Cake

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 …

Strawberry Whipped Cream Cream Cheese Frosting is an easy to make, not too sweet frosting naturally flavored with freeze dried strawberries!

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 …

Easy Cannoli Breakfast Cake. There’s no mixer required for this easy and delicious cake. It has all the cannoli flavors you love… it’s rich with …

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 …

Mermaid Birthday Sugar Cookie Bars. Birthday cake flavored sugar cookie bars are topped with colorful swirls of frosting and festive sprinkles. I thought we could …

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 post for Whipped Cream Cream Cheese Frosting was originally published on February 7th, 2015. It has been updated with additional photos, text and a …

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 …

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 …

Chocolate Chip Crumb Cake. A delicious breakfast cake, rich with sour cream and butter, dotted with chocolate chips and crowned with a sweet crumb topping.  …

That’s right. I said, “Ultimate.” Why is this the Ultimate Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal? Two words. Cream. Cheese. Oh and of course it has oatmeal …

Hey! How was your Thanksgiving? We had a lovely break, spent with family and friends. I could go for one more week “off” just to …

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 …

Welcome to my new summer chocolate obsession…Fudgy Zucchini Brownies! To be honest, I haven’t had much of an appetite for sweets this summer. It’s just …

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 …

At long last, Chocolate Whipped Cream Cream Cheese Frosting is here! And yes. It is getting it’s very own post. If you’ve tried Whipped Cream …

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 …

Fluffy Sweet Cornbread. Could be a little controversial, since there seem to be two camps when it comes to cornbread… There are those who like …

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. …

Flashback Friday is where I share some of our creative endeavors that happened before the blog. This one doesn’t flashback very far, but I know …

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 …

Hey there.  Checking in to say I haven’t forgotten about you. What’s been going on here? Well….I was getting a couple of posts ready for …

What is it about powdered sugar that too much is never too much? You know I don’t like things over the top sweet, but these …

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 …

This is Part Two of The Pac Man Party, the second installment of my latest series, Flashback Friday. In this series, I share some past …

Welcome to Flashback Friday, a new series on The Merchant Baker. Here, I hope to share some of our creative endeavors… projects that we worked …

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 …

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you leftover ganache and cake crumbs, make Chocolate Stout Cake Crumb Truffles. This post is …

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 …