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 cake is spring on a plate and as delicious as it is impressive. 8-layer cakes are awesome because they are both impressive AND…
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Italian Meringue Buttercream {Step-by-Step Instructions}
How to Make Perfect Italian Meringue Buttercream Italian Meringue Buttercream is my all time favorite frosting for cakes and cupcakes. It’s silky smooth, incredibly creamy, and absolutely gorgeous to work with. Even better is how good this buttercream tastes. After over 20 years of making this amazing meringue based buttercream, I’ve yet to have one…
1 Hour Caramel Cupcake Recipe
Perfect Buttermilk Caramel Cupcakes in 1-Hour These perfect little buttermilk caramel cupcakes are the kind of thing that you can have a hankering for at 3pm and be eating by 4pm. It’s one of those quick, no fail recipes that I find myself coming back to over and over again because the cupcakes are just…
Bananas Foster Butter Cake ~ St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake
St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake with Bananas Foster Sauce This cake was born out of the pages of a Stephenie Meyer novel. More about that later. This Bananas Foster Butter Cake is basically St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake topped with Bananas Foster Sauce. If you’ve never had St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake, you’re in for a treat….
Buttery Brown Sugar Crumb Cake {with a LOT of crumb}
Crumb Cake that’s All About the Crumb The Cake is not actually the point of crumb cake. Good crumb cake is aaaallllll about the crumb, which should be buttery, brown sugar sweet, and piled on in excess. Streuselkuchen. That’s the German name for crumb cake. More accurately, I should say that crumb cake is the…
Irish Apple Cake ~ Apple Cake with Custard Sauce
Traditional Irish Apple Cake Recipe with Custard Sauce Tart, crisp apples suspended in tender vanilla spice cake with a crunchy sugar topping and creamy vanilla custard sauce. I have never been to Ireland but it’s on my list of must-visit places for so many reasons, not the least of which is Irish food. I mean, from…
Red Velvet Cake or Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Buttercream & Ganache
Buttery Red Velvet Layer Cake or Cupcakes, with Cream Cheese Buttercream & Chocolate Ganache Buttery three-layer Red Velvet Cake or Red Velvet Cupcakes, slathered with Perfect Cream Cheese Buttercream and drizzled with Chocolate Ganache. This recipe creates super fluffy and tender cake, with just the right amount of chocolate flavor and red color. I love…
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream & Caramel Rum Sauce
Carrot Cake Layer Cake, Bundt Cake, or Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Buttercream and Salted Caramel Rum Sauce This one tested and perfected Carrot Cake Recipe is all you need to bake up a delicious Carrot Cake Layer Cake, Bundt Cake, or Cupcakes – all slathered with Cream Cheese Buttercream & Salted Caramel Rum Sauce. Years…
Chocolate Blackout Cake
The Chocolate Cake to Top All Chocolate Cakes If you are the kind of person who believes there is no such thing as too much chocolate, Chocolate Blackout Cake has got your number. Three sinfully fudgy Devil’s Food Cakes are layered with rich Chocolate Pastry Cream and then covered with a thick layer of Chocolate…
Black Forest Cake
German Black Forest Gateau Every bite of this Black Forest Cake is loaded with creamy chocolate and juicy cherries. Three deep, dark, rich and chocolaty Devil’s Food cakes are doused with cherry liquor, layered with sweetened vanilla whipped cream and tart Morello cherries, and topped with dark chocolate ganache. If you’re a chocolate and cherry…
German Chocolate Cake
Rich German Chocolate Cake with Caramel, Pecan, and Coconut Filling and Milk Chocolate Ganache This German Chocolate Cake is all about rich chocolate fudge cake, warm caramel filling with toasted pecans and sweet coconut, and milk chocolate ganache. Fun fact. German Chocolate cake is not actually German. The cake is a totally American invention. Here’s…
Devil’s Food Cake
Perfect Dark Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake 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 blurs the…
Cream Cheese Buttercream
Perfect Cream Cheese Buttercream Cream Cheese Buttercream is a gorgeous creamy blend of cream cheese and butter, sweetened with confectioners sugar, and flavored with vanilla and a touch of sour cream. Cream Cheese Buttercream is one of those magical confections that is as delicious as it is simple and easy to make. You basically…
Black and White Chocolate Marble Cake
Dark and White Chocolate Marble Cake with Chocolate Fondant Icing Swirls of rich, flavorful dark chocolate and white chocolate cake covered in chocolate fondant and decorated with malted milk balls. Simple. Pretty. Dramatic. Delicious. I LOVE it when readers request recipes. First of all, it’s a lovely compliment when someone searches the blog for a…
Almond Plum Cake
Almond Plum Cake with Amaretto and Whipped Mascarpone This simple 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 of my…
Mini Lime Pound Cakes
Mini Lime Pound Cakes with Coconut Oil, Rum, and Tart Lime Icing Tender, sweet little lime pound cakes brushed with rum and covered in a buttery tart icing. Mother Nature tried to blow Colorado into Kansas yesterday and I’m pretty sure we’ve had more snow in the past couple of weeks than we had in…
Olive Oil Cake with Lemon Mascarpone Cream
Two Layers of Tender Olive Oil Cake filled with Lemon Mascarpone Cream. This Olive Oil Cake is moist and flavorful, with a soft, tender crumb that’s not too sweet. It’s perfectly delicious all on it’s own, completely unadorned aside from its crackling sugary top. But, split in half and filled with a thick layer of…
Blueberry Crumb Cake
Blueberry Swirl Crumb Coffee Cake. Blueberry sauce is swirled into tender butter cake and topped with a generous layer of New York style crumbs for a blueberry crumb cake that’s perfectly at home at the breakfast table, next to your afternoon mug of coffee or tea, or sliced up and served for dessert after dinner….
Cranberry Pineapple Upside Down Cake
🎶 on the tenth day of christmas, my true love gave to me… 10 cranberry pineapple upside down cakes… 9 mini lemon tarts 8 mini coconut cakes 7 tiny slices of almond cake 6 eggnog pots de creme 5 chocolate peppermint mini cupcakes 4 mini cranberry bundt cakes 3 mini lemon ricotta loaves 2 mini sorghum…
Mini Coconut Cakes with Coconut Maple Italian Meringue Buttercream
🎶 on the eighth day of christmas, my true love gave to me… 8 mini coconut cakes… 7 tiny slices of almond cake 6 eggnog pots de creme 5 chocolate peppermint mini cupcakes 4 mini cranberry bundt cakes 3 mini lemon ricotta loaves 2 mini sorghum ginger cookies and a mini chai latte cupcake. 🎶 Day 8 of…