Muscat Love

If you can swing it, make this with a strong, top-quality honey (I use Old Raw Blue Honey’s dreamy pumpkin honey) and a really grassy olive oil. Recipe after the jump. Second draft of this polenta grape cake — this one with a little less …

Marmalade Cake with Campari Icing

Here’s my cake version of an Americano (a lovely apéritif coming into warmer weather). This could be more Negroni-ish with the addition of juniper berry extract (or could be brushed with gin before icing), but the orange and vermouth fragrance are just lovely with this …

Volga German Soul Food

My beautiful homemade bierocks made it into the “Global Comfort Foods” issue of Portland Monthly, along with a little about why this humble food is so important to me. My recipe is included — please note that they’re usually seasoned only with salt and pepper, …

Cocoa-Banana Breakfast Bread

Why should breakfast bars and protein cookies get all the glory? These mini-loaves have all the joyful decadence of a chocolaty banana bread while packing 14 grams of protein and nearly a quarter of a day’s recommended calcium. Plus it’s fiber-rich and high in iron. …

Carrot Cake with Creamsicle Frosting

A quiet cake scene, this time carrot with creamsicle (orange-vanilla-cream cheese) frosting 🥕 🍰 🥕 🍰#cake #baking #cakestagram #carrotcake #buzzfeast #buzzfeedfood #instafood #instagood #foodstagram #f52gooey #f52grams #food52 #f52melty #vegetables #healthy #dairy #frosting #sweets #treats #goodies A post shared by Heather Arndt Anderson (@heatherarndtanderson) on Feb …

Marmalade Tea Cake

Okay, here’s the recipe for the orange marmalade cake WITH the recipe for it! It’s a wonderfully fragrant cake with a tender crumb, and I’ve made so many of them lately that I could practically do it in my sleep now. Recipe below the jump. …

Lemon Poppy Seed Tea Cake

There’s nothing as wonderful as citrus in the winter, is there? My recipe for this light and fragrant cake is after the jump, plus a variation to make an orange cake. Another tea cake! Lemon poppyseed, a pretty ordinary (but underappreciated) combo, improved by buttermilk …

Pear-Almond Tea Cake

Tea cakes continue to be my favorite cakes to bake, and here’s a really nice one. This is a pear-almond tea cake made with one very ripe, asymmetric pear from last week’s @imperfectproduce box and chopped roasted almonds, flavored with a spoonful of @clearcreekdistillery pear …