-
Chocolate Flan Cake (Chocoflan)
Our word for flan actually is derived from the Latin, “flado” (meaning flat cake), which became “flaon” in Old French. – History of Flan. You’ll make this cake and you will ask yourself, how did I go this long without chocoflan in my life? I have to thank my friend, artist Alessandro Tomassetti, for turning me on to it. Not only is this cake heaven on earth but it’s also magic! You put in your caramel, you put in your cake batter, and you put in your flan, but when it comes out…the cake and the flan are reversed! What?!
-
Blueberry Cobbler
“Eat it warm or cold. Although it is not a fashionable pie for company, it is very excellent for family use…” – Mrs. Lettice Bryan on a ‘cobler’ in The Kentucky Housewife, 1839. Hello friends! Don’t you just love summer? All those strawberries. And peaches. And blueberries! As a kid I loved nothing more than staying up late during summer vacation, watching movies while snacking on fresh blueberries from the freezer.
-
Orange Cardamom Madeleines
She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called ‘petites madeleines’….I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate, a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place. – Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, volume 1.
