Some of my favorite Holiday Recipes come from my childhood. Those special meals, and those very very very special desserts that only showed up on the table once a year. Dobos Torte is one of those. My Mom has the BEST Dobos Cake Recipe! She would layer plain cake with thick Chocolate frosting in a loaf […]
Cake Recipes
Chocolate Bundt Cake Scratch
The Potluck Season is upon us. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, Kwanza, or the Lunar New Year… You are sharing food. This delicious Chocolate Bundt Cake Scratch recipe is a good one to keep handy. You can dress it up with icing, or keep it simple with powdered sugar….Serve it warm with ice cream, and it’s […]
Recipe for New York Crumb Cake
I love New York Crumb Cake, but I grew up in the suburbs of Southern California, which is about as far away from New York, and its fine cuisine, as you can get (ok… all of you pointing out the obvious on a globe.. YES, I know that Turkey, China, India and South America are […]
Coconut Pound Cake Recipe Scratch
I have a perfectly good reason for taking the time to bake this Coconut Pound Cake Recipe (scratch!) Vacation for me this year was a week House-Sitting for my Parents, while they took my kids on a trip. Sound Odd? Think about it…. Sleeping as late as I wanted, eating what I wanted, eating when I wanted, […]
Best Apple Streusel Cake Recipe
Saturday afternoon, and the craziness swirls around me. Kids and their friends, sports, errands, shopping, cleaning, it goes on all day. Right around 4 o’clock I start looking for a break. A quiet moment, or if not quiet, at least a change of pace. A piece of the Best Apple Streusel Cake Recipe, in German, Apfel Streusel Kuchen is […]
Easy Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake
This Easy Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake is a lifesaver! Being a busy mom with active kids can be all dizzying! Soccer, Baseball, Track, Football, Youth Groups, Scouts! All of these activities mean busy weekends of games, tournaments, camp outs, jamborees, gatherings and bake sales. I get hit up A LOT for donations. (Usually at 9pm […]
Ooey Gooey Chocolate Cake Recipe
Some days are no fun, and other days are just bad. The kind of bad that can only be fixed with this Ooey Gooey Chocolate Cake Recipe. You know what I mean. You’ve done everything right, and yet everything goes wrong. It’s best to just sit down in a quiet place and eat a piece […]
Best Old Fashioned Gingerbread Cake Recipe
What makes this the Best Old Fashioned Gingerbread Cake Recipe? It’s not fancy or showy… so, why is it so tied with the holidays? I think my favorite part of the Holiday Season is the way it smells. Presents are nice, the decorations are pretty….shopping is massively stressful… but the smells, so inviting and friendly. […]
Homemade Rum Cake Recipe (Scratch)
I love Making Homemade Rum Cake (Scratch). It’s cold and foggy again. But then, this is the Bay Area, and cold and foggy is the norm. Winter is the worst though. It’s dark and cold and foggy… and sometimes it rains. I realize that you people in Minnesota laugh at our version of winter… but still.. […]
Easy Honey Cake Recipe
The weather turned here, and it’s starting to get cooler (I think the summer here in the Bay Area lasts about 97 minutes…). Started thinking about Fall flavors, about food that warms and is comforting. I baked this easy Honey Cake recipe today. It made the house smell like heaven. And even though it […]
Paris Brest Cake Recipe (with Step by Step Photos)
The Paris Brest Cake is one of those “flashy” desserts that don’t require as much effort as you think. It’s a simple choux pastry filled with chocolate and whipped cream. Like a giant cream puff….Swoon… And I deserved it! You see, my birthday came and went in a flurry of everyday family chaos… however….. when […]