Blackberry Buttermilk Cake
Okay, so I still have blackberries left over after bringing them all the way home to San Diego from Gig Harbor, WA and already making a batch of Blackberry Buttermilk Sherbet…they are getting really...
View ArticleApples & Honey Cake
The Jewish High Holidays are almost upon us. The holidays begin with Rosh Hashanah (from the Hebrew words rosh, meaning head or beginning, and hashanah, meaning year). Tradition tells us that we...
View ArticleSpiced Applesauce Cupcakes with Roasted Apples and Cinnamon Cream Cheese...
What happens when you can’t decide whether to make Smitten Kitchen’s Spiced Applesauce Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting OR Roasted Apple Spice Sheet Cake? OR whether to make a sheet cake or...
View ArticlePumpkin Roll
Okay, I’ve told you before that I love pumpkin desserts (see Pumpkin Snickerdoodles), but what I REALLY love are pumpkin desserts when a little sweetened cream cheese frosting (or filling) is involved....
View ArticleThe Best Freakin’ Carrot Cake
I cut this recipe out of some magazine many, many years ago. I cannot, for the life of me, remember what magazine it was, but I think it was Bette Midler’s carrot cake recipe. I have no evidence...
View ArticlePistachio Pound Cake
This recipe was in the April 2012 issue of Bon Appétit, in their RSVP section (where readers write in to request their favorite restaurant recipes). The reader who wrote in said, “The sublime...
View ArticleCinnamon Roll Cake
Debra, one of my very favorite coworkers, had a birthday (a BIG birthday) last month. Okay, really, Debra’s not just one of my favorite coworkers, but one of my very favorite people on the whole...
View ArticleOld-fashioned Chocolate Cake (aka Tony’s Birthday Cake)
Tony loves chocolate cake. So when I first saw this recipe in Bon Appétit in September 1995, I knew that I’d make him one for his birthday that December. And I did. And he loved it. And I’ve been...
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