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The Goldilocks Cake {Lemon Pistachio Layer Cake}

June 9, 2019 By Korena in the Kitchen 1 Comment

The Goldilocks Cake {Lemon Pistachio Layer Cake} | Korena in the Kitchen

If you are a long time reader, you may be aware that I have been on a multi-year quest to make a lemon layer cake that is juuuuust right. I’ve made many, many attempts – the first one, with dense layers and teeth-achingly sweet cream cheese frosting; this meringue-topped beaut that introduced me to Tartine’s fantastic lemon cream; this lemon, blackberry and white chocolate behemoth; a cake with wonderfully soft and light layers but disasterously drippy frosting; another lemon and blackberry behemoth with more drippy frosting; and most recently, one that featured a brilliant lemon curd formula and was so pretty – but all were too dense or too sweet or too drippy, and still not juuuuust right.

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Recipes Tagged With: buttercream, cake, dessert, lemon, lemon curd, lemon layer cake, pistachio, pistachio cake, recipe, Swiss Meringue Buttercream, whipped cream

Pistachio Petit Four Cake

August 6, 2018 By Korena in the Kitchen 4 Comments

Every year I carefully plan what kind of birthday cake I’m going to make myself, and this year I was imagining some kind of over-the-top creation with chocolate and peanut butter. But my chocolate cake craving was satisfied when I made a Devil’s Food Cake with Marshmallow Frosting (OMG) for a co-worker’s last day potluck, and then I changed tacks completely when I came across this little pistachio layer cake beauty, boasting not only pistachio sponge but also apricot jam, thin ribbons of marzipan, chocolate ganache, and flowers. And as a cake project lover and general fussy-pastry enthusiast, it seemed like the perfect birthday present to myself.

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Chocolate, Recipes Tagged With: apricot jam, baking, birthday cake, cake, chocolate, dessert, layer cake, marzipan, petit four, pistachio, recipe

Pistachio, Rose & Strawberry Buns

June 25, 2018 By Korena in the Kitchen 1 Comment

I came across this recipe for brioche buns filled with pistachio cream and strawberry jam and brushed with rose-flavoured syrup in the Food52 Baking Club on Facebook, where we are baking from the book “Golden” by Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer for the month of June. Despite not being too sure about rose-flavoured things (the last time I baked with rosewater I ended up with sugar cookies that tasted like they’d been made with old potpourri, ie: not good), after reading a few enthusiastic reviews, I decided to try them myself. All my uncertainty was for naught, because THESE – these are amazing!

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Filed Under: Bread, Breakfast & Brunch, Recipes Tagged With: baking, breakfast, brioche, Golden, pistachio, recipe, rose water, strawberry, yeast

Lemon Pistachio Biscotti

December 16, 2015 By Korena in the Kitchen 2 Comments

Lemon Pistachio Biscotti | Korena in the KitchenI had a jarring realization this past weekend that we were less than two weeks away from Christmas and that I hadn’t started any Christmas shopping – or worse, any Christmas baking. But then I remembered that I had actually baked and sent off holiday cookies for the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap several weeks ago, so all was not lost. I participated in the Cookie Swap in 2013, then missed the sign-up deadline last year, so I was pretty excited to be part of it again this year. Participants pay a small entrance fee to raise money for the Cookies for Kids Cancer campaign, and then are matched up with three food bloggers to send cookies to. In return, you receive cookies from three other bloggers. These are the goodies that I got in the mail:

  • Vegan candy cane shortbread from Kacey of The Cookie Writer
  • Vegan snickerdoodles from Lisa of The Viet Vegan
  • Three different kinds of brown sugar cookies from Allison of The Bacon Eating Jewish Vegetarian

Merry Christmas to me, indeed!

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Filed Under: Cookies & Squares Tagged With: baking, biscotti, chocolate, Christmas baking, Christmas cookies, cookies, Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap, lemon, pistachio, recipe

Turkish Delight

May 15, 2015 By Korena in the Kitchen 8 Comments

Turkish Delight | Korena in the Kitchen

For the Month of May, Rachael from Pizzarossa challenged us to make candy but not just any candy! She challenged us to make Turkish Delight, or Lokum.

This month, I joined the Daring Cooks (counterpart to the Daring Bakers) to make Turkish Delight, the jelly-like, powdered sugar-coated squares of rose water candy. If it sounds a little weird, that’s because it is. Weird, but good, and the homemade version is pretty close to the Turkish Delight I remember eating in the holiday candy boxes that my teacher parents usually received around Christmas.

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Filed Under: Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes Tagged With: candy, Daring Cooks, lemon, pistachio, recipe, rose water, Turkish Delight

Daring Bakers: Filipino Sans Rival Cake

November 27, 2011 By Korena in the Kitchen 30 Comments

Catherine of Munchie Musings was our November Daring Bakers’ host and she challenged us to make a traditional Filipino dessert – the delicious Sans Rival cake! And for those of us who wanted to try an additional Filipino dessert, Catherine also gave us a bonus recipe for Bibingka which comes from her friend Jun of Jun-blog.

At first glance, it seems odd that Sans Rival is a traditional Filipino dessert, being that all of its components are decidedly French! This is a cake made of dacquoise discs – meringue mixed with nuts and baked until crisp – layered with French buttercream frosting and decorated with more nuts (traditionally cashews). Apparently, in the 1920s and 30s, many Filipinos went abroad to study and those who ended up in France brought home the French language and pastry chef techniques that originated the Sans Rival. Sans Rival means “without rival”, and it’s a pretty appropriate name: this is a delicious, rich dessert.

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Chocolate, Daring Bakers / Daring Kitchen Challenges, Recipes Tagged With: dacquoise, Daring Bakers, Filipino cuisine, food, french buttercream, pistachio, recipe, sans rival

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