Tag: cake

A Year of Gratitude – February 27, 2024

A Year of Gratitude – February 27, 2024

My gratitude was a gift I gave myself for my birthday today. I turned 51. It’s an age that the world tells me I should whisper, but here I am sharing it loudly with thousands of you. I am, as always, the youngest I will Read More

Cookies and Cream Buttercream Frosting

Cookies and Cream Buttercream Frosting

This cookies and cream buttercream frosting is a delicious way to add flavor and texture to cakes, sheet cakes, or cupcakes.

Simple Chocolate Buttermilk Cake

Simple Chocolate Buttermilk Cake

This is a simple kitchen counter cake, the kind grandma might have made to entice you to stay a bit longer when you stopped by for a visit. She knew the power of a simple Chocolate Buttermilk Cake. I do too.

Boston Cream Pie Sheet Cake

Boston Cream Pie Sheet Cake

Monday was Patriots’ Day. It’s a special day here in New England, a celebration of a truly unique nature. The day includes a day game at Fenway Park, the annual running of The Boston Marathon, and reenactments of the first battles of The Revolutionary War Read More

Flourless Chocolate Cake with Brown Sugar Meringue Topping

Flourless Chocolate Cake with Brown Sugar Meringue Topping

If you’re looking for a showstopping dessert, this flourless chocolate cake with brown sugar meringue topping is it. It’s beautiful, delicious, and naturally gluten free. It makes a dramatic end to any meal and looks like a dessert that you made a trip to a fine bakery to purchase.

Hot Fudge Cupcakes

Hot Fudge Cupcakes

I have always enjoyed making recipes that are favored by members of my family. I like to bake and baking something that I know is someone or everyone’s favorite adds to the joy I feel while baking. Now, more than ever, I find myself trying Read More

Chocolate Mug Cake in the Microwave

Chocolate Mug Cake in the Microwave

I keep this chocolate mug cake mix in the pantry so that I can make a single serving of chocolate cake any time I want. It only takes minutes thanks to the microwave which means that you’re only moments away from warm, gooey chocolate cake!

Quick and Easy Buttermilk Cake

Quick and Easy Buttermilk Cake

This quick and easy buttermilk cake can be mixed by hand and will be ready for the oven in minutes. It’s as easy as making a cake from a boxed mix.

Buttermilk Sponge Cake

Buttermilk Sponge Cake

There are few recipes as versatile as a great sponge cake to have in your recipe collection.  It can be used with so many different combinations of fillings, frostings, and toppings that the possibilities are deliciously endless.  D

Old Fashioned Pound Cake

Old Fashioned Pound Cake

Pound cake is the simplest of recipes yet creates something that seems extravagant, rich, and delicious.  The recipe is simple purely out of necessity.  Pound cake dates back to Britain in the early 1700s.  At that time, many citizens couldn’t read and write, so the Read More

Boston Cream Pie

Boston Cream Pie

Boston Cream Pie has always been one of my favorite desserts.  It’s difficult to beat the combination of a light sponge cake layered with vanilla pastry cream and topped with chocolate ganache.  It wins on flavor and appearance in my book. Sure, it isn’t really Read More

How to Make A Heart-Shaped Cake

How to Make A Heart-Shaped Cake

This time of year, everything seems to be heart-shaped.  From candies to baked goods and every sort of decorative item.  ‘Tis the season, I suppose.  Unfortunately, so many of these heart-shaped and Valentine’s Day themed projects, crafts, and recipes involve detailed steps and specialty supplies Read More