Irish apple cake has a scone-like texture and is studded with chopped apples. Serve with vanilla sauce for a delicious dessert.
Cakes and Cupcakes
Apple butter pound cake has delicious apple flavor with hints of cinnamon, a ripple of apple butter, and a creamy caramel glaze.
This tutorial shows you how to use frosting to turn your cupcakes into rose cupcakes using buttercream frosting and a few piping tools.
Cranberry crumb cake combines an orange-flavored cake, sugared cranberries and crumb topping for a delicious holiday breakfast or dessert.
Scare up some fun with this spooky Halloween Spiderweb Cake. It involves basic piping techniques, so it's easy enough for beginner cake decorators!
Since most of the world's rum is produced in the islands of the Caribbean, the liquor is found in many dishes native to The Bahamas. One of those is rum cake, a buttery treat with a strong rum flavor.
Strawberry shortcake cupcakes are an easy dessert that kids and adults alike will enjoy. Bake the cupcakes and macerate the strawberries ahead of time, then top with whipped cream and strawberries just before serving.
Grilled pound cake with peaches and mascarpone is a delicious summer dessert made right on the grill, the perfect ending to your cookout.
Pina colada cupcakes are soaked in rum syrup, filled with pineapple, and frosted with coconut whipped cream. A delicious summer treat!
Butterscotch Krimpets are sponge cakes topped with butterscotch frosting. They originated in Philadelphia, and are a local institution! When people move away from Philadelphia, there are a few things they miss. Family, sure, but then there's the food. You just can't get a decent cheesesteak outside of the tri-state area (Southeast PA, South Jersey, and …
Turn your favorite cupcake recipe into these adorable Easter Basket Cupcakes, topped with BUTTERFINGER® NestEggs! Kids of all ages will love them! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #EggcellentTreats #CollectiveBias
Eggnog pound cake makes a delicious Christmas dessert, or package it up to give as a homemade gift!
This make-ahead, no-bake cranberry apple charlotte cake will wow your holiday guests with its apple and cranberry flavors, and beautiful presentation.
Pumpkin Cake with Salted Caramel Icing is a decadent fall treat. Three layers of moist pumpkin cake is layered with satin-smooth salted caramel Swiss buttercream.
Wow your friends at your next get-together! Learn how to make patriotic cupcakes with this easy Firecracker Cupcakes tutorial. It's nearly the 4th of July, which means Independence Day here in the United States. I live in a very historic area of Philadelphia, so the colors red, white and blue are EVERYWHERE. I'm a history …
Fool your friends and family with these sweet fake-out sliders and fries! Cupcakes are turned into buns, brownies are the burgers, and pound cake for fries. It's almost April Fools Day, and the Sunday Supper Movement is having fun fooling with food! Food that looks like other food, food that contains hidden ingredients — anything …
Baking cakes puts me in my happy place. I hope the moist, tender crumb of these cupcakes and the bright citrus filling and frosting will put you in a happy place, too. Compensation was provided by Gallo Family Vineyards via Sunday Supper, LLC. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and are not …
Hosting a red carpet viewing party? Dress up your dessert table in this tuxedo cake: chocolate cake iced with buttercream and drizzled with chocolate ganache. There's an awards show on tonight, and while I watch simply for the fashion (and this particular year, Neil Patrick Harris), many people make a party night out of the show, …
What's better than cup of hot cocoa? Hot cocoa cupcakes! Prepared cocoa adds flavor to the cupcake batter, and they're finished with a swirl of marshmallow buttercream on top! One of my favorite things to do as a blogger is participate in blog "events," like Cheesecake Day and Ice Cream Week. A few months back, I …
Fresh raspberry puree creates a pretty pink, fruity swirl inside this tender, buttery pound cake. My foodie friend, Colleen from Souffle Bombay, was thinking about just what cookbook it was that made her fall in love with cooking recently, then she decided to ask the same question to a number of her foodie friends, myself …
These adorable ice cream sundae cupcakes look like the real thing, but won't melt in the summer sun! Perfect for barbecues, potlucks and picnics! It's (unofficially) summer time again, and time for barbecues, potlucks and picnics. If I'm bringing a dish, I almost always bring a dessert. I try to bring something different from the …
Happy Easter! Sorry for the lack of posts lately. My laptop has officially died. Right now, I'm blogging from the world's smallest netbook, courtesy of Dave. Thankfully, I will be able to recover all the data (like all of my past blog photos, copies of past tax returns, and every picture of Liam I've ever …
Two years old. Nearly 3 feet tall. Almost 30 pounds. Obsessed with cheese and fruit (just like Mommy!). Loves trains, cars, trucks and buses. Loves to read books, his favorites being "Pajama Time" by Sandra Boynton and the "I Spy" series. We celebrated Liam's second birthday with a small party. We chose the "Very Hungry …
