Super Easy Chocolate Lemon Lava Cake

So I made the cake… …and then I ate some… It’s melty, molten, super sweet, and surprisingly simple. “It’s *$!king delicious,” in the words of my honey pie. Super Easy Chocolate Lemon Lava Cake 1 10 oz. box gluten-free cocoa cereal 1 cup butter, melted 3 eggs 1 cup milk of any type (almond, hemp, soy, cow)…

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Cranberry Orange Upside Down Cake

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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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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Sicilian Orange Salted Olive Oil Cake

The fact that I don’t necessarily LOVE sweet treats (well, I have my own definition when it comes to sweets) makes this orange scented olive oil cake – with plenty of salt, I might add – just perfect for my palate. The bitter pith of the oh, so sweet oranges boils away to almost nothing,…

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Lemon Custard Strawberry Tiara Cake

Well, there’s really not much else to say here – no story really – other than two princesses in the kitchen creating their own little tiara cakes from fresh strawberries and lemon. Yum! Can you taste it yet? I’m sure you can smell that lemon cake baking… Lemon Custard Strawberry Tiara Cake Cake: 1 cup…

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