Colorful recipes with seasonal food
I’ve been on a bit of a cupcake making bender lately. Remember when cupcakes were at the top of the social media dessert food chain? Cupcakes…everywhere… Let’s bring those days back. I mean… cupcakes are everything. Cake you can hold in your hand… the perfect dessert. And options? holy heck the choices cupcakes offer!…
Did you know that rhubarb and raspberry are an amazing combo? I thought they’d be too tart together but when you mix them in a cake and throw on some streusel they are juuuuuuuust right. I didn’t add nuts to the topping but, believe me, they’re a great addition as well. I developed this recipe…
I decided to give this cake a try because I had 12 egg yolks left over after making an angel food cake for our nephew’s birthday. (Our Angel Food Cake recipe can be found HERE). From now on, whenever I make an angel food cake I will be making this cake as well. Never again will…
Jelly roll cakes always seem so much more complicated than they actually are. Granted they are a little trickier than a “regular” cake to make but they look so pretty and taste so amazing that the extra effort is totally worth it. Sue and I had a little Chopped style competition going on while we…
Halloween is getting closer! I know it’s only the end of September but really…. I mean…. it’s basically Halloween. Sue and I start planning our Halloween shenanigans in the summer as we are both a little holiday crazy so by the time we get to September we’re anxious to get things started. #HalloweenRules Anyway, I…
The mooncakes I grew up eating were the golden, baked kind–usually filled with red bean or lotus seed paste and sometimes even a salted egg yolk inside. It’s so ubiquitous that iOS has an emoji for them (while there still isn’t an emoji for waffles??). They were good, but oh so heavy and dense; it…
Read More “The Cooking of Joy: Snowskin Cake Truffle Mooncakes” »
Our little great-niece turned two last month so we wanted to make her a special cake. We had to be able to travel with it so we couldn’t really do a layered cake for fear it would fall over on the trip. This number two cake is fairly simple to shape and travels very well….
I’ve been all about the donuts lately, all of them yeasted. I decided to be all wild and crazy and try a cake donut instead. I’m not sure which I love more… yeast or cake donuts. Cake donuts get bonus points for not having to take time to rise the dough but otherwise it’s a…
I’ve seen photos of this cake on Pinterest and Instagram for years and was always curious about it. It’s a very eye catching cake and the recipe is so different. It looks like a cake but is a yeast dough, but it’s not “bread”. I had added it to my “must try” list a long…
Angel food cake from a box mix just cannot compare to from scratch. It’s an entirely different experience. Angel food cake from scratch is a bit of a pain in the butt to make, granted, but is so worth the effort. And what is the best way to top an angel food cake? Well, that…
Can we just make cupcakes a thing again? Please? I looooove cupcakes. Making them, decorating them, eating them…. love them. I’m not sure when they started to lose popularity but it’s just wrong. I mean… it’s cake you can hold in your hand, what’s not perfect about that? Let’s bring the cupcake back to its…
This year for Christmas Sue came up with the idea of doing a traditional Ukrainian Christmas (Click HERE to see our dinner post). I’m all about pierogies and cabbage rolls so I said, heck ya! Let’s do it. I searched Pinterest for research on Ukrainian desserts and came across this torte from Suburban Grandma (Click…
Sometimes the simplest recipes are the best. “Old fashioned” comes to mind. No fancy schmancy ingredients, no expensive equipment needed, just some fresh fruit and a few minutes to whip up. This cherry cake is definitely one of those recipes. A lovely vanilla cake with fresh cherries that is moist and crumbly and perfect for…
Pineapple and coconut may seem a bit out of place in November but I say there is no better time to have them! It’s cold, it’s rainy, it’s a stay under the covers watching movies kind of month BUT if we add a little pineapple and coconut it’s like summer is here again. Okay. Maybe…
I’ve been wanting to try making a full-size crepe cake ever since I made those Nutelle mini crepe cakes 3 years ago, and seeing a recent picture of my friend Serene’s matcha crepe cake re-inspired me. But when I couldn’t decide which flavor crepe cake to make, my other friend Christine reminded me of a…
I’ve been wanting to make an American flag cake for the 4th of July and had pinned several possible versions including this one from Food52 and this ice cream cake version from the Food Network. But the problem with those round layer cakes though is that I only had one round cake pan and no…
I first had this cake at my friend Evie’s Epiphany Party last year, and it was truly an epiphany. I never knew homemade cake could taste so good–so buttery and moist and bursting with blueberries! I e-mailed Evie immediately after the party to ask for her friend’s recipe, and it turns out it’s from a…
Bouncy. Chewy Springy. Squishy. These are probably not words you usually associate with a chocolate cake, and yet this Chocolate Mochi Snack Cake is all of those things. Just looking at this cake you’d think it would be dense and crazy sweet like a brownie, but it’s actually rather light and just sweet enough that…
Read More “The Cooking of Joy: Chocolate Mochi Snack Cake” »
Here is yet another recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi (and probably not the last)! I first discovered financiers at Eric Kayser’s bakery near my hotel in Paris. They looked like perfect little miniature cakes that were basically unadorned–a distinct change from all the super-frosted and decorated cupcakes that were all the rage in…
Read More “Matcha Financiers with White Chocolate Centers” »
I came across Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi cookbook at my local library the other day and borrowed it without even opening it. I’ve made some of her recipes in the past and totally trust her authority in all things baking, just like I trust Jeni’s in all things frozen. I was a little disappointed…
