This lovely cake calls for care in preparation. Plan your baking and assembling steps in advance and the result is a gorgeous, delicious cake.

INGREDIENTS:

Vanilla Genoise Layer Cake (recipe follows)
Soaking Solution (recipe follows)
1/3 cup raspberry jam
Flavored Whipped Cream (recipe follows)
1 cup Pastry Cream (recipe follows)
Marzipan, at room temperature (recipe follows), see note
Confectioners’ sugar for dusting
1 fresh [...]

Banana is the common name for a type of fruit and also the herbaceous plants of the genus Musa which produce this commonly eaten fruit. They are native to the tropical region of Southeast Asia. Bananas are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua New Guinea. Today, they are cultivated throughout the tropics.
Medicinal [...]

Wikipedia’s definition of snack food
A snack food (commonly called a snack) is seen in Western culture as a type of food not meant to be eaten as a main meal of the day – breakfast, lunch, or dinner – but one rather that is intended to assuage a person’s hunger between these meals, providing [...]

10 Most interesting traditional foods

1. Siwa Oasis dates, Egypt
In 332 BC, Alexander the Great followed birds across the scalding sands of northwestern Egypt to find the legendary Siwa Oasis. His goal was a private consultation with the oracle of the Sun God, Amon-Ra, who would anoint him the next Egyptian pharaoh, but there [...]

Horrible Smelling Foods

There are foods that will make you sick by their smell. Let’s try to open our mind to some new experiences as we remind ourselves that a particular smell we find offensive may not be so for others. Here are some of the foulest smelling international foods.

Stinky Tofu

By the name itself, there’s no [...]

Fascinating Food Facts!!!

Butter Tea

Fascinating Fact: In Tibet, a common drink is butter tea - it is made from yak butter, salt, and tea.
The average Tibetan can drink 50 - 60 cups of this tea in any one day! It is made by drying Chinese tea in the road for several days (to let it acquire [...]

easter goodies

Easter is a joyous holiday for Christians. As with most holidays, food is an important factor. If you celebrate Easter, you will most likely be looking for recipes to use up hard-boiled eggs, along with traditional Easter recipes for lamb and ham.
Although colored hard-boiled eggs are probably the first Easter food to come to [...]