Caramel Cake with Cinnamon Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Frosting
So, the recipe for Bourbon Caramel Apple Pie Cookies contains a recipe that yields well over a cup of caramel sauce. That is a lot more caramel than you really need. Never fear, I have an elegant solution for what to do with the extra caramel that does not require two pints of ice cream and a marathon of my favorite Marilyn Monroe movies. (How to Marry a Millionaire is my number 1 favorite!) Use the extra caramel in a cake! ...
Chocolate Spice Cake With Brown Butter Frosting
Welcome Fall!! It is not exactly cool here, but we have had three days where the temps have stayed cool enough for the air to be crisp, and that puts me in a Fall baking mood! I decided to break out all the ingredients for a spice cake when a bar of dark chocolate caught my eye. What, I wondered, would happen if I tried to make a chocolate spice cake? This is the result! The cake is delicate and moist, and it stays moist for a...
Peach Upside-down Cake
As Summer winds down, and we start to see the Summer fruit dwindle in the stores, I find that I am on one last Summer dessert push. I know, in a few shorts weeks, that the fresh Summer peaches will be replaces with the depressing peaches we get most of the year. I am going to miss my fresh peaches, and I thought that I have one last ‘hurrah’ in the form of a peach cake. I have be sort of obsessed with upside-down...
Chocolate Angel Food Cake
This recipe is something of a triumph for me. I have long suffered with an inability to make a light and tender angel food cake. The cakes always, without fail, fall in the oven or just after removal from the oven. It drove me mad! Now I am confident those days are behind me with this recipe! It is adapted from a recipe on Baking Bites which sounds lovely as is, but I tinkered, and added chocolate … which can’t be...
Lemon Cherry Cake
When I buy fruit I find that I almost always buy more than I need. In fact, I would go so far as to say I do that with most food. That isn’t to say I am forever throwing away perfectly good food, but I plan for a dessert or salad and then overbuy with abandon and have to come up with a second, and even third recipe to use it all up. That is what happened when I bought cherries for my Cherry Cheese Tart. I bought loads of...
Chocolate Loaf Cake with White Chocolate Glaze
I don’t know about you but I love humble desserts, and of those desserts there is just something special about loaf cakes. They are not the prettiest desserts out there. Often they are served unadorned or simply glazed. Sitting next to a flaky croissant, a glistening napoleon, or a fluffy mousse they wouldn’t win the beauty prize, but looks can be deceiving. Let’s be honest, because it is just you and I. I find...
