Dessert

If you’ve ever had store-bought styrofoam angel food cake, you know how well-worth the work of making one at home can be. Light, airy, heavenly even, this versatile cake is best served with whipped cream and strawberries. This recipe is not Babcia’s, but it is similar. If anyone has her […]

Angel Food Cake

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged angel / cake / dessert / vegetarian by Linden Desai

There is no strawberry stealing the spotlight in this pie – it is all rhubarby goodness. I remember finding out that the rhubarb pie recipe is actually the neighbours (Mrs. Bechard)! She gave in and told when mom and I asked for the recipe. She couldn’t remember and directed us […]

Rhubarb Pie

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged dessert / pie / rhubarb / vegetarian by Linden Desai

These were a special treat. Babcia’s cakes were the best in the biz, but when these cherry squares came out, all bets were off! Cherry squares were always my absolute favourite! I remember Babcia would have a tupperware container full and I would stand next to it having “just one […]

Cherry Squares

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged cherry / cherry squares / dessert / pie / squares / vegetarian by Linden Desai

We still need a recipe for angel wings. If anyone has it, we would love to include it! Thanks in advance. Email it to recipes@jennyscakes.org

Chrusciki

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged angel wings / chrusciki / cookies / dessert / vegetarian by Linden Desai

Jello is traditionally a dessert food. Somehow, at Tomaszewski gatherings, it never makes it passed the main course. While eating jello with warm foods can be a challenge (can’t let them leak onto the pierogi!), it would feel wrong to eat a Wigilia dinner without it! 100% Polish recipe (or […]

Polish Jello

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged dessert / jello / polish jello by Linden Desai

This is possibly the most versatile polish recipe. You can eat crepes for breakfast with syrup or peanut butter, for lunch with meat or savory fillings, or dessert with sweetened cottage cheese and fruit. These thin pancakes offer a world of possibilities! This recipe is from the Art of Polish […]

Nalesniki

9 Dec, 2016 in Breakfast / Dessert / Lunch & Dinner tagged breakfast / crepes / dinner / lunch / nalesniki / pancake / vegetarian by Linden Desai

Black forest cake.. The most famous of all the Babcia cakes! We have all had this baked good more times than we can count, and now we can attempt to make it ourselves! I remember my mom and others telling me about how sick of black forest cake they got. […]

Black Forest Cake

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged black forest / cake / dessert / vegetarian by Linden Desai