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Classic French Apple Cake

Packed with apples and a whisper of dark rum, this French Apple Cake brings French-style simplicity into your home kitchen.
Walk into most coffeeshops and the hungry are faced with the choice of a mass-produced muffin or a plastic-wrapped (but still tired) cookie. Not so at Crema Coffee House. Here, pastry chef Kimmy ...
"This food processor cake is moist and tender. Before serving, the cake is brushed with whiskey-laced syrup, then covered with jam-flavored fruit, and served with sour cream or creme fraîche. To make ...
How can a cake look *this* gorgeous without any fancy finishing touches or frosting, you ask? It’s as simple as topping it with sugared slivered almonds and baking it into a crunchy caramel-like crust ...
"This food processor cake is moist and tender. Before serving, the cake is brushed with whiskey-laced syrup, then covered with jam-flavored fruit, and served with sour cream or creme fraîche. To make ...
Many, many years ago, whenever my grandparents would land at LAX from Sydney, Australia, their first stop was at the Culver City cottage of Trinh Le. Trinh Le was a petite old lady who packed a ...
While growing up in Paris, Beatrice Germaine ate "king cake" that's nothing like the sprinkle-covered brioche slices New Orleanians know all too well. The new French café in Mid-City that Germaine ...