Easy Lemon Olive Oil Cake with Lemon Curd and Meringue

This Lemon Olive Oil Cake is tender, soft and super moist. It’s a simple cake recipe that you can make in about an hour any time you are craving a sweet and easy bite. But the addition of the lemon curd in the batter and a crowning mellow meringue on top make this a showstopper for any special occasion! It’s simply a crowdpleaser!

If you have never baked a cake with olive oil, you are missing out badly! Baking cakes with olive oil is perfectly fine. You know I love olive oil cakes. The lightness…

sweet eats, cake recipesDev AmadeoOctober 9, 2023lemon curd, lemon, lemons, olive oil, meringue, summer Comments

Lemon Basil Olive Oil Cake

You may think of this as a classic lemon olive oil cake, but then each bite has the sweet and aromatic notes of basil. Doesn’t it sound delicious?! This cake is very soft, moist, supple and lemony. It’s the cake for lemon lovers because it has lemon juice and lemon zest all over it! The cake itself is made in less than 45 minutes, including prep time, and you only need a few basic ingredients to make it. A super creamy buttercream with a touch of lemon and cream cheese is, literally, the icing on the cake!

sweet eats, cake recipesDev AmadeoAugust 15, 2023make ahead desserts, lemon, lemons, basil, spring, summer, olive oil, citrus Comments

Peach Cream Cheese Puff Pastry Tarts

This Peach Cream Cheese Puff Pastry Tart recipe is so ridiculously easy, I can see you making it every time you want to make something cute and super delicious for breakfast in no time! It uses frozen puff pastry dough sheets and each tart has a sweet cream cheese filling. I used juicy fresh peaches for that peaches-n-creme feel, but you can use apricots, nectarines or even plums. It doesn't require for you to spend hours in the kitchen or lots of ingredients. This is a recipe that will never let you down.

When I crossed paths with some sweet juicy fresh peaches I thought immediately about making this recipe. I know the vibrant peach color will sweeten the soul and brighten anything. Maybe that’s why…

Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

This ice cream you guys!! It’s your favorite cheesecake in a cone! This eggless ice cream is loaded with fresh blueberries for a nice burst of freshness every time you bite one. It has lots of graham cracker pieces for that crunchy texture we all love from a good cheesecake. Each spoonful you take is super creamy, tangy, rich and extra flavorful! You and your people won’t been able to stop eating this stuff!

If you are wondering how cream cheese tastes in an ice cream, let me tell you it’s a match made in Heaven that you don’t want to miss out! It’s precisely the tanginess of the cream cheese that balances out the sweetness from the sugar and fruits and the fat from the heavy cream. Cream cheese also adds a lot of viscosity to the ice cream texture, making it creamier than anything else.

This blueberry cheesecake ice cream has no eggs. It’s made with heavy cream that was…

Blueberry Curd Cheesecake Tart

Of all the ways you can enjoy all the sweetness of blueberries, inside a creamy luscious cheesecake has to be one of my favorites! Topped with a smooth blueberry curd to make every bite even more bright and bursting with flavor, this blueberry cheesecake tart is going to be your new favorite dessert! Chilled to perfection so it will cool you down during this summertime!

I always have so much fun making layered desserts. I love that they’re so easy to put together! But probably what I love the most about them is that you can put two or even more things in one container. In life we’re never just one thing, right?. We are built in layers. This is so very true for me. I wouldn't be able…

Puerto Rican Style Sweet Cornbread

Even if we call it cornbread as in “pan de maíz”, this is a sweet corn loaf cake that is sweet, soft and tender. It’s made with a mix of flour and cornmeal and other basic baking ingredients that I’m sure are in your home right now. You’ll find this cake at any Puerto Rican bakery and it’s mostly eaten as breakfast or at mid afternoon during coffee break. I have so many memories around this humble cake, but even if you are trying it for the first time, it will warm your soul for sure!

