Banana Snack Cake, as published in The Washington Post
A whole-grain kid-friendly treat that serves as a healthyish (is that a word?) snack.
Carrot Cake
11.29.12 at 12:18 pm (Cakes)
Tags: buttercream, carrots, cream cheese, frosting, layer cake, vegetable
Carrot Cake, from epicurious.com
What makes this carrot cake different from the bajillion other carrot cake recipes you have tried? It has PUREED CARROTS in the batter. Genius, right? The puree makes this cake extra moist and flavorful–and is a winning combo with the cream cheese buttercream.
Pumpkin Mousse
11.28.12 at 12:17 pm (Custard)
Tags: mousse, pumpkin, whipped cream
Martha Stewart’s Pumpkin Mousse
I threw this together when I got home around 11:30 night and had one of those, “Oh crap, I need to bake something for my work’s Thanksgiving potluck tomorrow!” moments. Not wanting to get into the process of preheating ovens, softening butter, letting things cool, etc., I decided to whip together this mousse in about 15 minutes.
I forgot to take a photo so I’m just posting this one I found online…it looked just like this 🙂
Gingerbread Cake with Caramel Filling and Orange Cream Cheese Buttercream
11.24.12 at 9:39 am (Cakes)
Tags: buttercream, caramel, cream cheese, filling, gingerbread, layer cake
Gingerbread Layer Cake with Caramel Filling and Orange Cream Cheese Buttercream, adapted from Martha Stewart
I created this cake for my best friend’s daughter’s first birthday party, along with an accompanying smash cake for the birthday girl.
The decorated cakes, along with an example of the inspiring decor:
A peek inside:
Gingerbread Cake
11.22.12 at 10:11 am (Cakes)
Tags: gingerbread
Gingerbread Cake
I can’t remember what recipe I used for this, but I wanted to share a photo of this cake made in my Nordic Ware Pumpkin Loaf Pan. I brought this to a Thanksgiving dinner, but we ended up eating it for breakfast the next morning!
Pumkpin Spice Cookies with Dulce de Leche
11.19.12 at 2:30 pm (Cookies)
Tags: dulce de leche, rolled cookies, sandwich cookies, spice
Lesson learned from this recipe: there is a reason they sell dulce de leche in a can. It was a total pain the ass and a complete mess to make…but it was pretty darn good in the end! I think if you make it in a pot way bigger than you need, you won’t have the same problems I did. The cookies were also great just on their own.
Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins
11.16.12 at 3:24 pm (Muffins)
Tags: pumpkin, spice
Martha Stewart’sPumpkin Doughnut Muffins
What is a doughnut muffin? You’ll just have to try these to find out…they are muffin-shaped, but with the airy texture and sugary coating of a doughnut.
Pink Lemonade Cake
11.15.12 at 12:04 pm (Cakes)
Tags: cream cheese, filling, frosting, layer cake, lemon, merin
Pink Lemonade Cake with Swiss Meringue Buttercream and Cream Cheese Filling, decorated with a Ruffle Design
How gorgeous is this cake?? And I have a secret…it was super simple to decorate. It took me a few minutes of playing with the pastry bag to figure out how to make the ruffles, but once I got the hang of it, the whole cake was covered in ruffles in only 10 minutes.
The cake layers were just ok, but the cake came together beautifully when the layers were covered in a pink lemonade simple syrup, sandwiched together with cream cheese filling, and coated with the meringue buttercream (with some lemon zest mixed in.)
Happy first birthday to my beautiful niece, Evie!
Chocolate-Zucchini Cakes
11.14.12 at 11:54 am (Muffins)
Tags: chocolate, vegetable, zucchini
Another sneaky way to get veggies into those kids! Mini chocolate muffins can look so innocent…
Sticky Pecan Upside-Down Cakes
11.03.12 at 4:49 pm (Cupcakes)
Tags: nuts, pecans, yellow cake
Stuff I Baked 