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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While lemon isn’t typically a fall harvest or Halloween flavor, it certainly is tasty!Enjoy this super simple white lemon loaf cake, with layers of vanilla buttercream frosting, and festive orange sprinkles for your pre-trick-or-treating Halloween snack!! 🧡🎃👻💀🕷
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Who needs chocolate when spiced cinnamon raisin vanilla goodies are around, right?Well, while you may or may not be a chocolate lover, you’ll love this cake! You really, REALLY will.It’s dense, moist, and flavorful enough that frosting isn’t even a requirement- thus, I “invented” a spiced vanilla whipped cream “frosting” for you. It’s truly amazing….
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Another order came my way.Can you believe this!!!!!!!!It’s January. It’s wintery.We still need those warming spicy flavors, with a hint of vanilla orange creamsicle, right? My favorite thing about these Winter Vanilla Orange Cinnamon Nutmeg Cupcake treats is that they all look DIFFERENT. They are uniquely beautiful in all 12 ways. (The recipe makes 12…
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When you’ve just catered a fancy-schmancy dinner and you have leftover Meyer lemons and white chocolate frosting…what do you do? Well, in my house, you bake and frost a cake, of course! And then you deliver it to dear friends. If you’ve never had a Meyer lemon, run (RUN) to the market and pick some…
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Honey cake emerges from its hibernation around the High Holidays in the fall, when honey and other sweet foods are eaten to usher in a sweet new year. But as much as this is an early fall cake for the holidays, its warming spices make it a perfect winter cake as the finish to a delightful…
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When my favorite little niece was surprised to see a lack of fresh, homemade cranberry sauce on the Thanksgiving table this year, I took it upon myself to treat her to something even a little bit better this Christmas. Cranberry and orange spiced cake. With all the other traditional Christmas adornments across the table, this…
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