Apple Fritter Bread
Apple Fritter Bread is a delicious quick bread that’s jam packed with chunky, fresh apples and a comforting swirl of brown sugar and cinnamon. A …
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Apple Fritter Bread is a delicious quick bread that’s jam packed with chunky, fresh apples and a comforting swirl of brown sugar and cinnamon. A …
Spicy Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes get a kick of spice with just enough cinnamon and cayenne to keep the deep, dark chocolate flavor lingering deliciously on your palette. Top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a sprinkling of cinnamon for the most delicious chocolate dessert. Perfect for Valentine’s Day or whenever you want to warm somebody’s heart!
This Cherry Cheese Danish Cake was inspired by delicious cherry cheese Danish pastries. Instead of a flaky pastry, this cake boasts a delicious layer of almond scented cake and a creamy layer of cheesecake. Lightly sweetened cherries and spoonfuls of reserved cake batter create a cobblestone like surface that is then drizzled with a simple icing.
This Crazy Pumpkin Olive Oil Cake is naturally dairy free, no eggs, milk or butter necessary! It’s based on a Depression era type of cake …
Pumpkin Pie Gingerbread Cake is a perfect mash up of two delicious fall desserts. Homemade pumpkin pie filling is baked right on top of gingerbread …
Celebrate fall with this Apple Pie Bundt Cake. Pound cake batter, rich with butter and cream, is layered with an easy stove top apple pie …
This Pumpkin Ale Cake is moist, tender and nicely spiced. It’s a great cake for the fall and a perfect choice for Thanksgiving dessert. It’s …
Chai Spiced Pear Bundt Cake is filled with fresh ripe pears and gently spiced with cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. A spiced icing is accented with …
Mandarin Orange Pineapple Cream Cake. Layers of mandarin orange cake, filled with pineapple coconut pastry cream and covered in pineapple whipped cream and coconut chips. …
This Triple Layer Pumpkin Nutella Cheesecake was originally going to be a simple pumpkin cheesecake. But, having just made a classic pumpkin pie with no …
This has definitely been the year of the crumb cake for me. Once I posted my Chocolate Chip Crumb Cake, I looked for every opportunity …
So I said to myself…I said, “Self? If you can make ice box cakes, why can’t you make ice box CUPcakes? And, if you can …
What should one do when one has left over pound cake? Make Raspberry White Chocolate Pound Cake Biscotti! This is the last installment in the …
This Triple Citrus Pound Cake was an unplanned post. In many ways, it was simply the means to an end. In my cooking and baking …
This lightened up version of Italian Cream Cake has been on my list to make since I first discovered it years ago. That was back …
I originally was going to call this Pumpkin Ricotta Bundt Cake, “Pumpkin Ricotta Custard Bundt Cake.” But, that’s a mouthful of words that doesn’t quite …
Surprise! I know it’s Sunday and I don’t usually post on this day, but it’s a special day here in my little corner of the …
I’m hoping this Lemon Ricotta Crumb Cake sticks out from the myriad of back to school snacks, pumpkin and apple treats that are so popular …
I wanted to get this Rhubarb Upside Down Cake into a post before the very last bit of rhubarb is gone for the season. I …
I’ve been meaning to share this Strawberry Tres Leches Cake with you for a couple of weeks. With berries beginning to show up in greater …
How many chocolate cake recipes does one person need? As of this post, I have three other chocolate cake recipes on the site. These Dark Chocolate …
There are pros and cons to having a blog. One of cons is not having as much time to try out new recipes from friends, …
How do you feel about lemon desserts? I don’t think I’ve ever met one that I didn’t like. Actually, my fondness for lemon is not …
This Crazy Chocolate Olive Oil Cake recipe has stayed with me through all the stages of my life as an easy, go to chocolate cake. …
Well, that sure went fast! Today is the anniversary of the birth of The Merchant Baker. One year ago today, I very nervously pressed the …
Hey! Somebody baked me a birthday cake! Ummm, probably because I asked for it…and not in the, “Hey, do you want to bake me a …
It has never occurred to me to make a White Zucchini Cake… I’d always made zucchini cake as a chocolate cake and reserved non-chocolate zucchini …
Our garden produced it’s first fruits while we were away last week. Two, to be exact. We came home to our first zucchini of the …
Everything that is wonderful about this cake is in the name. Pineapple Coconut Tres Leches Cake. Pineapple? Yum! Coconut? Yum! Tres Leches? Yes! Cake? Absolutely! …
I made a promise last week. Today I’m delivering. This is the recipe for the Whipped Chocolate Frosting I used on the Pac Man cake …
Remember Orange Olive Oil Cake? We liked it so much, I decided to try another flavor in a smaller size. With Lemon Lime Cream Slab Pie now weeks …
Hold everything! I finally baked beer in a cupcake and I LOVED IT! I made Chocolate Stout Cupcakes filled with Irish Cream and wow, they …
It’s a simple name. Strawberry cake. I thought about calling it Fresh Strawberry Cake, but this recipe uses frozen strawberries. It could have been Natural Strawberry …
Orange Olive Oil Cake…O.M.Y. (Oh My Yum!) A good friend generously coined this phrase after viewing one of my recent posts. It might be too casual a term …
This is banana bread masquerading as a snack cake. A few years ago, one of the mom’s at my daughter’s school asked me if I …
This is my favorite apple cake. (Now with updated photos, recipe card and additional written content! 9-20-17) Somehow I had forgotten that I had a …
This was a birthday cake for someone special. Someone who loves peanut butter and chocolate desserts and who can pretty much be counted on to …
This may look like a plain Jane cake. Its appearance is pretty basic but don’t let its simple looks fool you. This is one delicious treat. It was …