This post was supposed to be my submission for the November What's Baking theme, Baking with Cranberries. I missed the submission deadline, but we had this cake for Thanksgiving dessert, and it was so delicious, I really wanted to share it. I really could not get over how moist this cake is. Though the original …
Chocolate pumpkin porter cupcakes have a full 12 ounces of pumpkin porter beer! They're complemented by cinnamon-spiced buttercream. Today's guest post is by Kim, the author behind Feed Me Seymour. I "met" Kim through a cooking-focused forum, and found out she's formerly from the Philadelphia area. I love her Harry Potter Butterbeer cupcakes, and also made …
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend my first-ever food bloggers conference, The Big Summer Potluck. It was not what I expected. I had heard about other blogger conferences, which had sessions on search engine optimization, social media tools, and how to take better photos. This conference was not like that at all. …
I am so mad at myself. I dropped my camera a few weeks ago. The body itself is (mostly) fine, but I broke my zoom lens. Now, I know that I'm not publishing the highest-quality photos on this blog, but the quality I get with the kit lens just isn't the same. Which is a …
Hostess cupcakes. Most can't picture their childhood without them. Being a Philadelphian, we were a TastyKake family, but had Hostess cupcakes on occasion. Many people were upset when the company announced the end of the Hostess product line. Metropoulos bought the Twinkie, Ding Dong and Cupcakes brands from Hostess, but there's been no announcement made …
I spent a day or two, perusing cupcake recipes, looking for a "knock-their-socks-off" flavor combo to bring to a baby playdate. "Why?" you ask, "It's just a baby playdate." That's just how I am. I can't just bring a dessert. I have to bring the OMG-this-is-the-best-EVER dessert. But I found myself hesitating. What if someone …
Valentine's Day is almost cruel. Thanksgiving and Christmas bring loads of rich, savory dishes and delicious desserts. You gain a few extra pounds. Then New Year comes along and you make a resolution to eat healthy, exercise and lose the weight. You start off doing well, creating new, better habits, and then BAM! Valentine's Day. …
Earlier this month, I saw on The Frugal Foodie Mama's blog that she, along with This Gal Cooks, were hosting the first ever Spiked! Recipe Challenge. Alcohol can lend great flavor to sweet and savory recipes, so the Spiked! Recipe Challenge encourages bloggers to create or adapt a recipe to include alcohol. The January challenge …
My little peanut isn't exactly a peanut anymore. He turns 1 year old tomorrow (?!?). But I'll save the mushy, sentimental stuff for then. We chose to celebrate his birthday the weekend before, rather than try to cram another thing into a holiday weekend. The theme — sock monkeys — was pretty easy to chose, …
Though I work as a graphic designer by day (well, more like by night, but that's not the point), I also have an Associate of Science degree in Pastry Arts. I worked briefly in the food service industry, icing grocery store cakes baking bread, and plating restaurant desserts. However, my daydreams of what it would be …
Tiramisu, an Italian dessert whose name translates to "pick me up," combines a few of my favorite things: coffee, chocolate, and rich, creamy custard. If tiramisu is listed on a restaurant dessert menu, you can bet I'll order it. I learned how to make it at home, and I love to make it when I …
I recently participated in a discussion among other food bloggers about the food at casual dining chain restaurants. Places like The Olive Garden, TGI Fridays, or Applebees. The food is decent, but doesn't always quite live up to your expectations. The discussion turned into a question: "Have you ever eaten at a chain restaurant and thought, 'I …
As I've mentioned before, we alternate between themed swaps (specific proteins, cuisines, ingredients, etc.), and swaps where we're assigned a blog and can choose any recipe we want. The latter is now called the "Blogger's Choice" swap. And that's what this round was themed. I was assigned the blog Feed Me, Seymour by Kim Cooper. The …
I'm making these wedding cake bites (based on Bakerella's Wedding Cake Pops) for a bridal shower tomorrow afternoon. I made a test batch last weekend, and my cakes kept sliding down the stick, so I decided to just leave them off the sticks, and serve them on miniature doilies, or possibly in cupcake liners. To …
I haven't typically been one to celebrate Valentine's Day for the last several years. It was one of the few times I hated going out to eat, and any gift even remotely romantic has its price jacked up because of the holiday. This year, I decided (very last minute) to cook a "nicer than normal" …
Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, dipped in melted Ghirardelli 60% cacoa bittersweet chocolate chips, and decorated with red cookie frosting hearts I've been hearing a lot about these treats lately, made popular by Bakerella. They're genius, really. I love cake, and I get really frustrated when I go to turn it out of the pan, and it breaks. …
This is the chocolate cake recipe from a bakery that I worked at back in late 2006. I think it's the best chocolate cake I've ever tasted. It's very moist and the addition of coffee enhances chocolate flavor. The amount of batter that this recipe makes is enough for about two double-layer 8- or 9-inch …