Date Honey Nut Cake - Easy Loaf Cake, Moist and Tender
This delicious, super easy date cake with honey and nuts is lovely served with tea or coffee. Perfect for Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, or any holiday! Kosher.
How To Make Homemade Almond Paste - The Seaside Baker
Avoid spending way to much money on store-bought Almond Paste when you can make it in a about 5 minutes for half the cost!
Cherry Marzipan Tart
Photo updated in October 2010 The cherry season is in full swing in Estonia. Every market stall sells both sweet and sour cherries - the latter being more easily available these days. I love using sour cherries in various cakes, much more than sweet cherries which are often too bland in flavour. Here's a nice recipe with sour cherries and sweet marzipan and crunchy flaked almonds. You can substitute sweet cherries, but I'd use some more lemon zest to spike things up a bit. Cherry Marzipan…
Moroccan Vegetable Pot and Couscous with Pine Nuts and Dill
This warmly-spiced vegetable stew, sweet with parsnips and carrots and tangy with preserved lemons and dried apricots is the perfect winter warmer, and just right to break up the seasonal meat feast. And it smells so wonderfully festive as it cooks. I have specified wholemeal - sometimes sold as wholegrain - couscous as an accompaniment, as I so much prefer it: it is nuttier than regular couscous but still fine and light. Were you to want to sprinkle some pomegranate seeds over, along with…