Blue Ridge Bites: Spiced Date Cake from Halwa Bakery & Cafe Karmen George from Halwa Bakery & Cafe shows us how to make a spiced date cake Just in time for fall, Karmen George, owner of Halwa Bakery & ...

Remember the poke-and-pour cakes of another era, using colorful gelatin and white cake? We’re poking and pouring here too, but with a brown sugar caramel that echoes the flavors of the moist date cake ...

Make the Cake: Preheat the oven to 325°. Butter and flour a 9-by-3-inch round cake pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Butter and flour the paper. In a medium microwave-safe bowl, cover the ...

A few months ago, I came across a recipe for a date cake. I hadn’t cooked much with dates but was intrigued by how this cake was made. Dates are softened in simmering water and pureed into a paste ...

Note: "When my friend Steven Brown asked me to design a dessert program for his now-famous Tilia restaurant, he had two requests: There had to be a butterscotch pudding and a sticky toffee-date cake," ...

I often think that I was born with a date in my mouth, because soft, plump and dark Medjool dates are so abundant in Morocco! Prized for their rich caramelized flavor, dates are served at weddings and ...

Despite the jokes, we enjoy fruitcake in our house. Likewise, the dark fruit flavors of mincemeat, plum puddings, stollen and lebkuchen. They prove a bold contrast to all the sugar cookies, peppermint ...

There’s just something about spring that makes me crave carrot cake. Maybe it’s the pastel everything, maybe it’s the six Easter events my kids somehow ended up in — or maybe it’s just a nostalgic way ...