I'm so excited to share this recipe with you! A quick back story: I've been on a slow food journey all of my life. Little changes have been made over a couple of decades, and my latest mission is to buy as much food as I can locally and support small farmers. I grew up on a dairy farm, and I love supporting them. Because we have a few more … Read More »
Snickerdoodle Apple Rum Cake
It's the third day in a row that began with temps in the negative double digits. That meant a day filled with deep cleaning, laundry whirring, and cooking something delicious. Make that delicious and boozy. I don't drink, but this weather is making me consider it...hehe. A good homemade rum cake has continued to elude me, but what if we made it … Read More »
Glazed Lemon Chiffon Cake
This is the perfect summer dessert! Recipe adapted from Taste of Home. … Read More »
Caramel Frosting
Sweet, gooey, oozing joy. That's what caramel is. It makes everything better. I'm pretty sure if we had more caramel in our lives, we would all be happier. Today I'm sharing another caramel recipe that is the perfect frosting to top a white or chocolate cake. I think it would be great to dip apples into as well. We did healthy last week, … Read More »
Banana Pudding Cake
It may not be the best day to post a dessert when an onslaught of Halloween candy is coming, but nonetheless, here it is! It's better, right? It has real fruit. *wink I must say, these are quite addictive. I cut some of the sugar out, so they're not unbearably sweet, and the vanilla pudding + real bananas make it very moist. Yes, it is … Read More »
Pound Cake
While I consider myself a better baker than any other type of cook, I have never been able to master homemade cake....any kind besides chocolate. It's been a long time since I have even tried, but I saw this recipe via Martha Stewart and thought I would give it a go. It didn't need cake flour {yipee!}, which I never have on hand. {I did find … Read More »
Simple Chocolate Cake
Do you like frosting on your cake? When we were kids, we begged our mom to leave it off. She would laugh and say.... "When we were kids, we hated that our mom never put frosting on the cakes. We begged her to make frosting so it wasn't 'bare naked' ". So which camp do you fall under? Either way is good, right? There are some recipes … Read More »
