I am calling this creation a “Olive Oil, Almond and Sweet Plum Cake” but what it actually is is what happens when you take two of Joanne Chang’s Recipes from Flour Love — the Plum Frangipane Tart (page 230) and the Olive Oil Cake with Fresh Grapes (page 297) and combine them. Turns out, it’s pretty spectacular as a combination — it’s mostly the Olive Oil Cake recipes, but instead of grapes, I used tiny sweet plums. I’m guessing it would also work really well with cherries (pitted) or gooseberries as well. At any rate, glorious inspiration for an otherwise unforgettable Monday.
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So, these cookies are a little out of character for me: for starters, they are bigger, like the size of my hand. That is unusual for me as I prefer smaller cookies. And second, they use artificial colors in the sugar, which I do once in a blue moon. But back in late June, i made some fantastic strawberry jam, and then in mid-July, I found a strawberry shaped cookie cutter, so I knew that these cookies needed to me. They are actually quite yummy, with just a hint of almond in the cookie itself. And the homemade jam is great too.
Bailey’s Irish Cream Toffee Bit Brownies! Just think how amazing these would be in a brownie sundae with a big scoop of vanilla (or coffee!) ice cream. I put a whole bag of both a Bailey’s Chips and Heath Bar Toffee Bits in the recipe, so they turned out almost fudge like. Extremely decadent. Incredibly irresistible!
When in doubt, make crumble bars, Kat says. Yes, I made more crumble bars. They are a great summer dessert or snack, come together in a flash and this time, I had some red current jelly to add from when I went picking last week, plus passion fruit jam. Have you ever had passion fruit jam? It’s sooooo yummy.
Here is the second of my Cook/Bake-a-long submissions on the topic of “From my Garden”, “From the Farmer’s Market” and “From the Farm”: a Blueberry Rhubarb Galette: the blueberries are from Russell Orchards PYO and the rhubarb is from my parents garden up in Maine. Normally it’s strawberries that get the lovin’ with the rhubarb, but I think that it is fantastic with blueberries too. Very yummy!