black(berry) forest cake for molly yeh!

    a birthday black(berry) forest cake for molly yeh!

    molly’s love for wine is among the things i learned after meeting her at the cold mountain retreat in asheville. i contemplated attempting an immaculately frosted cake – adorned with marzipan, in molly’s signature style – to celebrate her twenty-sixth birthday. instead, i decided to make a cake that i can picture the two of…

  • mascarpone-filled cake with macerated berries

    makes one cake I made this as a welcome home from Minnesota present for my mom. I wanted it to be small, so I quartered the recipe using my mini cake pans. It turned out great; probably the lightest cake I’ve ever made. very slightly adapted from www.epicurious.com Ingredients   For cake: 2 cups sifted cake…