Cinnamon Swirled Sweet Potato Bundt Cake
One more post for tonight and no, it’s not the right season for bundt cake, but it sounded so yummy I had to make it 🙂 I pestered a stranger, Angie Holmes, for the recipe after I had seen her…
Category: Cakes & Cupcakes
Orange Marmalade Cake
I looooooove marmalade! Though I hated it as a kid. Amazing what growing up can do, right? 🙂 My mom put a very expensive jar of marmalade in my stocking at Christmas one year—aren’t Moms great?—and I used some to make…
Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Curd, Buttercream Frosting, and Toasted Coconut
I should have toasted the coconut above, but if you are making all white cupcakes for a wedding or something, this works 🙂 Decorations were made by piping melted white chocolate onto parchment paper, letting them set to dry, then,…
Lemon Bundt Cake
It’s the start of citrus season here in sunny California—let’s all celebrate with a homey, yummy Lemon Bundt Cake! I picked three lemons off my neighbor’s tree—which I have spent 20 years training to grow over my fence—to make this…
Hot Chocolate Lava Cakes
Look what my daughter Abby made for us for Valentine’s Day! She printed off three recipes, tried two of them and here’s the best. The cakes are easier to make than they look, and they can be mixed up a…
Banana Chocolate Chip Coffeecake
This is my kids’ favorite, so perhaps I should call it a snack cake rather than a coffeecake. Anyway, I made one this morning, and it was gone in flash. Whatever you call it, it’s baked in a 9x9x2″ pan,…
Lemon-Poppy Seed Bread
Bread isn’t quite the right word for this. Yes, the batter is baked in loaf pans, but it has a finer texture than a quick bread, it’s really more of a cake, a cake that doesn’t need frosting 🙂 I…