Rich flavors of chocolate and coconut – yes! In a cake – yes, YES! Moist and decadent, light and fluffy, and so easy, and then also dusted with shredded coconut, the dessert is much like a cloud of heaven. You know, when you dream you’re floating, weightlessly in the firmament, slathered in melting chocolate and…
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Light, fluffy, and deliciously tangy, but with super smooth and creamy white chocolate cinnamon cream layers, this Lemon White Chocolate Sugared Cinnamon Layer Cake is the perfect dessert – particularly for a 40th Birthday Celebration!!!! There’s no shortage of bright lemon flavor in the dessert, but the citrus zing is perfectly complemented by the richness…
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While we all know there is nothing on earth that can beat the marriage of peanut butter and chocolate (thank you, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – you’ll always have my heart – don’t forget Buckeyes and Peanut M&M’s), the addition of a puddle of melted ice cream to the mix is not quite as intuitively…
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It’s INDEPENDENCE DAY! 🇺🇸🎆🎇🇺🇸❤️💙!!!Let’s celebrate our freedom and our ability to party today! Yahoo! I’m ready for a friend’s BBQ party, bringing along 50 – yes, 50 decorated vanilla cupcakes, donned in white buttercream and red, white, and blue firecracker sprinkles. They are beautiful. They are divine. And they represent all the great things we…
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What do you do with leftover polenta (coarse ground cornmeal – Italian “grits”) and pomegranate seeds, knowing you have plenty of winter-perfect maple syrup in the pantry? (PURE, 100% MAPLE SYRUP 🍁 – don’t mess around with anything less).Well, you bake a cake, OF COURSE!!! As a neighbor said to me, “it’s beautiful, but it…
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Just ask me to bake a cake. See what happens.OR, just tell me your birthday – wait for a delivery.I LOVE baking. I LOVE celebrating others. Food is my love language.And, I became immersed in love, love-giving, and love “making” (don’t read too much into those words) in baking this cake for one of my…
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While we are still experiencing the lingering heat of the summer season, the hankering for iced lemonade and peach ice cream, the spicy scents of fall are just around the corner.Soon it will be time for ginger and molasses – yes, that’s right!So, to unite the two seasons and bring our lingering thoughts of sunshine…
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Remember how I’ve mentioned that when Meyer Lemons are available at the market, you must drop everything you’re doing and RUN (not walk) to the nearest vender and scoop up as many as you can. These precious orbs are so rare, so amazingly delicious, and so diverse for kitchen creativity!!!! All that said, you need…
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It’s Mandarin Orange Season – “Cutie” Season, in my neck of the woods.You need to try this cake. It’s moist, tender, and packed full of vibrant orange flavor. Twelve WHOLE Mandarin oranges (in full form) – yes, 12, go into the the cake batter, creating a sweet and tangy slush, to be mixed with sweetened…
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Easy white cupcakes are soft, delicate, and surprisingly simple to make from scratch. These moist and light-as-air cupcakes are perfect for weddings, events, birthdays, AND baby showers! Jelly (Angelica) requested “white on white” for her sweet treats at the party. And, thus, she received. A white chocolate buttercream made all the difference! White on White…
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