I whipped up a quick strawberry-raspberry jam + a graham cracker crunch to sandwich in between the layers, and this Lemon Cream Cheese Buttercream to tie everything together. & it was so good! A novel concept really - juice a whole lemon and add it to the cream cheese buttercream frosting I always use, and there it is.
Read MoreSo I researched, took notes, found fun elements to piece together, and finally decided that this Peanut Butter Twix Cake is my kind of chocolate cake. It’s chocolate-y + sweet + rich cake that’s also balanced with the perfect amount of salty components. It has texture + flavor, and gets a 10/10 cake at our house.
Read MoreI decided on a Raspberry + Pistachio Cake, and everything from the flavor to the texture to vibe was a hit here at our house. A delicate & sweet raspberry lemon cake with a fresh raspberry compote, a pistachio cream cheese filling, and some pistachio crunch. Finished with my ultimate favorite - a cream cheese frosting.
Read MoreThis Blackberry Crisp Cake hit all the right notes at our house. Fresh blackberries, a sweet cream cheese buttercream, and a spiced + crunchy oat crisp in between the layers. It’s all just perfect. The oat crisp adds this cinnamon note, and adds that little bit of spice that makes it so reminiscent of a classic crisp of crumble.
Read MoreThe cake that I’ll remember as the first I (somewhat successfully) decorated with the cutest old school piping. And did it in my favorite hue of vibrant pink. Fun ribbons around the sides, a shell boarder around the top, and cute little double stacked rosettes in the center. All perfectly matched to the Sweet Strawberry Crisp Cake inside.
Read MoreI made a belated cake I’d had my eye on - this Apple Cider + Salted Caramel Cake with an Apple Pie Filling. Damn was it good + damn did I feel like I earned this treat. Did a little Christmas decorating practice and had a lovely time with this one.
Read MoreIt’s been my Summer 2023 goal to find a “go-to” lemon + berry cake, and we ended the season with the best variation yet - this Lemon Cake with Strawberry Jam + Lemon Crumble. A cake batter loaded with lemon zest + fresh squeezed lemon juice, layered with a fresh strawberry jam (that’s so good we can’t stop putting it on toast + crackers + everything in between), cream cheese frosting, and a lemon shortbread crumble.
Read MoreThe cake: Banana Peanut Butter Cake. A nutty, tangy, salty-sweet kinda cake, and a new favorite at our house. It gives banana bread vibes with this banana cake base - made with a hearty amount of freshly mashed bananas - and a cream cheese frosting to encase the whole thing. The good stuff was all in the layers, which I packed with a peanut butter cream cheese filling, salted caramel, + chopped peanuts.
Read MoreI do get the post vacation blues. It’s so bad - it’s that transition back into norma life that’s truly not it for me. But this Raspberry + Oreo Layer Cake helped ease the pain. All pink + decorated to a Valentine’s theme. And very, very delicious. It’s chocolate-y+ fresh + so many layers of raspberry flavor. My favorite - a fresh raspberry curd + a cream cheese oreo filling that come together for a dreamy middle layer that gives this chocolate covered strawberry vibe.
Read MoreThis Fruity Pebbles Cake was a long time coming! Sweet + crunchy + bursting with color. A cake infused with a sweet cereal milk + crispy fruity pebble layers, and held together by my most favorite thing - cream cheese frosting. It was a fun cake to make + eat, and a in all a 10 out of 10 bake.
Read MoreThis is a cake that really has it all. Super chocolate-y layers that sit on top of a graham cracker + pretzel crust (my personal favorite part) with the most delish peanut butter-cheesecake layer nestled in between. And let me not forget the chopped up peanuts + peanut butter cups sandwiched right with the filling. They’re in the mix for texture (duh), but they add so much. Every forkful of cake + crust + filling + frosting (all the elements) is so genuinely good
Read MoreI grew up LOVING cherry pie, and that filling was what my little taste buds were after. That sweet, gooey, and thick filling with tender, juicy cherries - it was my dessert of choice back in the day. Pretty sure I’ve eaten lots of Marie Calendar’s cherry pie slices at family functions, and that’s a fact my parents can speak to.
Read MoreSo blueberry cake round 2 came in the form of this Cream Cheese Cake - comprised of airy + light cream cheese cake layers, held together by a sweet + tangy cream cheese frosting, and layered with crunchy hazelnuts and a homemade blueberry compote. The real take-away is that you can totally have fun with the fruity filling, and this cream cheese cake + cream cheese frosting pairing is perfect enough to hang with a lot of different cake fillings.
Read MoreOur cake choice - a fruity + fun Blueberry Cobbler Cake. This cake is all thing fruity, sweet + crunchy, with subtle salty + tangy notes for balance. The cake itself is packed with fresh blueberries, and a homemade blueberry compote is layered in between each light + fluffy cake layer. It’s pure blueberry flavor that’s combined with crumbly, cobbler pieces and a light + tangy cream cheese frosting (which is actually the best cream cheese frosting ever!).
Read MoreSo like all good things, we celebrated with cake. And a really, really good one at that. A Strawberry Pretzel Crunch Cake that was the perfect mix of all things fruity, sweet, a little salty, + decadent. All strawberry flavor coming from fresh strawberries + sweet strawberry jam, and then capped off with a sweet + tangy cream cheese frosting (which the best ever cream cheese buttercream I’ve ever eaten) and a salty pretzel crunch. A sweet + fruity cake for me with a little bit of a salty pretzel bite for Jordan.
Read MoreThis Biscoff + Strawberry Cake - taking the flavor and enjoyments of a cookie I usually only eat on airplanes to a whole new level. A sweet, Biscoff flavored cake with alternating layers of sweet, strawberry buttercream and a sweet cookie butter filling. It is sweet on sweet on sweet, but that distinct Biscoff flavor and fresh strawberries keep it perfectly balanced and so so good.
Read MoreBusted out the first cake of 2022 for Valentine’s Day, and the Strawberry Nutella Cake was one of the best fudgey, chocolatey desserts I’ve ever had. I love making chocolate desserts for Jordan, and I wanted to bust something out for Valentine’s Day - something that would satisfy his love for chocolate, and particularly his love for dark chocolate.
Read MoreI opted to make a PB+J Cake with Strawberry Jam - just a little something to enjoy at the end of the night that was a nod to eating pb+j donuts in our bed at the end of our wqedding night. I know - so cheesy. But cheesy is how I roll, and this little treat sparked some serious anniversary joy. And it was also just one of the best cakes ever.
Read MoreOne of the first things on the list to a holiday season full of fun - a night for our own Thanksgiving at the house & carving out time to enjoy this pumpkin pie. The Only Pumpkin Pie That Matters, which is a pie that is part decadent, part boozy, & part “new-age.”
Read MoreReal deal Key Lime Pie. I mean - it’s an icon of Summer desserts. Serving it up ice cold with that creamy whipped topping, punch-y dose of lime, + velvety texture. It’s the perfect last bite to a Summer dinner. I’ve never made one, & in this first attempt I can confirm it’s pretty darn simple (& hard to screw up for that matter).
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