Vanilla Rainbow Easter Cake

Everyone deserves a little (or a lot) of rainbow 🌈 and magic in their life – especially this time of year! 🐣🐰💐Easter is magical – it’s springtime – colors are blossoming – and the sunshine ☀️ is inevitably on the way! Sweets are called for, of course. Vanilla Rainbow Cake – Easter celebration cake! Despite…

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Marvelous Mandarin Orange Cake

Mandarin Orange Cake — also known as “Dream Cake” or “Pig Pickin’ Cake” — was made from scratch. Whether it began its culinary life as a from-scratch cake, or it’s been a prepared box-cake-Cool-Whip creation all its life, is unknown to me; but these days, it’s usually made with mostly processed ingredients. Most of its…

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Lavender Raspberry Rhubarb Cake

I simply couldn’t wait for my next pie assignment. I just had to get my hands on the rhubarb while it was still fresh in the garden. And, I couldn’t bring myself to whip up the standard strawberry-rhubarb combination. I had to do something different. Rhubarb in inherently super duper tart – but often over…

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