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…
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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
Light and Fluffy Coconut Cake with Coconut Cream Filling and Coconut Buttercream This coconut cake is light, tender, and exceptionally soft and fluffy. Filled with a super thick layer of coconut cream and covered in coconut buttercream, every bite is so rich and creamy it practically melts in your mouth. For those of you who are…
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
Classic Olive Oil Cake filled with Lemon Mascarpone Pastry Cream Olive Oil Cake is exceptionally moist and flavorful, with a fine, tender crumb that’s not too sweet and positively delicious. On it’s own, it’s one of my all-time favorite cakes, but split in half and filled with a thick layer of Lemon Mascarpone Pastry Cream…
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…
Lemon Berry Snack Cake
Little squares of berry snack cake with tart lemon icing Soft, fluffy squares of vanilla butter cake, flavored with lemon and berries and slathered with sweet-tart lemon icing. Sprinkles recommended. Plate and fork not required. I love the very idea of “snack” cake. Aside from the kind of little cakes you can buy at any gas…
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…
Mini Coconut Cakes with Coconut Maple Italian Meringue Buttercream
Individual Coconut Cakes frosted with Coconut Maple Buttercream These fluffy little cloud-like coconut cakes are decorated with Coconut Maple Italian Meringue Buttercream for the most adorable single-serving mini cakes ever. If you’re looking for a regular size coconut cake recipe, rather than mini cakes, check out this Coconut Cream Cake. It’s just a couple of…
Mini Chai Cupcakes with Italian Meringue Buttercream
Mini Chai Latte Cupcakes with White Chocolate & Chai Italian Meringue Buttercream These delicious little two-bite, Mini Cupcakes are flavored with vanilla and chai, and frosted with White Chocolate & Chai Italian Meringue Buttercream. Why Mini? I’ve been feeling like Christmas is a bit much. There’s an over exaggerated emphasis on more. Spend more, do more, eat…
Cranberry Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Individual Cranberry Pineapple Upside Down Cakes with Brown Sugar Caramel Glaze Buttery little Cranberry Pineapple Upside Down Cakes baked with pineapple slices, tart cranberry sauce, and gooey brown sugar caramel glaze. OMG. THESE CRANBERRY PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKES ARE SO GOOD. This recipe makes 6 little individual sized cakes. And yet, you will not see…