You don’t need a special occasion to have cake! Cake isn’t just for birthdays and baby showers. Try these cake recipes anytime you feel like celebrating – even if it is just making it through the week. Pastel Rainbow Cake, Chocolate Cake, and Jenny’s Crumb Cake are some of our favorites.
This Fruit Basket Cake is something you should consider serving at your next event. Use simple cake mixes and top it off with whipped cream and fresh fruit. Why You Will LOVE this Recipe? This cake is a really convenient dessert when you need one on the fly: How to Bake the Cake // I …
Tomorrow my best friend in the entire world and her husband are coming for a visit. I am so excited, that I can barely contain myself. We do not get to see each often enough, we talk on the phone almost every day, so we know the ins and outs of each other’s lives, but …
This lemon blueberry tea cake was a big hit here. It is sweet but has lots of tang from the lemon syrup and lemon zest. The lemon syrup makes this cake super moist, but it also adds a little crust to the outside when it hardens. When we were moving from California to Kansas, I …
Zuccotto – Pound cake brushed with amaretto and lined with chocolate cream and filled with almond whipped cream and sliced almonds. Dusted with cocoa. I have been making this Zuccotto recipe for years. I love that it is unusual, sophisticated, and really easy to make. I also enjoy that it can be made a day …
I came up with this mini almond cheesecake and baked them in half-pint Mason jars. I needed to bring a dessert to a party and thought that these would be perfect for two reasons. I have a thing for madeleines. A big thing for them. When William was a baby, we used to go to …
White Chocolate Strawberry Cake – Homemade yellow cake with whipped white chocolate ganache and sliced strawberries. Perfect for summer. Is it hot where you are? It sure is hot in Kansas. Living on the West coast, I forgot what humidity is like. Our skin looks great, but I forgot just how sticky and muggy humidity …
This Sour Cream Chocolate Bundt Cake recipe comes from America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook and it is really a delicious cake. There are undoubtedly times in one’s life that call for a hunk piece of chocolate cake. Whether you are happy, sad, depressed, stressed, or just been dumped, this chocolate cake is exactly what you …
This chocolate peanut butter cake would be perfect for a birthday. Birthdays are sort of a big deal at our house. I think that every new year should be celebrated and that everyone should have a birthday cake. When you have a few basic recipes under your belt, you can take those tried and true …