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chocolate snack cake
I posted a picture of a chocolate snack cake on Instagram this week and had many requests for a recipe, so here it is. I’ve featured a snack cake on my site before, but found that cake recipe to...
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chocolate chip snack cake
I have another snack cake for you, this time one with a yellow cake base and mini chocolate chips. I must admit I’ve been enjoying these snack cakes more than layer cakes – the frosting to cake ratio...
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Chocolate Cake with Espresso Buttercream
I’m not ashamed to admit I drink way too much coffee. I recently got an espresso machine, which has changed my life for the better (it was sent to me by Breville, but this isn’t a sales pitch: I’m in...
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Walnut Cake with Chocolate Buttercream and Candied Walnuts
This post is sponsored by California Walnuts. As always, all opinions are my own. I’m excited to share this cake with you, for two reasons. First, it has been a whole month since I made a layer cake,...
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Walnut White Chocolate Bundt Cake
This post is sponsored by California Walnuts. As always, all opinions are my own. I have another cake for you; this one is in Bundt form, studded with white chocolate and topped with candied walnuts...
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Lovely Lemon Yogurt Cake
This week I was sent an advance copy of Odette William’s new book, Simple Cake. It is a beautiful book filled with all kinds of (wait for it) simple cakes, and after flipping through the pages I was...
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Walnut Snack Cake with Raspberry Buttercream
This post is sponsored by California Walnuts. As always, all opinions are my own. I’ve teamed up with California Walnuts to bring you some recipes over the following year (such as this chocolate...
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Blueberry Orange Bundt Cake
I have a gigantic stack of cookbooks that I have been meaning to bake and cook from, but sadly they have sitting on my dining room table (along with heaps of legos and papers to be sorted and summer...
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Espresso Bundt Cake
There has been a slight chill in the air the past week – just the faintest whisperings of September – so naturally I found myself in the kitchen baking bundt cakes. I used to make an Espresso Bundt...
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Chocolate Sheet Cake with Candied Walnuts
This post is sponsored by California Walnuts. As always, all opinions are my own. I’m a fan of cake, of course, and while I’ve made plenty of layer cakes and snack cakes on this site, I realized that...
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chocolate mint cake (otherwise known as candy cane cake)
This is an older post, originally posted in 2011, that I’m highlighting this December. My daughter and I were looking through old blog posts, trying to decide on a birthday dessert for her upcoming...
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chocolate cake with basil buttercream
I had my first taste of basil and chocolate almost two decades ago, out with friends at Lucia’s restaurant in Minneapolis. Our server recommended the chocolate cake paired with the basil ice cream, and...
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Powdered Donut Cake
I am highly enjoying Yossy Arefi’s new cookbook, Snacking Cakes, a lovely collection of simple, every day cakes. I’ve tried several recipes from the book now: Vanilla Buttermilk Cake, Minty Chocolate...
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Meyer Lemon Cake with Crème Fraîche Glaze
I have been a fan of snack cakes for years (see Chocolate Chip Snack Cake and Powdered Sugar Snack Cake), and am excited to now have a Meyer Lemon version to add to the mix. This recipe comes from Bake...
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