Have you given up on making cakes from scratch? It can sometimes seem that making a cake from scratch is impossible. Often, homemade cakes are heavy, dry, and the texture is coarse. Repeated failures can have you reaching for a box of cake mix and deciding to leave cake baking to the professionals. Don’t give …
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, or so say your mother and Grandmother. However, Mom and Grandma likely never had the chaotic life that most people lead in the 21st century. With two parents working outside the home, kids in school and child care, sports, ballet practice, and civic volunteering, who has …
Who would have thought that buttermilk would be the secret weapon when it came to making the ultimate chocolate cake? When combined with vegetable oil and sometimes even hot water, buttermilk ensures the cake will be soft and moist and virtually melt in the mouth. Then, of course, there’s the flavor. Buttermilk has a little …
If you have to follow a gluten free diet, it can be discouraging to think about all of the pies, cakes, and other sweet goodies that you can no longer enjoy. So many tasty treats are made with flour that you can really feel sad about having to omit this common ingredient from your diet. …
As a grandmother, there are few things I love more in this world than my grandchildren and baking delicious food. There is one recipe, in particular, I have been indulging in most recently. I have started baking Lemon Blueberry Coffee Cake recipes in a variety of ways. Loaf cakes, muffins, and cupcakes, all turn out …
Recipes like this Chocolate Buttermilk Cake have been popular for well over 100 years. However, did you know that up until the twentieth century, chocolate was an expensive treat that only the wealthy could afford? At that time, cocoa prices lowered enough, so the average person could enjoy it from time to time. The chocolate cake was …
Chocolate eclair cakes are not something I have ever eaten before, much less baked. But there’s this guy and I really like him, and since my name is Claire I want to go there and be like, “Here’s a chocolate eclair cake.” And then give it to him and run away like a childish school …
I am a church minister who is also a cake lover who grew up in the fat-free craze of the Nineties. I, therefore, have enjoyed a strawberry angel food cake at many church picnics. As such, I present to you some of the most interesting ways to eat an angel food cake you’ve ever seen. …
When you take a bite of carrot cake, do you really take in the way sweet cinnamon and spicy cloves play on each other to create a flavorful blend? Do you consider the way all these spices accentuate the sweetness of the cream cheese frosting on top? This spice blend is flavorful and appealing even …
Maybe it’s because I am from Georgia, but fried foods are one of my favorite things to eat. I even like making foods like funnel cakes even though they are a fire hazard. Actually, that’s most likely why these foods are my favorite—the pyromaniac in me is trying to get out! When I lived in …
Created by accident in the 1930s, gooey butter cake is a St. Louis, Missouri staple. It features a layer of cake batter topped with a layer of creamy, gooey sweetness. Legend says that a new baker hired at John Hoffman’s bakery got some ingredients of a dessert recipe mixed up. Since this happened during the …
Poke cakes have been around since the 1970s, and they are a favorite because they are moist and tasty, and there are endless arrays of flavor combinations that you can try. These scrumptious sweets are also very easy to make. They often use a boxed cake mix, so you can quickly create a dessert the whole family …
The chocolate cake is soft and smooth, the filling is rich and adds a tasty moistness to the cake, and the creamy topping adds the perfect touch to the sweetness of the cake. Poke cakes sound like something hokey that would be served at a church potluck, but there is nothing unsophisticated about this cake. Although …
Our recipe for Summer Blueberry Layer Cake takes advantage of the tangy sweetness of these delicious berries. Berries are included in both the cake batter and in the icing, and you can get the wonderful flavor of blueberries without the addition of artificial flavors. This cake has a beautifully colored icing, with the blueberries contributing …
Our recipe for Orange Creamsicle Angel Food Cake is an angel food cake version of the popular summer time treat. These cakes are leavened by whipped egg whites, which give them a soft, fluffy texture. The lightness of the egg whites makes them a good kind of cake to serve in the summer time, since …
In the 1880s, at the Morrison’s Old Corner Drug Store, a pharmacist spent hours mixing medicines for people in the small city of Waco, Texas. Charles Alderton also, as a part of his work, served patrons at the drug store’s soda fountain. He created soft drinks and ice cream sodas by mixing soda syrups and …
Born of practicality, a “skillet cake” was cooked in a cast-iron skillet on a stove. Skillet cakes were necessary because pioneers and the very poor often did not have access to ovens in their primitive dwellings. Only the stovetop was available for baking and cooking. Generally, a skillet cake had a layer of fruit mixed …
Most people enjoy chocolate, but then there are those who just can’t get enough of the dark, rich, and flavorful treat. If you know someone like this, you may want to create this recipe just for them. This recipe is chocolatey enough for the most severe chocolate addict. But, if you want to add a …
Cake is a wonderful treat sometimes used to celebrate special occasions in a family. Often consisting of a sweet, spongy bread covered in a rich sugary frosting, cake is popular for birthday and anniversary celebrations. However, this recipe for cake will take your definition of that dessert to a new level. While Chocolate Eclair Cake …
Many people believe that angel food cake is complicated to make. They may wrongly think this because rather than using the chemical magic of baking soda and baking powder to rise, an angel food cake uses whipped egg whites to incorporate lots of air into the batter. Using beaten egg whites isn’t hard, but it …