Cocoa powder, chocolate chips, cinnamon, pecans, and carrots create a showstopper cake, made even better with the addition of chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Ingredients

There are a lot of ingredients in this recipe, but the nice thing is that they are almost all pantry basics.

I grew up eating rustic, unfrosted cakes that got their flavor from fruit and nuts – think apple cake with fresh apples on top, banana cake (which I now make as banana cupcakes), and walnut sour cream coffee cake. We had an ever-present honey jar and Dad would sometimes forgo cake entirely for toasted nuts drenched in honey.

While we never had this particular pear cake, it tastes like home.

Eat this pastry warm right out of the oven as a special fall brunch or snack on it all day long like I do!

Ingredients

There’s no skimping on the ingredients in this recipe. I pack the strudel with so much filling that it’s almost bursting!

I love how it’s simple enough for a Sunday morning treat, but impressive enough to serve for company.

Ingredients

This tart has three main components:

Are Acorns Edible

Yes! Acorns are edible. However, before eating one, you’ll need to remove, or leach out, the tannins. Not only is there is the possibility that the tannins could give you an upset stomach, they also taste like dish soap.

Once the tannins are removed, you can turn the acorns into flour or dry them and roast them to eat like other nuts.