Apple Pie Cake While we would never let the fall or winter get away from us without making an apple pie, truth is that it is sometimes too lengthy a process and yet we crave those flavors of apples, sugar and cinnamon in dessert form. This Apple Pie Cake from Camilla Saulsbury comes together […]
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Olive Oil Cranberry Cakes with Candied Oranges
Olive Oil Cranberry Cakes with Candied Oranges We don’t bake enough with olive oil. (Reminder to self to make our Goat Cheese Raspberry Muffins with Walnuts and Olive Oil). It not only provides heart-healthy fat, but it is damn delicious. Another surprise is who knew Kelis could cook? That’s right, Kelis of “Milkshake” fame […]

Caramel–Apple Pound Cakelettes
Caramel–Apple Pound Cakelettes You will need mini-Bundt pans for this recipe for the visual effect. Well worth the effort to seek one out. You will use the pans for any and all pound cake and coffee type cakes in your repertoire for generous single sized portions. Jocelyn Delk-Adams brings us this recipe, […]

Cinnamon Roll Pound Cake
Cinnamon Roll Pound Cake When I first read the headnote below, I thought it said, “Before that movement”, as in the-movement-of-adoring-cinnamon-rolls. Made sense to me. Those who crave and worship the cinnamon roll form a strong lobby. The smell of cinnamon wafting from the oven co-mingled with butter and dairy aromas is hard […]

Coffee Caramel Chocolate Poke Cake
Coffee Caramel Chocolate Poke Cake The flavors of this cake are grown-up and a little bit fancy, but the preparation is super simple thanks to Jennifer McHenry’s 5 ingredient approach and her book Quick-Shop-&-Prep 5 Ingredient Baking. Her Apple Pecan Tassies are also very simple to make and perfect for the fall and winter months. Excerpted […]

Coney Island Cheesecake
Coney Island Cheesecake Cheesecakes never go out of style or demand. Doesn’t matter what the current diet fad is or the season, cheesecakes are always popular. And as they lend themselves to tweaking and reinvention, versions abound…but we bet you have never seen one like this! Rosie Alyea has used animal crackers and […]

French Lemon Cake with Lemon Glaze
French Lemon Cake with Lemon Glaze We love simple cakes. No extravagant buttercream needed. This is the kind of cake that works well for tea, brunch, a snack or dessert. Serve some berries alongside, or enjoy as is. This French Lemon Cake is as versatile as it is amazing – it is made in […]

Praline-Pumpkin Cheesecake
Praline-Pumpkin Cheesecake We are pumpkin crazy these days. It is one of our favorite fall flavors and its ultra-smooth and rich texture harmonizes beautifully in a cheesecake. This luscious holiday-esque creation is made in a slow cooker. That’s right! You didn’t read that wrong. The slow, even temperature of the slow cooker does wonders for […]

The Perfect Stormy Cake
The Perfect Stormy Cake We love this coffee cake from Kim Kushner’s book The New Kosher. Her Perfect Stormy Cake is indeed a perfect storm of flavors and textures: nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon, cocoa and chocolate chips with a moist batter made with sour cream or yogurt. It comes together quickly and our testers raved. […]

Peaches and Cream Dump Cake from Scratch
Peaches and Cream Dump Cake from Scratch I became a bit obsessed with the concept of dump cakes, but not the reality. Let me explain. One Google pass at the term and what comes up again and again and again are cakes using goopy sweet canned fruit, cake mixes and the like. Not the way […]

Chocolate Mango Pound Cake
Chocolate Mango Pound Cake This Chocolate Mango Pound Cake is from Senegal: Modern Senegalese Recipes from the Source to the Bowlby Pierre Thiam with Jennifer Sit along with the Coconut-Lime-Palm Ice Cream. This is a rustic cake, as you can see in the image, and I love the fact that it is allowed – […]

Blueberry Coconut Bundt Cake
Blueberry Coconut Bundt Cake This Blueberry Coconut Bundt Cake is the second cake I made in my new Bundt Squared Pan. (Check out the Brown Sugar Pecan Cake with Caramelized Nectarines for another take on this great new piece of equipment). Simple cakes made in decorative pans have been my thing recently ever since […]

Brown Sugar Pecan Cake with Caramelized Nectarines
Brown Sugar Pecan Cake with Caramelized Nectarines Sometimes I get inspired by an ingredient but other times it might be a new piece of equipment, like this square “ring” pan sent to the Test Kitchen by NordicWare. They call it the Bundt Squared Pan. The gorgeous defined grooves were calling to me. I wanted […]

Rocky Road Ice-Cream Cake
Easy Rocky Road Ice-Cream Cake We like simple desserts in the summer and we are often thinking about what to make that will complement our grilled main dishes. The book Grill Nationby David Guas has us outside on the deck nearly every night (his Grilled Peach BBQ Sauce and Grilled Smoked Vidalia Onion Marmalade are […]

Seersucker Lemon-Blueberry Cake Roll
Seersucker Lemon-Blueberry Cake Roll We saw this image in Judith Fertig’s new book, Bake Happy, and we knew we had to bring it to you. The blueberry stripes are genius and fun. They are not hard, but there are some steps that do require time, so read the recipe through and make sure you understand […]

Gluten Free Lemon Coconut Yogurt Snack Cake
Gluten Free Lemon Coconut Yogurt Snack Cake This is a very easy to prepare cake – no need for a mixer – just a whisk and couple of bowls. We developed this to test baking with CO YO coconut yogurt and liked the results very much. You could certainly try it with other coconut […]

Yuzu Blueberry Pound Cake
Yuzu Blueberry Pound Cake If you are a citrus lover but have yet to experience yuzu, then you are in for a treat. It is sour and bracing, bright and vibrant. Like tangerine and lemon and some otherworldly citrus all rolled up in one fruit. Here Nicole Bermensolo uses yuzu juice along with blueberries […]

Orange-Kissed Peanut Butter Bundt
Orange-Kissed Peanut Butter Bundt This cake was a recent winner in a peanut butter contest organized by the Southern Peanut Growers annual “PB My Way Recipe Contest“. Other winning recipes were a Nutty Monkey Granola and Peanut Butter Saltine Brittle, but this cake caught our eye for its ease of preparation and harmony of orange and […]