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Not so nutty: Fruitcakes in Ireland

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  • Guinness
  • Irish ingredients
  • seasonal: winter
Cakes rich in fruit have always been popular in Ireland, for a number of reasons. Initially it had a lot to do with household equipment. It wasn’t until about the...

IrishDessertLady

January 10, 2018
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Rich Guinness Cake

Cooking Time: 3 hours
  • alcohol
  • cake
  • Guinness
This recipe is adapted from one in Clare Connery’s In an Irish Country Kitchen, and is light (as Irish fruitcakes go) and well balanced in terms of flavor — the...

IrishDessertLady

January 8, 2018
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Baileys Marbled Cheesecake

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  • cake
  • coffee
  • cream
  • Irish ingredients
    The “base” recipe for this rich and luscious cheesecake is derived from the famous cheesecake native to the venerable New York restaurant Lindy’s.  (More about that cheesecake’s history here.) In...

    IrishDessertLady

    November 28, 2017
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    Chocolate Potato Cake with “Irish Potato Candy” Frosting

    • cake
    • chocolate
    • potatoes
      In Maura Laverty’s tremendous 1960’s collection of traditional Irish recipes, Full and Plenty, this recipe comes with only one word of description: Rich. Our recipe is adapted from Laverty’s, which...

      IrishDessertLady

      November 26, 2017
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      GIF Irish Coffee Cake: applying the coffee / whiskey syrup

      Cooking Time: 20 min
      • cake
      • coffee
      • whiskey
        Distributing the syrup evenly to the layers…. Spoon it on slowly and spread it around, as in the image. This will need to be done at least two or three...

        IrishDessertLady

        November 26, 2017
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        Irish Coffee Cake

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        • cake
        • coffee
        • whiskey
          The reputation of the drink chef Joe Sheridan invented one cold and rainy evening in 1943 at the old seaplane base at Foynes, County Clare began to spread far and...

          IrishDessertLady

          November 26, 2017
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          Hot Whiskey Cake

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          • cake
          • whiskey
            In Ireland, when the cold weather sets in — and it’s usually wet as well — a lot of people, when they turn up at their local pub, really want...

            IrishDessertLady

            November 26, 2017
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            Irish Curd Cheeses and Cheesecakes

            • cake
            • cream
            • historic
            It would be hard to find a country where people were more in love with dairy products in general than Ireland. Historically this would have had a lot to do...

            IrishDessertLady

            July 22, 2017
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            Sweet Caraway Luncheon Loaf

            • cake
            • Everyday baking
            • fruit
            • Spices
            • tea time
            Tea cakes and quick breads featuring caraway (or caraways, as they sometimes call the seasoning here) have been popular in Ireland for hundreds of years. Possibly the best-known of these...

            IrishDessertLady

            June 15, 2017
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            Wicklow Strawberry Shortcake

            Cooking Time: 1 hr 45 mins mins
            • cake
            • cream
            • fruit
            • seasonal: summer
            The centuries-old Irish passion for strawberries in season has turned this into one of the country’s favorite desserts. The shortcake is the real deal — not some nondescript sponge cake,...

            IrishDessertLady

            June 13, 2017
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            It’s the berries

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            • cream
            • fruit
            • seasonal: summer
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            Berries of many kinds have been on the Irish dessert menu for centuries, if not millennia. Blackberries, along with raspberries, fraughans and wild strawberries, were here from the time when...

            IrishDessertLady

            June 12, 2017
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            Everyday Gingerbread with Orange-Ginger Icing

            Cooking Time: 1 hour 20 mins
            • cake
            • nonalcoholic
            • tea time
              Gingerbread would have been a perennial adornment of the tea trolley over the last century or so when the Irish housewife was doing the baking. It didn’t call for exotic...

              IrishDessertLady

              June 9, 2017
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              The Art of the Irish Tea Trolley

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              • Everyday baking
              • tea time
              There was a time in Ireland not so long ago when the arrival of a guest meant the imminent production of the Tea Trolley. Besides the teapot and cups, the...

              IrishDessertLady

              June 9, 2017
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              Porter Cake

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              • cake
              • fruit
              • Guinness
              • historic
              • Spices
                Somewhere along the line in the 1800’s, it occurred to somebody in Ireland that the dark beer called porter would make a good addition to the robust dark flavor of...

                IrishDessertLady

                June 6, 2017
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                Gurriers

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                • historic
                • Irish ingredients
                • pastry
                Everybody in Dublin knows what “gurriers” means. It’s an old word for street kids — with the implication that they’re the kind of kids who’re usually getting into mischief: messers,...

                IrishDessertLady

                May 29, 2017
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                Gur Cake

                Cooking Time: 1 h 20 min
                • cake
                • historic
                • pastry
                  Invented by Dublin bakers at the turn of the 20th century, gur cake was a way to use up unsold day-old bread or cake and still make some money from...

                  IrishDessertLady

                  May 29, 2017
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                  Apple Upside Down Cake

                  Cooking Time: 1 h 25 m
                  • cake
                  • fruit
                  • tea time
                  Great for any time you’ve got lots of apples. Also great for making the best of the few you have.

                  IrishDessertLady

                  May 26, 2017
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                  Chocolate Orange Guinness Cake

                  Cooking Time: 2 h 40 m
                  • alcohol
                  • cake
                  • chocolate
                  • citrus
                  • fruit
                  • Guinness
                  • Irish ingredients
                  Balancing the basic dark bitterness of Guinness with a dessert’s sweet ingredients is always a little tricky. But the orange in this recipe makes it easy, since oranges are great...

                  IrishDessertLady

                  May 22, 2017
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                  In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree

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                  • featured
                  • fruit
                  • seasonal: summer
                  The Irish countryside is full of surprises for the creative baker, especially when summer begins. Early apples are ripe on the trees: and the best of these are the heirloom...

                  IrishDessertLady

                  May 21, 2017
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