Rich Guinness Cake
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...
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Ingredient: Cinnamon
Chocolate Potato Cake with “Irish Potato Candy” Frosting
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...
Apple And Potato “Cake”
This dish probably started being baked by Irish firesides in its present form about three hundred years ago. It’s perfect for those times when a home chef wants a quick...
Everyday Gingerbread with Orange-Ginger Icing
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...
Porter Cake
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...
Apple Upside Down Cake
Great for any time you’ve got lots of apples. Also great for making the best of the few you have.