Category: Maida Heatter

• Maida Heatter’s Best Damn Lemon Cake

  

  Over the weekend, I told a friend that I was running out of ideas of things to bake. That’s not exactly accurate. I have a lot of ideas, I just can’t seem to put them into action. My perfectionism gets in the way. It seems I have a sort of “baker’s block”. I think the antidote to […]

  Dave G

  October 27, 2014

  almond flour, almond meal, almonds, baked goods, baking, cakes, coffee cake, dessert, lemon, Maida Heatter, teacake

  almond lemon pound cake, lemon, lemon pound cake, tea cake

• Chocolate Honey Cake, a.k.a. The Robert Redford Cake

  

  If you were to do an online recipe search for “Robert Redford Cake”, what you’d get would be recipes that are called “Better than Robert Redford Cake”, or sometimes, “Better than Sex Cake”. Back in the day, Robert Redford was such a big star and sex symbol, and so these cakes are supposed to be […]

  Dave G

  May 20, 2014

  baked goods, baking, cakes, chocolate, chocolate cake, dessert, gluten-free, Maida Heatter

  almonds, chocolate cake, chocolate honey cake, flourless chocolate cake, hazelnuts, honey, Maida Heatter, robert redford, souffle cake

• Budapest Coffee Cake

  

  This is a recipe from Maida Heatter, a pastry chef and cookbook author of numerous books on desserts and baking. It is called the Budapest Coffee Cake, and is from “Book of Great Desserts”. It was (is?) the most popular recipe from that book, published in 1974. I like it because it contains cinnamon AND […]

  Dave G

  May 17, 2014

  baked goods, baking, breakfast, brunch, cakes, cocoa, coffee cake, dessert, Maida Heatter, quick bread

  Budapest Coffee Cake, cinnamon, cocoa powder, coffee cake, currants, walnuts