• Gamerbetty on April 21, 2024

  The cold oven cake is to die for. My new favorite. The crumb is perfect and it tastes amazing.

Notes about Recipes in this book

• Starchies (Sequilhos/Biscoitos de maizena)

  • AngelNewsi on August 13, 2023

    The recipe is super simple to make, which is great, but the ingredient ratios are off. The initial flavor was wonderful, but the cookie soon turned to cement as I chewed and sucked all the moisture out of my mouth. By the end, all you could taste was raw cornstarch. My husband looked up similar recipes and found that most called for a quarter-cup less cornstarch than this did. There's also no done indicator in the instructions so I had to guess when to pull them out of the oven. I do plan to try again, but with the lower cornstarch amount.

  • Sparkles75 on August 22, 2023

    This was the first recipe I made too and I agree with AngelNewsi. There is something very interesting about these cookies but my first thought when tasting was “there is too much cornflour in these” but I could see these being deceptively delicious if the ratio was correct. I had never heard of these so will investigate other versions to try

• Chocolate potato cake

  • hnordhed on November 28, 2023

    Made this recipe using my leftover mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving dinner. The Cake was moist and the texture was excellent, much less dense than I expected. The flavor was very good too. I need to be more patient making the icing next time, since I apparently didn't beat it enough and it was very grainy. But the icing was full of fudgy flavor!

• Banana oatmeal cookies

  • savorytart on December 09, 2023

    In the book, the recipe's ingredients list calls for 1 cup granulated sugar, but the recipe's description specifically mentions brown sugar: "sweetly flavored by brown sugar, cinnamon, and banana."

• Mock apple pie

  • Kelli_L on April 22, 2024

    This pie was fun to make. Extremely sweet but surprisingly it tasted similar to apple pie. Very amusing to find family members not suspecting the lack of apples.

• Cornflake macaroons

  • znorman on August 21, 2023

    These were a hit with my family and a good way to use up some extra egg whites.

• Melting moments

  • KCKB on October 18, 2023

    This cookie looks like it will be very similar to something called “Swedish cookies” that I grew up eating. They, in turn, are a simplified version of Pariserwafier. Eager to try these and compare them.

• Cocomalt cheesecake

  • Kitchenlittle on July 10, 2024

    The cottage cheese came through more than I would have liked.