Recipes

Swedish Midsommar Cake // The Sugar Hit

Midsommar Cake // International Eats

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  Swedish Midsommar! Blue skies, flower crowns, white dresses, smorgasboards and strawberries! Doesn’t that sound gorgeous? Especially when those strawberries are part of this light, luscious cake!   It’s simple, and utterly perfect. Two light layers of a simple sponge…

Chocolate Babka // The Sugar Hit

Chocolate Babka // International Eats

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  Ooooooooh Chocolate Babka. The coveted Babka, if Elaine Benes is to be believed. And as much as I believe the Cinnamon Babka to be worthy of recognition – the chocolate babka is pretty damned hard to beat.   This…

Peach Splits with Goma Praline // The Sugar Hit

Peach Splits with Goma Praline

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  WELL HELLO THERE easy, impressive weekend dessert! This is my summer fruit jam-a-lam. There may be nothing better than a heat-kissed peach, and a big scoop of milky vanilla ice cream.   But if there’s one thing that can…

Homemade Buttermilk Donuts // The Sugar Hit

Let’s make…Buttermilk Donuts!

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  Whether it’s just too crazy hot, or you’re stuck in a blizzard, or it’s tropical storming like nobody’s business, sometimes the only thing left to say is ‘let’s make buttermilk donuts’.   And the only thing to do after…

Lush Chocolate Milo Cake // The Sugar Hit

Lush Chocolate Milo Cake

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  Is it a weird reaction to want to laugh hysterically when I spy something as delicious as this cake? Because that’s my instinct. It makes me so damn happy to see a cake this gorgeous. I get the giggles…