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Sweet Potato Pie for Everyone

January 16, 2023 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Creamy, comforting and above all sweet, sweet potato pie is more than dessert. Sweet potato pie is the taste of home, it’s its own love language, and a sweet symbol of Black pride, perfect for Martin Luther King Day. If your mother, auntie or gran makes it, you know it’s the best. But here’s the…

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Christmas Gingerbread | Caribbean Gingerbread

December 12, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Warm up with the tropical taste of Caribbean gingerbread.

Filed Under: Cake & Tarts, DESSERT Tagged With: bundt, bundt cake, caribbean, Christmas, ginger, gingerbread, holiday

Apples Take The Cake

September 19, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

rosh Hashanah apple cake

Pass on the pumpkin spice. This season, bite into something real.  Autumn means fresh apples.  Apples bring sweetness naturally, so they’re naturally a Rosh Hashanah favorite. We celebrate the Jewish new year with sweetness in the hope of a sweet year to come. In many Jewish families, this means apples and honey.  My apple cake…

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Summer Fruit Kuchen

May 30, 2022 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Start the season sweet with summer fruit kuchen. Kuchen, German for cake, belongs to the family of cobblers, slumps, grunts, buckles, betties, and all those homey fruit and batter desserts with unlovely names. Here, the batter’s on the bottom, ripe seasonal fruit goes on the top, and you pop the whole thing into the oven,…

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Year-End Special — Rosh Hashanah Apple Cake

September 6, 2021 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

rosh Hashanah apple cake

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year starts today at sundown, and man, are we all ready for a new year, a fresh start.   We observe Rosh Hashanah by tasting something sweet, to start the new year with sweetness.  Traditionally, this means apples and honey.  We’re keeping the tradition, keeping the apples, but losing the…

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Filed Under: Cake & Tarts, DESSERT, Uncategorized Tagged With: apple, cake, dessert, honey, jewish, new year, Rosh Hashanah, sacred, spice, symbolic, vegan, yom kippur

Red Velvet Cake (Vegan Chocolate Beet Cake)

June 14, 2021 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Two celebrations, one dessert — red velvet cake. This year, Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, falls on the 19th, and Father’s Day on the 20th. Red velvet cake is a sweet Juneteenth tradition, and my father went for anything sweet. Enjoy a sweet taste of freedom this weekend, and check out the Netflix series, “High…

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Filed Under: Cake & Tarts, DESSERT Tagged With: Red Velvet Cake, Vegan Chocolate Beet Cake

Three Reasons to Celebrate – One Great Chocolate Guinness Cake

March 15, 2021 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Hey, kids, watch as I weave together St. Patrick’s Day, Women’s History Month and Whole Grains Sampling Day to prove that Guinness is good for you. Hang in there; there’s chocolate at the end. Wednesday is St. Patrick’s Day, the magical day when we all become Irish, so remember — Guinness is good for you…

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Sticky Toffee Pudding – Vegan Edition

December 7, 2020 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Start the holiday season with sweetness and tradition with sticky toffee pudding, a beloved Brit dessert. Brit cuisine has suffered from a bad reputation, but sticky toffee pudding is something we can all get behind. Sweet and decadent, it earns its name, but it offers a little nourishment surprise, too. It’s date cake drowning in…

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Filed Under: Cake & Tarts, DESSERT Tagged With: cake, date, dates, dessert, pudding, sticky, sweet, toffee, whiskey

Vote Blue Brownies

November 2, 2020 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

In a year of challenges and division, there are two points we can agree on— we’re all against covid and we all love chocolate. These grown-up Vote Blue Brownies are chocolaty and fudgy and the perfect treat for yourself after leaving the polling place.   Blame the upcoming election.  My friend Marc and I were talking…

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Filed Under: Cake & Tarts, DESSERT Tagged With: brownie, brownies, chocolate, democracy, fudge, fudgy, polling, vote, voting

Carving Pumpkin, Carving Out Tradition | Pumpkin Bread

October 26, 2020 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Pumpkin carving is a tradition worth having and when you are done, you can turn your handiwork into something worth eating. So long soggy pumpkin bread that’s decidedly un-pumpkiny. I’ve figured out how to bake pumpkin into the kind of bread that would make even the scariest Halloween pumpkin smile. This Halloween, like so much…

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Filed Under: BREAD, Cake & Tarts, DESSERT Tagged With: autumn, cinnamon, fall, halloween, pumpkin, Pumpkin Bread, spice

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