Month: August 2024

Buttermilk Biscuits With Strawberries and Cream

Buttermilk Biscuits With Strawberries and Cream

Love biscuits? This crisp-tender sweet biscuit is a perfect base for those oh-so-wonderful end-of-the-season (have I used enough hyphens here?) strawberries in our farmer’s markets right now.   This recipe is from Stella Park’s extraordinary cookbook BraveTart. You can order this great cookbook through your local…

Oldies But Goodies: Buttermilk Molasses Quick Bread

Oldies But Goodies: Buttermilk Molasses Quick Bread

Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.” Today’s Oldie But Goodie recipe is for Buttermilk Molasses Quick Bread, a bread that would be just right as the base for some…

Honey Cake: It’s a Honey of A Cake and Juliet is a  Honey of a Pup

Honey Cake: It’s a Honey of A Cake and Juliet is a Honey of a Pup

If you read this blog, you’ve met our CQO-OT (Chief Quality Officer and Official Taster), Juliet, many times before. Juliet is a 7-pound rescue Yorkie who brightens everything about our world here at Blue Cayenne.

Last week, King Arthur Baking’s Facebook page featured a post that asked readers to post photographs of their beloved pets and then proceeded to match the photo of the pet with a KAB recipe. Couldn’t resist that one, so up it went–a glamour shot of Sweet Juliet.

 

As it turned out, one of the first replies I got to the post was from one of those Internet creeps who asks you to reply to them privately on Messenger. Didn’t happen, of course, (Blue Cayenne’s editor wasn’t born yesterday, after all)  and, bless them, KAB promptly removed the post. Geesh! The weirdos are everywhere—even on a recipe site.

But back to the post-your-beloved-pet photo KAB promotion…

The people at King Arthur Baking matched Juliet  with King Arthur Baking’s Honey Cake–a really good match for her, I thought, because (of course) I think the sun rises and sets with this little honey of a dog and the cake is a beauty, too.

Here is the King Arthur Baking recipe link: King Arthur Baking Honey Cake.

Here is the recipe as I prepared it in my kitchen.

 

Honey Cake

August 18, 2024
Ingredients
  • 1 C. sliced almonds
  • 1 1/4 C. whole wheat flour (I used white whole wheat)
  • 3/4 C. all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 t. baking soda
  • 1/2 t. salt
  • 12 T. unsalted butter (room temperature)
  • 1 C. honey
  • 4 large eggs (room temperature)
  • 1/4 C. sour cream (or yogurt-I used sour cream)
Directions
  • Step 1 Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
  • Step 2 Prepare a 9-inch round baking pan by greasing it with butter. Then, sprinkle 3/4 C. of the sliced almonds on the bottom of the pan. Set aside.
  • Step 3 Add flours, baking soda and salt to a bowl and whisk. Set aside.
  • Step 4 Add butter, honey and eggs together in a separate large bowl. Mix. (I used the bowl of my stand mixer and the paddle attachment for this step.) Once these ingredients are mixed, mix in flour mixture from step 3. Then, add and mix the sour cream and reserved almonds into the mixture until all the ingredients are evenly moistened.
  • Step 5 Spoon the batter into the pan covering the almonds on the bottom of the pan.
  • Step 6 Bake for 50 minutes. The cake will be done when you can insert a toothpick into the center of the cake and it comes out clean. Set the baked cake on a rack and let it cool for about 15 minutes. Invert the cake onto a serving plate.
  • Step 7 Dust the top of the cake with a bit of powdered sugar. Top with some pretty raspberries.
  • Step 8 Serve and enjoy, sending good vibes to Sweet Juliet, of course.

 

Blueberry Muffin Loaves

Blueberry Muffin Loaves

There are few things better than a warm blueberry muffin and a hot cup of tea in the early morning drowsiness of waking up.  This is a very good muffin. Actually, it is a small loaf, baked in my small loaf pan shown below.  My…

Tomato and Basil Fried Rice

Tomato and Basil Fried Rice

Love fried rice? I certainly do.  This fried rice recipe just might tickle your taste buds. The New York Times Food Section featured a recipe for Tomato and Basil Fried Rice by cookbook author Hetty McKinnon  this week. McKinnon is the author of a number…