Category Archives: Desserts

Recipe Redux: Salted Caramel Cupcakes with Caramel Buttercream Frosting

Have you ever made something and then allowed 6 more years to pass before making it again only to discover one of the prepackaged ingredients has changed and you have to guesstimate? That’s what happened tonight while baking these cupcakes … Continue reading

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Chocolate Cupcakes

What’s not to love about a little cup of chocolate cake for a birthday? I made these for a good friend’s birthday a few months ago. Ingredients for the cupcake: 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar 6 tbsp Hershey’s … Continue reading

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Coconut Cream Pie Bars

I first tried my hand at this recipe several years ago and it was disappointingly lackluster. At the time, my mom jotted down tips and suggestions and it’s been hanging out in my 3-ring binder ever since. After consulting her … Continue reading

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German Chocolate Cake

Let’s take a moment and behold the gloriousness of German Chocolate Cake. This is by far one of my favorite cakes and surprisingly one that I had not previously made. Growing up, it was always one my mom would make … Continue reading

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Chocolate Chip Date Cake

This is another recipe pulled from the archives of my mother’s trusty recipe box. Like most recipes from mom, this one stems from my childhood. I’d never made it myself until this past summer when my parents were returning from … Continue reading

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Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread

’tis the season of an overflowing abundance of zucchini. I like it sautéed, grilled, baked, etc. and then there’s always the stealthily hidden zucchini in baked goods, like this bread. I’ve found my bread turns out much better, i.e., cooked … Continue reading

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Strawberry Cream Cake

98% of the time I buy strawberries, it’s for the sole purpose of having fresh fruit on hand. The other 2% of the time is because I want to bake with them. This was one of those times. Cool, creamy, … Continue reading

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Cookies & Cream Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

    This year while our birthday celebrations weren’t so quiet, my time in the kitchen was lacking. All of our birthdays are within 3 weeks of each other, and sometimes in the years passed, by the end of it all we are … Continue reading

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Pumpkin Crunch Cake

I don’t know about you, but in terms of the menu for Thanksgiving, we rarely deviate from year to year. There’s the usual cast of characters: oven roasted turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans of some sort, rolls, cranberry salad, … Continue reading

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Lemon Curd Mousse Cake

Admittedly, this is not a good picture for a variety of reasons: the partial lighting, the shadow, the disheveled surface of the lemon curd on top (I’ll explain later), the scratches on the plate etc., etc., but you know what? Like … Continue reading

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