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Posts tagged “cake”

Recipe: Pumpkin Crumb Cakes

In our last open discussion thread, reader Erin asked if there was a way to adapt a recipe that used cake mix. Coincidentally, we had already adapted the example she cited - a cozy pumpkin crumb cake....

Recipe Review: Dark Gingerbread Pear Cake

We recently linked to a gingerbread-pear cake in our daily Delicious Links, and lo and behold, we found ourselves with that very same cake in the oven a few nights later. We wanted, you see, to give y...

Recipe: Sticky Spiked Double-Apple Cake with a Brown Sugar-Brandy Sauce

It's harvest time, which means apples, which means that we've already made our harvest apple traditional recipe once - and we'll make it again. What's this recipe? An outrageously amazing apple cake, ...

Tomatoes with Rice, Pears on Gingerbread
Delicious links for 10.10.08

On the Delicious Links menu today: warm, cozy, easy comfort food. Tomatoes with rice, gingerbread cake baked with pears, sausage with lentils. Oh, and a really cool wine decanter. ...

DIY Wedding Cake and Ice Cream: The Recipes

Last week I showed you a few photos of my homemade wedding cakes, but neglected to give you the recipes! Here they are - two simple cakes suitable for any occasion, along with their trimmings and ice ...

Home Cooking: The Homemade Wedding Cake

Wedding cake - the sweetest part of a wedding meal. I knew from the very start that I wanted to bake my own wedding cake. It felt necessary somehow, and not so difficult - especially since we were dis...

DIY Wedding Cake: One Down, A Few More To Go

I have just one of my many wedding cake layers done, but it was a doozy. It's the biggest layer of what will be a four-tier fudgy-nearly-flourless cake. The layer is huge - 14 inches! I was very, very...

How To Frost a Layer Cake

We've offered good tips before on how to frost a cake without too much mess, but we wanted to show you start to finish how we frost a cake. We're not experts at this, but we do love layer cake! Here's...

Recipe Review: Orange Yogurt Cake

So if it has yogurt in it, can we pretend it's healthy? Pretty please? This recipe for Orange Yogurt Cake comes from one of our favorite blogs, Farmgirl Fare. We made it for a barbecue dinner party l...

Quick n' Easy: Ways to Soften Butter

This weekend, we were halfway through assembling ingredients for a yellow cake when we realized that we'd forgotten to set out butter to soften. Again. We keep sticks of butter in the freezer, so set...

On Birthday Cake for Breakfast

We had several birthdays in the family last weekend, and we're left with quite a lot of birthday cake. Emma's post earlier today on breakfast reminded us of a secret pleasure: birthday cake for breakf...

Shaker Boxes for Picnics
Seen, noted, and found delicious. 06.17.08

Delicious links - the pretty edition. Here are a few things we're admiring today....

Happy Easter from The Kitchn

The sun is shining and it seems like a miracle. We are sitting down to a proper Easter supper of roast lamb, potatoes, sweet eggy bread, potato dough rolls, and grated horseradish. Whether you are cel...

Showstopper: Hazelnut Brown Butter Cake with Chocolate Ganache

We had planned to write a post about the rising cost of food, or something equally serious. But any pretensions of gravity flew out the window as soon as we saw this cake, attached to the magic words:...

Pantry Basics: How to Make Cake Flour Substitute

Ever feel inspired to whip up a home-made cake, only to find yourself out of cake flour? Or maybe it seems a bit excessive to buy an entire bag of cake flour when you're only planning on making one ca...

Why From-Scratch Cakes are Healthier than Box Mix Cakes

When it comes to cakes we are big proponents of from-scratch, as opposed to box mixes. This is not an elitist position; rather, we feel that the packaged food industry has hoodwinked us all into think...

New Favorite: Lemon Olive Oil Cake

We sense a theme. Lemons are all we want right now. Lemons and olive oil combine in a sunny, new favorite cake - it's really the best thing we've had in a long time. ...

Baking Lab: Why Did Our Cake Fall Flat?

Last week we shared a recipe for Coffee Cake with Coffee Glaze - a moist, fluffy cake flavored with coffee and just a hint of cocoa. The recipe that we posted was not, however, our first attempt. ...

Look! Reader Anusha's Orange and Chocolate Cake

Reader Anusha says that she was inspired by the post on chocolate pies for Pie Day, so she rolled up her sleeves last weekend and baked this Chocolate, Almond and Orange Cake. ...

Bittersweet Baking Finalist #5: Double Shot Chocolate Cake

The fifth finalist in our Bittersweet Baking contest is Erin with her Double Shot Chocolate Cake. We were just blown away the picture-perfect texture on this flourless chocolate cake, and by th...

Goes Well With Coffee: Five Sweet Things

As we thought about what we like best with coffee, we realized that we've blogged most of them. Here are five recipes from our archives that go really, really well with coffee. • Spicy Sticky...

Recipe: Coffee Cake with Coffee Glaze

Not to be confused with breakfast coffee cake, our Coffee Cake with Coffee Glaze is a fluffy, moist, and coffee-scented dessert with a sweet, creamy glaze icing. ...

Best Five: Basic Chocolate Recipes

Every cook has that small repertoire of recipes they turn to over and over again. We have a small, well-proven handful of chocolate recipes that never let us down. From no-fail chocolate cake to hom...

Chocolate! Cake, Brownie, and Cookie Recipes

Are you Baking Bittersweet this week? To inspire you, here are some of our best baked chocolate recipes. We're partial to those prune and chocolate chunk cookies ourselves, with a big glass of milk....

The Reluctant Baker: Hate Baking? Have Hope!

I fumble frosting. I skip sifting and I don't have the patience to whip and whisk and work on a cake all morning, only to see it crack it half when I attempt to flip it out of the pan. That phrase "E...