Chocolate Chip Layer Cake with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

This year’s birthday cake was this beauty of a chocolate chip three-layered cake. Some of the best cakes with the most moist and soft crumbs come from a boxed cake mix as the base. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself! Ingredients Chocolate Chip Cake vegetable oil spray, for misting pans flour, for dusting pans […]

Red Velvet Bundt Cake with Almond Cream Cheese Frosting

One of my favorite dessert hacks is to “doctor-up” a cake mix. By the addition of ingredients, you can use a boxed cake mix as the base of a beautiful cake. Like this one, for example. This red velvet cake is one of my favorites and man, it is delicious and easy! Ingredients Cake 3/4 cup buttermilk room […]

Hot Chocolate Cupcakes

It is winter and hot chocolate season, but really is it ever a bad time for hot chocolate? The flavors of rich chocolate and marshmallow go hand-in-hand and are a favorite of many. This cupcake recipe is quite extraordinary and I am obsessed with them. So is Summer, my golden retriever. I ran to the […]

Gingerbread Cupcakes with Caramel Cream Cheese Buttercream

These cupcakes deserve a place on your holiday dessert table. Topped with a fresh sprig of rosemary and my Roll and Cut Gingerbread Cookies , you have to make these this holiday season! Ingredients Gingerbread cupcakes 1-1/2 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1/2 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon ground ginger 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon […]

Vanilla Chai Pumpkin Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Buttercream

Happy Pumpkin Season, my friends! These pumpkin cupcakes are deliciously moist and the chai spice gives them the perfect fall flavor! Ingredients Chai Spice + Topping 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon 2 teaspoons ground ginger 1 teaspoon cardamom 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon allspice 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1/8 teaspoon black pepper 1/3 cup granulated […]

Key Lime Pound Cake

Want to know one of the best tricks in making a scrumptious cake? A cake mix! You can doctor-up just about anything with a cake mix as the base. Whether it is a layered cake, a pound cake, or even cookies, try a cake mix! I promise it will change your life and it is […]

Black Forest Cake

Black forest cake, or schwarzwälder kirschtorte, is a typical German dessert that consists of several layers of chocolate sponge cake sandwiched with whipped cream and cherry filling. The cake is typically decorated with whipped cream, cherries, and chocolate shavings. In German tradition, sour cherries are used both between the layers and for decorating the top. […]

Skillet Pineapple Upside Down Cake

June 27th is National Pineapple Day. What better way to celebrate than making a pineapple upside down cake? This is a classic cake and I made it in the classic way, but in a skillet. The skillet perfectly caramelizes the brown sugar and pineapple. Oh my goodness, so darn good! ingredients 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour […]

Mexican Hot Chocolate Tres Leches Cake

Happy Cinco de Mayo! What do you think of when you think of Mexican desserts? I think of tres leches cake or sopapillas. They are absolutely two of my favorite desserts anyway! Maybe it’s because I’m a Texan? Either way, I love it! This Mexican hot chocolate version is a fun take on the classic Tres […]

Tres Leches Cake

Tres leches cake, which translates to “three milks” cake, is one of my favorite cakes to make. It is also one of my favorite cakes to eat. While meal prepping before Aric returned from his deployment, I just K N E W I had to make this naughty thing. If you were to ask him, […]