Berries are beautiful — and make this quick, buttery cake the best. This is a redo of one of my earlier recipes, scaled smaller optimized for berries. I think it’s perfect for an afternoon treat. Fresh Berry Butter Cake (makes one 8″ cake) 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 5 oz (3/4 cup) granulated sugar…
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Rose Petal Barbie Cake
A beautiful, surprisingly simple celebration cake for the Barbie lover! I created this cake several years ago for my daughter’s birthday, per her request. Made from scratch, with simple vanilla frosting, covered in luscious hot pink rose petals and a few pale pink sugar pearls – a tasty, lovely cake. Below is the larger batch…
Whiskey Cake
Ahh . . . Whiskey Cake. How many times have I made you? I’ve lost count. This cake is a sultry, moist, make-ahead dream. Though most of my baking is from scratch, this is one super quick recipe for which I use a cake mix. I developed this recipe many years ago at the…
Barbie Cake
The Barbie Cake is a sugary creation of epic proportion. My daughter has been a Barbie fan for years. And so for years at her request I’ve made her a Barbie cake for her birthday. She just turned 17 and requested a Barbie cake. She usually had a particular actual Barbie she wanted in the…
Chocolate Cake
This is perhaps my favorite all time baking recipe. I was in search of the perfect, simple, fool-proof chocolate cake. For two years I tried multiple chocolate cake recipes, tweaking this and that. After much experimentation, this is the one. It’s fast to make and tastes just like a good chocolate layer cake…