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Chocolate Layer Birthday Cake
I love making birthday cakes. Last week, I decided on a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for Mini Whipped’s first birthday. Admittedly, I chose chocolate just so the messy-face cake photos would...
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Easy Coconut Cake to Please a Crowd
This is Clint’s Mom’s Coconut Cake. I have never met her and the only thing I know about her is that she makes an addicting coconut cake. The first time I crossed its path, all circumstances were...
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Almond Tea Cake Courtesy of Kathy
I almost did not post this cake recipe tonight because I fear that it is too hot for many to turn their ovens on and by the time autumn rolls around, this cake will be long off your radars. Well,...
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Red Velvet Cake + Whipped = True Love Forever
I have been dancing the tango with Red Velvet Cake for some years now. Just when I think I can turn my face away and retire my quest for the perfect recipe, the scarlet vixen has me pressed to her...
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Devil’s Food Cake with Milk Chocolate Fudge
An unexpected gift of nearly 3 lbs. of milk chocolate, a magazine rescued from my recycling bin and a request for a birthday cake resulted in this four-layer beauty. Last week, while visiting my friend...
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Sour Cream Coffee Cake
I hope that good intentions are worth something because my initial plan to bring a warm coffee cake to a new neighbor really was a good idea. It went a little something like this… A month or so ago,...
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Triple Pink Cupcakes
Pink Power! For Mini Whipped’s third birthday, we pulled out all the stops to create a pink paradise for her special day. Clearly, nature has beat out nurture in creating my 3-year-old’s desire for all...
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Love Goddess Cake Mix from Vosges Haut-Chocolat
A revolution in baking mixes! I finally tried the Love Goddess cake mix from Vosges Haut-Chocolat. This is no Betty Crocker cake. Since I went all out with the Triple Pink Cupcakes for Mini Whipped’s...
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Pink Princess Cake
“Cheap beer? Are you kidding me!? The least you could have done was put me in here next to a nice bottle of Champagne.” All day Friday, this scene in my refrigerator made me giggle. I imagined a...
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Blueberry Cake Loaf with Streusel Topping
You will be a welcome guest if you show up for a weekend at a friend’s house with a warm blueberry loaf cake. Writing this post is a bit of self-torture. You see, I haven’t eaten sugar or white flour...
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The Best Rum Bundt Cake is the Easiest Too
After a silly turn of events and a third annual holiday party, it’s been determined that THIS is the winning rum cake. Two years ago, I was 8 months pregnant when I first attended a friend’s holiday...
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The Carrot Cake Thief
I just came across these photos from April, when I made my husband the carrot cake he had requested for his birthday. When I first posted this recipe, I claimed it was my #1 recipe and a few year’s...
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Graveyard Dirt Cake
Add a little Halloween flair to the usual Dirt Cake. This past weekend, I volunteered to make two cakes for the cake walk at our school’s fundraising event, Pumpkinpalooza. I always love an excuse to...
View ArticleRhubarb Upside-Down Cake
This is the sort of cake you should bring to a new neighbor or serve after a casual meal with friends. Not too elaborate, not too big but impressively delicious. One of the things I enjoy about...
View ArticleThe Best Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes
Now and then, I settle on a recipe that I feel needs no improvement. This one is joining that privileged club. It was thanks to an unexpected snow day this winter that we discovered this chocolate...
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Glazed Vanilla Pound Cake
I have always loved the practicality of a good pound cake. Before there were food blogs and food magazines and even before cookbooks, there was word of mouth. How practical to have a basic recipe that...
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White Sangria Cupcakes
Last week, One Hope Wine asked me to develop a recipe in honor of National Wine Day – it’s today! One Hope donates money from sales of their wine and gifts to social causes and to date, has given more...
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