The best part of summer is seeing all of the plants come to life and come into bloom. I love seeing the flowers but I particularly love lavender. It just smells amazing and the color is striking. I’ve always wanter to visit Provence and see the fields of lavender in bloom. I have a picture…
Maple Cream Cheese Carrot Bundt Cake
Carrot Cake has and always will have a special place in my heart. It was my favorite cake as a kid and I remember asking for it as my birthday cake several years in a row. When your birthday is on a major holiday, why not get fancy with cakes? Regular chocolate just won’t suffice….
Grapefruit Poppyseed Cake
My experience with grapefruit has been this: you slice it in half, sprinkle some sugar on it and have at the insides with a spoon to get out all of the flesh. It’s tart, not very sweet and is honestly more work for your breakfast than is necessary. But my experience with grapefruit has…
Pumpkin Chiffon Cake with Pumpkin Buttercream
Here’s my dirty little secret for when I bake with pumpkin. Have you ever noticed that baking with pumpkin puree can change the texture and consistency of a dish? Adding wet pumpkin puree can weigh down a mix and often it can lead to dense and chewy baked goods. But here’s my secret to…
Honey Apple Bundt Cake
To me Fall is all about apples. I know the world is crazy about pumpkin everything these days, but apples are and will forever be the original fall craze. I recently made this great Honey Apple Bundt Cake recipe that is just to die for. Seriously, if you try it you’ll be saying “Pumpkin…
Raspberry Vanilla Bean Magic Custard Cake
Do you believe in magic? Not the abra kadabra, pull a rabbit out of a hat kind. No, the magic of a food completely transforming as you bake it? Well you should, I mean all food tends to go through a similar process. But what makes my Raspberry Vanilla Bean Magic Custard Cake extra special is…
White chocolate Marmalade Cake
Who doesn’t like cake!?! I rarely make it (because I end up eating all of it…by myself), but man is it good! When I was growing up we had to have cake at every holiday and family function. My grandmother almost demanded it, and maintained that it didn’t count unless the cake was chocolate. Well…
Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes
Today I’m posting this delicious recipe for a pineapple upside down cupcake. When we were on vacation, my family, Tai and I went to a luau show at Disney and ate some of THE BEST food I’ve ever eaten. We never had a bad meal while at Disney but this was by far the absolute…
Marmalade Cake
I’d recently began looking through an old cookbook that I found when I was cleaning out my grandmother’s house. It is the Antrim Bicentennial Cookbook made by Antrim community members in 1977 to commemorate our town. It has been really interesting to see these family recipes, many of them from people I know. My…
Oreo Cream Cupcakes
Caution: Do not make these while dieting. Oreo Cream Cupcakes can and will cause an uncontrollable urge to eat all cupcakes in sight. Massive consumption may lead to a sugar high, which may in turn, after a few hours, cause you to crash and to think about your life choices after eating so many delicious…