Moist Carrot Cake Carrot cake is obligatory for Easter. Tender yet hearty with ample fold-in fillings, carrot cake just feels right. Biting into a slice of moist carrot cake is just as ritualistic as dyeing eggs or making an Easter ham. Baking a moist carrot cake seldom is a boring tradition. I cannot settle for…
Pistachio Watergate Cake
Pistachio Watergate Cake Why this cake got its named, Pistachio Watergate Cake with Cover-Up frosting, is beyond my understanding. I do like a good mystery, food history wise. Pistachio cake with fluffy frosting all made with the semi-homemade way: pistachio pudding mix, cake mix, soda, whipped cream topping. Food Timeline demonstrates the lovely web of…
Krampus Cake
Krampus Cake At this point in the holiday season, everything is wonderfully white and frosted. The world becomes adorned with glittery sprinkles and sweet warmth. Why not make a contrast? For the season, while every cake is white-chocolate-this or eggnog-flavored-that, I wanted to make something to represent the darker side of the Christmas season. Enter,…
Manly Cake
Manly Cake Manly Cake. There is a reason behind calling this cake such. It’s interesting to learn how certain desserts and flavors are gendered. Layer cakes are no exception to this rule. Looking through countless 20th century advertisements and cookbooks, you’re sure to find a light and fluffy pink frosted cake “perfect for lady lunches”…
Chocolate Buttercrunch Cake
Chocolate Buttercrunch Cake Chocolate buttercrunch cake, where have you been all of these months? Or more correctly where has chocolate cake—in any form—been? It has been a disgustingly long time since I posted a chocolate cake. December? January? That’s bad, that’s real bad. This cake makes up for the long chocolate cake dry spell! At…
Peanut Butter Jelly Cake
Peanut Butter Jelly Cake I guess if I was a well known popular food blogger, I’d catch the reader’s attention with some sort of snazzy and quirky tag line. I’d then get all nostalgic drawing my motivation to make this peanut butter jelly cake from some fond warm memories of childhood’s most famous sandwich. I’d…
Party Animal Zebra Cake
Party Animal Zebra Cake I forced this Party Animal Zebra Cake into existence. It did not come together without a struggle. This whole cake idea was a medium to display my lovely disco mirror balls. My impulsive mirror ball purchase was inspired by Studio DIY’s funky throwback post back in November. I know I’ve been…
White Chocolate Candy Cake
White Chocolate Candy Cake How did white chocolate candy cake come about? Well, sometimes the stars align and point out a very good course of action. For months I had accrued various white chocolate novelties: white chocolate peanut butter this, and white chocolate truffles that…Don’t even remind me about the 4 + bags of white…
Samoa Cake
Samoa Cake It is magical, this time of year. And no I’m not talking about Springtime, yet I am very appreciative of the weather. I hate snow with a passion. But I am talking about Girl Scout Cookies. Paying homage to these cookies I made a Samoa Cake. I remember secretly ordering girl scout cookies…
Unicorns and Rainbows Cake
Unicorns and Rainbows Cake Unicorns and Rainbows, funfetti, confetti cake, whatever you call it—something mythically angelic happens when you fold sprinkles into batter. This type of cake is something much more than a colorful cake. This Unicorns and Rainbows cake is an ode to one of my former places of employment—Baked & Wired in Washington…