SUZIE SWEET TOOTH

Cakes, Treats, and Everything Sweet

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    • 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…

    • Almond Joy Cookies

      Apparantly I’m a jam hoarder. I didn’t realize how bad this habit of mine was until we recently got a new refrigerator. Jams, preserves, jellies. Whenever I see jam on sale I can’t stop myself; if it’s something I even fancy I’m apt to buy it and squirrel it away. It’s not that I eat it on toast.…

    • Churros

      Fried dough of any type brings out my call of the wild. AWwww ye aw ye aw ye awwwW.. Beignets, elephant ears, doughnuts, funnel cake. It’s all good, but there is something about a churro. Churros and hot chocolate. Mmmm. The weather this summer in San Francisco is really- how shall I put this delicately- SUCKING BIGTIME.  Basically…