Cake

Classic Gingerbread Cake Recipe

December 2, 2011 |

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I positively love the flavor of ginger. Whether it’s pickled ginger with sushi, ginger ale (mint ginger ale is a favorite variety of mine), candied ginger or ultimate ginger cookies, if it has ginger in it, there’s a 99.9% chance I’m going to love it. Which is why it’s so shocking (and wrong) that up [...]

Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

November 9, 2011 |

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Ahh, more pumpkin! I can’t get enough. I have to pack it all in before Thanksgiving because after that I’m all-in with Christmas – cookies, candy and homemade gifts. I can’t wait! But for now, a little more pumpkin I realized that, surprisingly, I haven’t shared a classic pumpkin bar recipe with you yet. I [...]

Cranberry Upside-Down Cake

November 8, 2011 |

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T-minus 16 days until Thanksgiving! How is your menu coming along? When I stumbled upon this cake a couple of weeks ago I immediately thought that it would make a great Thanksgiving (or Christmas, if you’re really planning ahead!) dessert; a perfect alternative to the traditional pumpkin and pecan pies. It’s festive and includes traditional [...]

Honey Cake

September 29, 2011 |

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We all know I’m an Italian girl through and through, but today and tomorrow I’m featuring a couple of traditional Jewish recipes in honor of the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashana, which began last night at sundown, and concludes tomorrow at sundown. I’ve become increasingly interested in Jewish cuisine over the last year or so, [...]

How to Make a Rainbow Cake

September 14, 2011 |

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This past weekend I made a 2nd birthday cake for the nephew of one of my best friends. The decorations they wanted were fairly simple – a lot of bright, primary colors (much like what was used on the clown smash cake), with a train track running around the outside of the cake. The train [...]

Lego Batman Birthday Cake

July 12, 2011 |

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I made this birthday cake over 4th of July weekend for a little boy’s 4th birthday. He is a big fan of Batman and Lego’s, so his mom wanted to incorporate both into the cake. She wanted the tiers to be the basic primary colors – blue, red and yellow – that are characteristic of [...]

Angel Food Cake

June 29, 2011 |

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For as much of a chocoholic as I am today, angel food cake was one of my all-time favorite desserts when I was growing up. As far as I can remember, no one in my family made them from scratch, but they were a Sunday staple at my grandma’s house during the summer. I always [...]

Root Beer Float Cake

May 26, 2011 |

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Root beer floats. Cake. Root beer float cake. Totally genius. And so delicious. I adore root beer floats. Actually, floats of any kind. I have been known to throw a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a bowl and pour Diet Coke over it. There are many things I am not above doing all in [...]

Top 10 List: Favorite Cake Recipes

May 9, 2011 |

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A couple of weeks ago I decided to put together a series of posts highlighting my favorite recipes from some categories where I have dozens to choose from. I started the series with my favorite cookies, and last week asked fans on Facebook to choose between cakes and ice cream for the next installment. The [...]

Chocolate Biscuit Cake {Royal Wedding Groom Cake}

April 29, 2011 |

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Happy Royal Wedding Day, folks! In just a few short hours Will & Kate will be saying their “I Do’s” and a vast majority of the world will be watching, no doubt bleary-eyed, waiting to see what the bride will be wearing and awing at the pomp and circumstance. I, for one, did not set [...]