Corn bread, along with “quesitos”, has to be one of the first baked sweets I fell in love with. From a very young age, I would visit a…

sweet eats, cake recipesDev AmadeoJune 16, 2022puerto rico, cornbread, loaf cakes, summer Comments

White Forest Cake

If you are already spotting cherries, don’t waste any other day and make this sumptuous White Forest Cake! This is a very fluffy, moist and soft white sponge cake with a very delicate crumb, thanks to using cake flour and some white chocolate in the batter. It’s soaked in a simple cherry syrup, filled with a homemade liquor-spiked cherry compote and covered with a light and soft whipped cream frosting. It’s a dream of a cake!

For me cooking has always been about celebrating whatever my present is. I can assure you that the time that you have at the moment and the ingredients you have right in front of you will always be enough for creating something special and exciting. I have to admit I’m not big on seasonality. I live in an island in the middle…

sweet eats, cake recipesDev AmadeoJune 9, 2022make ahead desserts, cherries, white chocolate, whipped cream, summerComment

White Chocolate and Macadamia Brookies

You are going to love these brookie bars. Brownies and cookies combined!! What’s not to love about that?! They’re super gooey and decadent and I promise you won’t be able to eat just one! The brownie layer has mini chocolate chips for a fudgy texture and the cookie layer is full of white chocolate chips and roasted macadamia nuts, so not only we are combining brownies and cookies together, we are combining dark chocolate and white chocolate as well. It’s the best of so many worlds!!

What are brookies in the first place? Brookies are a mix of brownie batter and cookie dough baked together. There are recipes that layer both batters up, as I did here, and there are…

bars and cookies recipes, sweet eatsDev AmadeoMay 25, 2022chocolate, white chocolate, brownies, cookies, summer, brown sugar, nutsComment

Honey Banana Cake

You are going to be buzzing around this honey banana cake until the last bit of crumb. The honey makes this cake earthy, the bananas make it super soft and tender and a light touch of cinnamon makes it warm and spicy. It’s done in 50 minutes from prep to baked. Its crumb is tight and soft, perfect for a snacking cake. Dust a bit of confectioner’s sugar on top and have a piece any time of the day! Yes, with a smear of Nutella it makes a perfect breakfast!

For this honey banana cake I use my classic honeycomb cake pan. I have a very special connection with this cake pan. It’s so beloved to me! This was one…

sweet eats, cake recipesDev AmadeoMay 19, 2022an hour or less, honey, bananas, summer, brown sugarComment

Guava Panetelas

Guava panetelas or “panetelas de guayaba” are cake bars made with a very dense cake batter that is filled in the middle with guava paste. They are very traditional here in Puerto Rico, everyone loves them! You only need 10 ingredients and that’s including the salt, and probably less than 40 minutes to have them in your mouth. Even if this is a dense cake batter, the crumb is soft and buttery and you won’t be able to eat just one!

Lemon Curd Cheesecake Tart with Basil Lemon Crust

This lemon curd cheesecake tart recipe is very, very creamy and full of lemon flavor! Besides all the lemon in the silky lemon curd, it has lemon zest in the crust as well. I also infused the crust with basil and it brings out the lemon flavor beautifully, besides adding a floral and fresh note to every bite. It’s a super easy make-ahead dessert. This tart is so happy and vibrant, it will make you smile with every bite!

Homemade Creamy Dulce de Leche Ice Cream

This 4 ingredients dulce ice cream recipe is so, so creamy and smooth you wont’ believe it’s made with no-eggs. It has dulce de leche in the ice cream mixture and dulce de leche swirls for an intense dulce de leche caramel flavor in every spoon you take. And it has brownie pieces inside to make it even better! You can make this ice cream two ways, no-churn or with an ice cream machine. Either way it’s going to be pure decadence and just the best homemade dulce del leche ice cream you could taste!

sweet eatsDev AmadeoAugust 7, 2021summer, chocolate, ice creamComment