Cakes Archives - Food Market Gypsy https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/category/cakes/ Discovering desserts, culture, and cuisine around the world Fri, 17 Apr 2020 01:26:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/old.foodmarketgypsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-IMG_3790.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Cakes Archives - Food Market Gypsy https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/category/cakes/ 32 32 163573121 Copyright © Food Market Gypsy 2019 susie@FoodMarketGypsy.com (Susie Norris, Food Market Gypsy) susie@FoodMarketGypsy.com (Susie Norris, Food Market Gypsy) 1440 https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Food Market Gypsy https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com 144 144 Discovering desserts, cities, markets, chocolate, savories & art Baking, Cooking, recipes, A, Baker's, Passport, Food, Market, Gypsy, cookbooks, food Susie Norris, Food Market Gypsy Susie Norris, Food Market Gypsy susie@FoodMarketGypsy.com no no A Baker’s Passport-January 2019 https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/a-bakers-passport-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-bakers-passport-2 https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/a-bakers-passport-2/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2018 05:30:37 +0000 https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/?p=6958 This blog celebrates desserts and what fun it is to write about them. Somehow, the adventure of discovering sweet and savory baking classics in their homelands has become the story of my life and now, a book: A Baker’s Passport: Recipes for Breads, Savory Pies, Vegetarian Dishes, Tarts, Cakes, and Cookie Classics. A Baker’s Passport is available for Continue Reading

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]]> https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/a-bakers-passport-2/feed/ 2 6958 Holiday Desserts in Pictures https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/cakes-cookies-confections/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cakes-cookies-confections https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/cakes-cookies-confections/#comments Sat, 02 Dec 2017 03:10:48 +0000 https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/?p=6586  In December, much of the world sees things the way I do. Artistic cakes, cookies, snow globes, chocolates, and vividly wrapped confections fill shop windows, screens, and billboards.  They are everywhere. For over 17 years, I have explored the pastry arts, sometimes as a chef and sometimes as a gypsy traveler hoping to capture in Continue Reading

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]]> https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/cakes-cookies-confections/feed/ 4 6586 Vegetable Dumplings & New Year in Chinatown https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/marriage-made-dumplings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marriage-made-dumplings https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/marriage-made-dumplings/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2016 04:45:16 +0000 http://www.susienorris.com/?p=4504  In case you missed The Los Angeles Times writer/author/ethnic-eats guru Jonathan Gold’s recent article about dumplings in Chinatown, read.  The Lunar New Year begins February 8.  While you may or may never achieve the delicate balance of soup inside a handmade dumpling made famous by the restaurant Din Tai Fung that Gold profiles, you can Continue Reading

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]]> https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/marriage-made-dumplings/feed/ 3 4504 Sachertorte mit globalism in Vienna https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/sachertorte-mit-globalism-in-vienna/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sachertorte-mit-globalism-in-vienna https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/sachertorte-mit-globalism-in-vienna/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:21:05 +0000 http://www.susienorris.com/?p=3789 I know, I know…Vienna has always been a cosmopolitan city.  But we approached it as a dessert capital – a singular exemplar; a province of old-world excellence. If other discoveries awaited us in this city, we didn’t care. While Vienna delivered on its culinary promise, we could not ignore how it asserted itself as a Continue Reading

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]]> https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/sachertorte-mit-globalism-in-vienna/feed/ 2 3789 Beckoned By Black Forest Cake in Berlin https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/beckoned-by-berlin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beckoned-by-berlin https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/beckoned-by-berlin/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2015 04:52:23 +0000 http://www.susienorris.com/?p=4155 Seriously, this was a business trip. We HAD to find a quality slice of Black Forest Cake even though it was sought only by old-fashioned, German-language-less tourists like me. Most people seemed oblivious to the fact that this cake was born in Berlin. Where was its memorial? Where was its shrine? We got distracted by Continue Reading

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]]> https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/beckoned-by-berlin/feed/ 0 4155 Lemons, Loquats and Blessings in Old Hollywood https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/lemons-loquats-and-blessings-in-old-hollywood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lemons-loquats-and-blessings-in-old-hollywood https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/lemons-loquats-and-blessings-in-old-hollywood/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2015 05:47:11 +0000 http://www.susienorris.com/?p=3538 The Hollywood Hills, among which I have lived for most of the last 25 years, are full of secrets. My favorite trail winds through sandy knolls and meadows down to a reservoir. It is the equivalent of a secret surf spot – we don’t discuss it much. Beyond it is the jungle of LA, then Continue Reading

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]]> https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/lemons-loquats-and-blessings-in-old-hollywood/feed/ 1 3538 Drum Beat to Budapest https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/drum-beat-in-budapest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drum-beat-in-budapest https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/drum-beat-in-budapest/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2015 04:07:48 +0000 http://www.susienorris.com/?p=3401 Can a person be in love with a cake?  I think I am in love with the Dobos Torte – a rich, multi-layer stack of brandy-drizzled almond cake filled with chocolate buttercream and topped with distinctive caramel wedges. Dobos Torte (or “Dobos Torta”) and I have a long relationship. I have made it for my Continue Reading

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]]> https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/drum-beat-in-budapest/feed/ 5 3401 Red Carpet, Red Velvet in Hollywood https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/red-carpet-red-velvet-in-hollywood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=red-carpet-red-velvet-in-hollywood https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/red-carpet-red-velvet-in-hollywood/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2015 23:01:33 +0000 http://www.susienorris.com/?p=3175 Just a few miles from Hollywood’s red carpet bonanza is the other side: my neighborhood of Silver Lake where you can eat fried food, wear shorts and be certain that no one cares about taking your photograph.  Is it a beautiful city, this Hollywood – east side or west?  Nope.  But it has pockets of Continue Reading

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]]> https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/red-carpet-red-velvet-in-hollywood/feed/ 4 3175 All Wrapped Up in Quebec https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/all-wrapped-up-in-quebec/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=all-wrapped-up-in-quebec https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/all-wrapped-up-in-quebec/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2015 04:38:45 +0000 http://www.susienorris.com/?p=3081 Toy soldiers, trains, presents, chocolate, bows – all fine stuff of childhood.  Mass-marketers understand this and often sell us charmingly quaint packaging with nothing but chalk-like chocolate inside.  In Quebec, roadsigns led me up a steep hill to a mini-chocolate factory guarded by this guy: I feared the worst. Chunky sentry like these are cherished Continue Reading

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]]> https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/stick-with-me-nyc/feed/ 0 2993 Vienna Waits for Me https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/finding-your-way-around-vienna/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=finding-your-way-around-vienna https://old.foodmarketgypsy.com/finding-your-way-around-vienna/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:34:40 +0000 http://www.susienorris.com/?p=2871 Vienna is on the list for the dessert tour in June.  We’re looking for kaffeehauses, Linzertorte, gugelhupf & Sachertorte.  Yes, it is a pilgrimage.    

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