Mocca Oatmeal Cake Recipe

Iadore oats: the flavor, the texture, the ease of preparation, the low price, the nutritional assets: Everything! those of you who have my latest cookbook  know there’s absolutely nothing I don’t do with them, including mudpacks, which I don’t eat and don’t feed anyone: Thank G-d for small blessings, sure beats the expensive facials! Soups, [...]

Orange Poppy Seed Cake Recipe

My daughter in law Elisheva’s favorite cake. Would you believe it? My orange poppy seed cake, taken from my first book, Levana’s Table,  has been on top of Google search for eight years running! Just read the all the rave reviews for it: What Nachas! Equally at home for breakfast and dessert, too! This cake [...]

Chocolate Jasmine Marble Cake Recipe

Submit to the seduction of Chocolate and jasmine! Ingredients: 3 cups flour: all-purpose, whole pastry, or spelt 1 tablespoon baking powder Good pinch salt 11/2 cups sugar 1 cup natural margarine spread (health food stores) 4 eggs 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 3/4 cup strong jasmine tea (2 jasmine tea bags or 2 teaspoons jasmine tea [...]

Hannah Kaminsky: Vegan Desserts

You will all love Hannah Kaminsky’s luscious new Vegan Dessert Book: The girl can not only bake, she can also take fabulous pix, as you can plainly see above. I had the pleasure of working with her when she did the food styling for the pictures of my new cookbook. Oh I know what you [...]

Carrot Cake Recipe

Our award-winning cake, circa 1980. Ideally moist and fragrant. I believe all old timers at Levana then-Bakery remember it well. My mother used to get such a kick out of this recipe. She would ask, “Why not a turnip cake or a tomato cake, while you are trying to be creative?” She didn’t know she [...]

LEVANA COOKS WITH OSEM’S MATZAH PRODUCTS: CHOCOLATE BEET COCONUT CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE ICING RECIPE

  It is unfortunate that in America, beets invariably conjure up loaded remarks about, uhmmm, never mind . . . I am always looking for ways to sneak them in, as in this cake, where they do their magic even while they totally escape detection: The result is this dense, moist, and deliciously funky cake. [...]

Chocolate Hazelnut Moussse Torte Recipe

Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Torte I have made hundreds of these for parties. A few years ago, a couple whose wedding I was catering wanted this very cake, but luxuriously decorated to their specifications on their wedding day (don’t worry, the above picture is not the wedding cake!). I remember we helped the cake stylist they [...]

Upcoming Cooking Demo in NYC: Monday December 13th: The Natural Dessert Party

Recently my granddaughter described a birthday party she went to, and added it was so annoying to have to wipe off that green and red and blue gook from those cupcake tops: “Bubbie, why do they need that?” Indeed, why? Here is the PC birthday party fare, the delicious, fun, pretty and natural way, made [...]

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Sauce Recipe

At a recent shabbos dinner my table was crammed with chocolate addicts: since this is an addiction we can easily admit to, and with no need to get apologetic, I decided to make an all-chocolate dessert course. A chocolate orgy, you might think, and who could blame you, but believe it or not,  it was [...]

Orange Honey Cake Recipe

A little kitschy, right? Just this once, please! I actually succeed in turning quite a few people on to my honey cake. Mine is moist and spicy and easy to love; I trust it will make you forget all the indignities of past dried-out and brittle honey cakes. I make it several ways, all scrumptious, [...]