Author: Leo Suarez

Here we are. The last item from the Lemon Cake list. And just like the game, where you get the Lemon Cake recipe at the end, we ended it all with a Lemon Cake. And what better place to get one then from Once in a Blue Moon Bakery. Also, we were happy to serve…

We thought it pretty interesting that we couldn’t find Lemon Sorbet at any restaurant throughout the year. I would have sworn that seeing this at an Italian restaurant would have been easy but, at least in Raleigh, this didn’t seem to be the case. No problem, we made it at home in a loaf tin.…

All year, we would look at bakery selections and dessert menus and simply could not find a slice of blueberry cheesecake. With the year winding down, you need to just bite the bullet and order a whole cake. With a family dinner one night, we brought dessert from Custom Confections in Cary. It was the…

Here’s another one where we stretched a bit but in the end, who cares cause it was delicious. The Lemon Cake game has a Honey Macaron on the menu but all year, we simply could not come across a macaron made with honey. So we gave up and just got a few macarons in great…

We’ve been kicking this challenge into high gear recently as we are running out of 2024! Here’s a case where we had to stttrreeeetccchh it a little bit. We could not find a true cherry jelly so had to settle for some jelly-filled donuts in whatever flavor we could find. Does it count? Maybe not…

The Lemon Wafer was a challenge but we settled on getting a pack of Lemon Moravian Cookies from Dewey’s Bakery, which is based here in North Carolina. The perfect place to buy them was at one of the shops at the NC Farmer’s Market. You could go crazy in here with the amount of good…