Recipe For Adventures

A look into my love of food, travel and the ingredients found in both

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

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For the fourth installment of the #BakingWithBeth series, we’re sticking with the classic, old-fashion cake theme one more time and making a pineapple upside down cake. There will still be more cake throughout the series. And likely Definitely more cakes from old southern and church cookbook recipes. As I’ve let nostalgia guide the beginning of the series, week four is […]

Sour Cream Pound Cake

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There are some cakes I’ve eaten all my life but never actually baked myself. Mainly because those have tended to be ones baked my mom, or grandmother, or great aunt, or cousin. Sour cream pound cake is one of those cakes. Another cake on regular rotation at the homes of G-mama, Aunt Merle & Annie […]

Hummingbird Cake

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For the second installment of #BakingWithBeth, I decided to bake a Hummingbird Cake. Originally the plan was a sour cream pound cake, but the UPSP has my pound cake pan held hostage somewhere between Atlanta and Los Angeles, so that will have to be saved for another week. A Hummingbird Cake seemed like a natural substitute – […]

Southern Caramel Cake

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Here’s goes nothing. It’s the first #BakingWithBeth recipe challenge – a traditional southern caramel cake. Picking out the first recipe was easy, as I wanted to go with a family recipe. One that reminded me of growing up in the South. A caramel cake does just that. When I was little, we’d go down to South Georgia […]

Churros and Chocolate Recipe

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After eating some of the most delicious churros and chocolate in Spain, I couldn’t wait to get in the kitchen and make them myself! Churros are a fried pastry dough made from Choux paste, which can also be used to make other delicious pastries like eclairs and profiteroles (cream puffs). Those Spanish shepherds were really on to […]

Icelandic Rye Bread

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Iceland is a spectacular country with some of the most amazing landscapes and natural phenomena. One of the natural phenomena most used throughout the country is geothermal energy. When planning my trip to Iceland and researching their food scene in the way of pastries and breads, I stumbled upon Icelandic rye bread, which is baked […]

Expat Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Mainly because it involves a lot of things I love…food, family/friends and football! Having lived in California for seven Thanksgivings, it’s actually been a holiday that I’ve spent more with friends than family over the past decade, and this will make the fourth Turkey Day in a row that I’ve […]

Chunky Apple Cake

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It’s fall, and despite having somewhat unseasonably warm(ish) weather in London, I love this time of year. Perfect for baking apple recipes. This Chunky Apple Cake with a cream cheese frosting is one of my favorite fall cakes from an old Southern Living (circa early 2000s) magazine that I clipped out and has been a staple […]

Banana Bread

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This is one of my favorite banana breads. It’s not quite a traditional banana bread, yet not quite a cake. Either way, it’s mighty tasty! My mom originally got this recipe from the Atlanta Gas Light Company Blue Flame Kitchen (circa approximately 1985) when they used to send out recipes as an insert with the bills. […]