Culinary Recipes — dessert

for the cake:

2 cups cake flour, sifted

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon turmeric

2 tablespoons mild curry powder

1/2 cup golden raisins (I personally soaked them in Sailor Jerry's for 24 hours...but you do you)

1/4 cup unsweetened large coconut flakes

1/4 cup of candied ginger, chopped into pieces the same size as the raisins

2 tablespoons butter, plus more for the pan

1/3 cup vegetable shorteneing

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs, well beaten

1 (10.5oz) caned condensed tomato soup

for the icing:

1/4 cup powdered sugar

2 tbsp Apricot Ginger Jam (3 if you want it more bold)

3 tbsp or more Heavy Cream

• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 2 cups boiling water
• 2-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2-1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1-1/2 tsp vanilla
• ⅔ cup LAJ blueberry basil jam

A stop at Musso & Frank is Hollywood is a MUST if you ever come to LA. I was honored when 10 years ago they took the 100 year old recipe to "update it" and the ONLY change was to add my jam. :-) 

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 (4-inch) puff pastry rounds
• 3 tablespoons of cinnamon sugar
• 1/2 c powdered sugar
• 2 cups of Laura Ann's Strawberry Vanilla Jam
• 1/2 pint of fresh strawberries