Cakes

Pound Cake

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I love a good pound cake. The name comes from the fact that the original recipe contained 1 pound of flour, 1 pound of eggs, 1 pound of butter and 1 pound of milk. A simple recipe that makes a gigantic cake. This recipe slims down the cake and adds a few little touches to [...]

Individual Peach Upside-Down Cakes

Individual Peach Upside-Down Cakes

Peaches are in season right now and they are sweeter than ever.  I have a pantry full of them.  I was looking for a new recipe that I have never even contemplated before.  Dana and I were brainstorming and one thing I have never made was an upside down cake.  So I looked around and [...]

Single Serve Cheesecakes

Single Serve Cheesecakes

The other day, Dana and I were watching TV and it suddenly hit me.  I have never made cheesecake on the website.  I had to remedy the situation immediately.  So I went to the store and picked up the ingredients.  I then noticed that I did not have a spring form pan and was unable [...]

Dana’s Birthday Cake

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So today is Dana’s Birthday!  Happy Birthday Dana! I wanted to make her a super chocolaty cake, so I made a moist chocolate cake, layered with a fluffy chocolate filling and a chocolate butter cream frosting.  It is rather intense with the amount of chocolate.  As you can see from the pics, I need a [...]

German Chocolate Cake

German Chocolate Cake

Last week I wanted something sweet.  After trying to recreate the Pot Belly dream bars, I had a ton of coconut lying around.  The one thing that I always think of when I have coconut is German Chocolate Cake.  It is that chocolate cake that is iced with a creamy coconut frosting.  When I was [...]

Red Velvet Cake

The other day I wanted something sweet and I could not figure out exactly what to make.  Then I was doing a little searching on the internet and came across a red velvet cake.  My mom used to make red velvet cake, but I totally forgot about it.  Reminiscing I decided to make one. As [...]