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Olive oil cake with orange zest, rum & pistachios.

Yeah, I know. I know. It’s the beginning of June, and “who wants to be baking in a hot house?” I get it. I really do, no one knows better than I do about how horrid it is to bake a big complicated cake...

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Baby bundts.

(side note: look at the baby whisk!)   This post has nothing to do with babies. Not human ones. It has to do with another kind of baby: bundt cakes. Did I mention I was getting married? Yep. No, no…...

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Irish soda cakes: this time, in little loaves!

Wow, so St. Patrick’s Day is tomorrow. Time flies. I can’t believe in less than a month I’ll be a Mrs. And springtime isn’t far away! Just a few days! I think this is, like, the third or fourth time...

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Vanilla cake with a twist of lime.

So I get married, Jay goes to Europe, and I get the urge to make a cake. I never, ever make cakes. Mainly because I’m impatient, an you have to wait for cakes to cool before you take them out of the...

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Let’s talk about berries & bundts, bitches.

Remember I said I never make cakes? Unless its easy? Well… yeah. This is why I’m obsessed with these tiny little mini-bundts. Remember the mini-bundt pan I spoke about a few months ago? I love it....

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Ready for rhubarb: baked & pickled.

Rhubarb comes and goes very quickly. It’s fleeting, rhubarb season. You simply cannot just walk into a store here and get rhubarb any time you want during the growing season. It sells out of the...

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Flourless chocolate… messiness.

I have made this cake countless times. Countless. It’s one of my mother’s favorites, so I usually end up making it for her birthday (in July) or Mother’s Day. It’s an easy cake for warm weather because...

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Blueberry lemon lovin’.

This is a recipe I’ve made quite a few times, except I’ve never changed it up before. It’s actually a favorite of mine, especially in the summer. Lemon is super refreshing and summery tasting, and this...

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If you like pina colada… cake.

And now for something completely different! Pina colada cake! I know, random. I got tired of all the fruity stuff going on around here, guys. I needed to bake something that wasn’t a fruit tart. I’m...

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Another year older (and deeper in debt) …plus donuts.

Happy birthday to me! So, I am officially 34 years old! Holy balls. Time fucking flies, man. All you youngin’s out there, take heed. The years begin to move by so quickly you won’t have time to even...

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Wicked witch cupcakes.

(This was originally written for a contributor post on eighteen25, go take a look and see! And look for more posts by me over there soon.) Aren’t these adorable? I know they are. They’re definitely not...

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Spiced ginger walnut pumpkin cake with vanilla maple frosting.

Readers of my blog will remember when I said a few weeks ago that it was pumpkin time. Well, it definitely is. Pumpkin, pumpkin everywhere. As far as the eye can see! Pumpkin is the universal symbol-...

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Mini-bundt gingerbread cakes with brandy icing and sugared cranberries.

So, hey guys… I made some mini-bundt gingerbread cakes. Cutest little things. And add to them some cute little sparkly sugared cranberries. Ugh. Forget it. Are visions of sugarplums- or sugared...

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Depression era hipster cake.

I’m all about old timey things. I always say I was born in the wrong era- I should’ve been born around 1900 so I could have been a “flapper.” I love everything about the 1920’s/1930’s and I am obsessed...

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Almond ricotta cannoli cake with fresh fruit.

(This was originally written for a contributor post on eighteen25, go take a look and see! And look for more posts by me over there soon.) July 4th was America’s 240th birthday, and July 5th was my...

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