They Go Really Well Together is a monthly food blogging event that celebrates flavors paired at the molecular level. For this month’s round, Inge of African Vanielje chose apple and lavender as the magical combination to work with. I’ll be the first to confess that I have never cooked with lavender before, so I had [...]
Chocolate Birthday Cake
September 26, 2007 By 10 Comments
We’ve posted photos of some of the birthday cakes we make for our family, but we’ve never really mentioned what type of cake we make, so it’s high time we remedy that situation. Our favorite cake flavor is chocolate, and we’ve been using a recipe from Hershey’s for a sour cream chocolate cake that is [...]
Inside-Out German Chocolate Cake
August 3, 2007 By 20 Comments
German chocolate cake is actually not German at all. The recipe using Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate was first published in a Texas newspaper in the 1950s, although similar cakes had been popular in the South for many years. General Foods, which owned the Baker’s Chocolate brand, capitalized on the cake’s popularity and sent photos and [...]
The Daring Bakers Make Strawberry Mirror Cake
July 30, 2007 By 42 Comments
Two pounds of strawberries, 11 eggs, 14 ounces of whipping cream, a lot of sugar, and a little bit of gelatin make one delicious and pretty cake!
Little Einsteins Rocket Birthday Cake
November 11, 2006 By 127 Comments
My husband’s family has a fun tradition for birthdays. His brothers make birthday cakes for their children, but they aren’t the average sheet cake with plastic decorations on top. The cakes are three dimensional creations and have included a flying Superman cake (yes, he really flew) and an R2D2 cake complete with a top that [...]
Mom’s Retro Chocolate Sheet Cake (aka Texas Sheet Cake)
May 8, 2006 By 3 Comments
It’s interesting how popular recipes travel across the country as they are shared among friends and family. This recipe comes from both sides of our family. It’s a delicious retro chocolate sheet cake, also known as Texas Sheet Cake, and it’s one of my favorites from childhood. I remember my mother making these for parties, [...]
Grandma’s Coconut Cake
April 15, 2006 By 15 Comments
We love this cake for holidays and birthdays. The nearly 100-year-old recipe was handed down to my mother from my late paternal grandmother, who learned it from my great-aunt Gladys. My mother tried for years to get the recipe right because it’s my father’s favorite cake. When Mom finally made a coconut cake that tasted [...]
Mardi Gras King Cake (the recipe)
March 5, 2006 By 8 Comments
King cakes are a traditional Mardi Gras dessert, and according to legend the royal colors of purple, green and gold on the cake honor the three kings who visited the Christ child on Epiphany. But King Cakes can be made year-round for many festive occasions, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, weddings, birthdays, etc, just choose the [...]
Eggnog Pound Cake
January 15, 2006 By 3 Comments
I couldn’t decide what I wanted for my birthday cake this year, at least not until I saw the leftover eggnog in the frig. That set me off on a search for a cake recipe that calls for eggnog. There is no lack of recipes available, but so many of them began with the first [...]
Sugar-Topped Coffee Cake
January 10, 2006 By 1 Comment
The Farm Journal’s Homemade Breads cookbook was the very first cookbook I ever bought, and that was way back in my early college years. It’s been a wonderful resource. My copy of the book is falling apart and held together with Contact paper and tape. I’ve made this coffee cake for years, and it’s always [...]
