As promised, I am baking along to my own bake-a-long, so here is my first treat: Raspberry Almond Crumble Coffee Cake. They are crumble *bars* only in a round shape, so sort of coffee cake like. But it is the same recipe as my bars, and equally as easy to make. Delicious! You still have time to participate until Monday on the crumble bar bake-a-long; see the previous post for details!
It’s getting to be Valentine’s Day and every year about this time, I go off on a little rant on how much I hate Valentine’s Day while at the same time making treat in the shapes of hearts and made with chocolate. It is also the anniversary of this here blog — Cup of Sugar :: Pinch of Salt turns 9 years old on Sunday. This is usually my excuse for making treat like these linzer cookies. This time with Passion Fruit and Red Wine Jelly filling. Different (especially the red wine) but delicious.
I love figs. In fact, I have a Pinterest Board called “Getting Figgy with it” which is all sort of fig recipes. This is variation of a fig cake cookie (aka “Fig Newton”), in this case, a shortbread base with fig crumble and almonds. Easy to make, comes together in minutes and a sweet, buttery, nutty treat.
It’s official cake day. As I have probably mentioned, I usually only make a *cake* once per year (usually for celebrations, I make cupcakes), but today is official cake day. This year, I made a Lemon Raspberry Layer Cake — inside each layer of cake is progressively “redder” with raspberries (actually, it’s more pink than red) and outside a light, fluffy lemon buttercream. I’ll be digging in shortly!