SUZIE SWEET TOOTH

Cakes, Treats, and Everything Sweet

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    Month: September 2011

    • Buttermilk Biscuits and small batch Blackberry Jam

      My little Seth is a biscuit fiend. He loves a good biscuit, and quite frankly who doesn’t ??  I had some leftover buttermilk from the cake I made earlier in the week and I always try to use it up when I can before it goes bad, so I decided to treat him and make some biscuits. …

    • Pumpkin Orange Spice Cake

      Pumpkin Orange Spice Cake Fall is officially here according to the calendar. This is exciting for us San Franciscans because it means finally our fog is lifting and we are coming into our “Indian summer”. The sky is suddenly blue instead of white, the sun is shining, the days are shorter but the smell of fall is in the…

    • Pumpkin Orange Spice Cake

      Pumpkin Orange Spice Cake Fall is officially here according to the calendar. This is exciting for us San Franciscans because it means finally our fog is lifting and we are coming into our “Indian summer”. The sky is suddenly blue instead of white, the sun is shining, the days are shorter but the smell of fall is in the…

    • “Payday Cookie Bars”

      Is there a happier word than payday?…. Okay, maybe “weekend”.  These bar cookies are a bit like a payday candy bar. They are salty and sweet. I love salty/sweet. Yin and Yang, Lucy and Desi, Tom and Jerry, opposites are good, no? Have you noticed there seems to be a lot of salty/sweet recipes these days? If…

    • Baking Tip: How Make Self-Rising Flour Or Cake Flour

      Flour Substitutions: I don’t have a cute picture or story today. Just a couple quick tips on flour. Just the facts Mam. You may notice sometimes recipes will call for “Self rising flour”. I notice a lot of Southern recipes call for self rising flour. I’ve heard you can make your fried chicken extra crunchy…

    • Coconut- Lemon- Passion Fruit Cake

      Coconut-Lemon-Passion Fruit Cake I like the combination of coconut and passion fruit. I was lucky to find this passion fruit jelly a couple of months ago and I bought the jelly with the intention of making passion fruit buttercream. I really liked how it turned out. I also used Monin passion fruit syrup to brush the cakes…