Vanilla Snacking Cake with Berries and Tart Lemon Icing Soft, fluffy squares of vanilla butter cake, flavored with lemon, packed with berries, and slathered with sweet-tart lemon icing. This is a cake for picnics and cookouts, for camping trips and after school snacking. Mostly, this is a cake for whenever the craving for cake and…
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Chocolate Chip Cake with Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Icing
Soft and Fluffy Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake with Chocolate Peanut Butter Icing This easy Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake is extra soft and fluffy, with the most delicious balance of chocolate chips and buttery cake. Topped with Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Icing, it’s the kind of crowd pleasing cake recipe that’s perfect for nearly any occasion. I…
The BEST Carrot Cake Recipe made 3 ways ~ Bundt, Layer, or Cupcakes
My Favorite Homemade Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream and Caramel Rum Sauce This is the BEST Carrot Cake I’ve ever eaten. By far. The recipe is a family favorite that has been tested and perfected over several decades. The cake is delicious enough to be served on its own, but my favorite way to eat…
Lemon Layer Cake with Blackberry Italian Meringue Buttercream
8-Layer Lemon Cake with Blackberry Italian Meringue Buttercream Layer after layer of buttery yellow cake doused in Limoncello are stacked tall, separated with lemon curd, and iced with Blackberry Italian Meringue Buttercream. This 8-layer cake is spring on a plate and as delicious as it is impressive. 8-layer cakes are awesome because they are both impressive…
Banana Cream Cake
Banana Cake with Banana Cream Filling and Cream Cheese Buttercream The best banana cake I’ve ever eaten, filled with banana pastry cream and covered in cream cheese buttercream. Just like Coconut Cream Cake, this cake is soft, buttery, tender, creamy and dreamy. Just like one of my other favorite cakes, Coconut Cream Cake, this Banana…
Pistachio Cardamom Cake
Pistachio Cardamom Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream This super simple one-layer cake has a rich and creamy texture flavored with roasted pistachios, a generous amount of cardamom, and a thick layer of cream cheese buttercream. It’s somehow both casual and elegant, rustic and refined, as appropriate for a dinner party as it is for an…
Glorified Gingerbread
Old Fashioned Gingerbread This recipe for Glorified Gingerbread was handed down from my great grandmother to my grandmother to my mother to me. It’s one of those simple instant gratification recipes that requires a mere handful of pantry ingredients but delivers big on sweet, nostalgic, slices of pure comfort. This gingerbread recipe is a…
Coconut Cream Cake ~ Fluffy Coconut Cake Filled with Coconut Cream
Two Layers of Soft, Fluffy Coconut Cake filled with Coconut Cream and Covered in Coconut Buttercream This Coconut Cake is deliciously light, tender, soft, and fluffy. Two layers of cake are filled with a thick layer of coconut cream and then frosted with coconut buttercream. Every bite is so rich and creamy it practically melts…
Creamy Almond Plum Cake
Almond Plum Cake with Fresh Plums, Almond Paste, and Amaretto This delicious Almond Plum Cake tastes like a cross between cake and fruit cobbler. It is supremely moist and almost custard-like, thanks to the soft roasted sweet plums, almond paste, and a generous amount of Amaretto liquor. This Almond Plum Cake is made from three…
Lemon Olive Oil Loaf Cake with Tart Lemon Glaze
Iced Lemon Olive Oil Loaf Cake This simple lemon loaf cake is exceptionally moist, tender, and flavorful thanks to olive oil, lemon oil, and a generous blanket of tart lemon glaze. In my version of a perfect world, we would always have a freshly baked cake on hand when someone stopped by unexpectedly or on…
Perfect Pound Cake
How to Make the Perfect Buttery Pound Cake The perfect pound cake is buttery, not overly sweet, with a fine, tender crumb and a texture that’s dense but not anywhere near tough. That’s what you’ll get from this well-tested recipe. Pound cake is one of those simple, classic desserts that somehow manages to be perfect…
Olive Oil Cake with Lemon Mascarpone Pastry Cream
Incredibly Moist and Tender Cake Made with Olive Oil With a Crunchy, Sugary and Creamy Lemon Mascarpone Cream Filling This Olive Oil Cake is exceptionally moist and flavorful, with a sugary crust and deliciously fine textured crumb that’s not overly sweet. On it’s own, it’s one of my all-time favorite cakes, but split in half…
Sinfully Rich Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake
Perfect Dark Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake {Or Cupcakes!} This sinfully dark chocolate Devil’s Food Cake is so obscenely rich and fudgy that it elevates chocolate cake to a whole new level of decadence. Being bad never felt so good. This is the only chocolate cake recipe you’ll ever need. It’s so rich and fudgy that it…
Intensely Flavorful, Super Moist Spice Cake
The Perfect Spice Cake {Or, cupcakes} This is my idea of the perfect Spice Cake. It’s super moist and packed with the rich flavors of cinnamon, cardamom, allspice, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger. Dark brown sugar, applesauce, yogurt and plenty of vanilla add even MORE flavor, while also keeping it moist and extremely tender. When I…
German Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache
Rich, Caramelly German Chocolate Cupcakes Dark Chocolate Devil’s Food Cupcakes topped with a generous spoonful of rich, caramel German Chocolate topping packed with toasted pecans and coconut, and covered in a drizzle of chocolate ganache. Want to make a layer cake instead of cupcakes? Get the recipe for German Chocolate Cake. When I was a little…
Gingerbread Cake with Sugared Cranberries
Gingerbread Cake with Lemon Glaze and Sugared Cranberries This gingerbread cake is super moist and filled with the flavors of ginger, cinnamon, allspice, and molasses. The tart lemon glaze and sugared cranberries are the perfect compliment to the richness of the cake. If you like gingerbread that’s rich and flavorful, with a potent level of…
Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Buttercream
Mini Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Cream Cheese Buttercream I am totally head-over-heels in love with these little two-bite chocolate peppermint cupcakes. Rich and fudgy chocolate cupcakes covered in peppermint spiked cream cheese buttercream with a fun candy cane swirl. They are, in my mind, exactly what Christmas should taste like. Let me tell you something about…
Apple Cake with Cider Buttercream and Chocolate Ganache
Apple Cider Spice Cake with Cider Buttercream, Chocolate Ganache, and Apple Roses This Apple cake is absolutely bursting with warm apple flavor thanks to concentrated Apple Cider Syrup, shredded sour apples, and a touch of cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Apple Cider Buttercream delivers even more apple flavor and a thick, velvety layer of Dark Chocolate Ganache…
Mini Cranberry Bundt Cakes with Lemon Glaze
Bite-size Cranberry Bundt Cakes with a Tart Lemon Glaze These tiny little cranberry bundt cakes drizzled with a sweet tart lemon glaze are almost too cute to eat. Almost. Actually, not at all. I just ate four and have no qualms about going back for more. Sometimes I wonder why we relegate all things cranberry…
Lemon Ricotta Olive Oil Loaves
Tender Little Lemon Loaves made with Ricotta and Olive Oil These delicious little Lemon Ricotta Olive Oil Loaves are one of my favorite things to make any time of year, but even more so around the holidays. They are impossibly moist and tender, with a bright lemon flavor and sweet-tart lemon glaze. For a regular…