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Espresso Brownie Cake

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Espresso Brownie Cake

Chocolate and coffee are always a good combination and this Espresso Brownie Cake is the perfect dessert if you want to enjoy both together. It is made with a very generous dose of dark chocolate and plenty of espresso, along with a splash of coffee liqueur. The cake evenly delivers intense coffee …

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Chocolate Rum Sheet Cake

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Chocolate Rum Sheet Cake
Baking with spirits is a lot of fun. Like vanilla extract, much of the alcohol burns off during baking, leaving you with a variety of delicious flavors in your baked goods. This is especially true of darker, aged spirits like whiskey and rum, where you get lots of potent flavors that can include …

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Vanilla Whipping Cream Pound Cake

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Whipping Cream Pound Cake
Pound cakes are known for their dense, tight crumb and buttery flavor. While the original recipe called for a pound each of flour, sugar and eggs, there is more than one way to produce a cake with the distinctive texture. This Vanilla Whipping Cream Pound Cake is a fantastic cake for just about …

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Pineapple Upside Down Banana Cake

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Pineapple Upside Down Banana Cake

A traditional pineapple upside down cake has a layer of caramelized pineapple sitting atop a sponge cake or a vanilla cake. These relatively “plain” cakes are a great base to show off other flavors, including pineapple, but you don’t have to limit your upside down desserts to only one type of cake, …

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5-Minute Nutella Mug Cake

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5-Minute Nutella Mug Cake

I have a long string of posts in my draft folder. Many of them are recipe ideas – and, in some cases fully developed recipes – that I never got around to finishing up and sharing. Some are holiday-specific recipes that get saved for the next year, while some of them are …

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Lemon Lime Poppy Seed Bundt Cake

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Lemon Lime Poppyseed Cake
Poppy seeds are a fun ingredient to bake with because they add a surprising amount of texture to cakes, muffins and cookies, even though they don’t add a tremendous amount of flavor in most recipes. Just like adding nuts to a cookie recipe, it is nice to add different textures as well as …

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