This Summer, it’s a Raspberry Lemon Cake, and let me just say that the frozen slices we still have on hand are coveted items in our house. This cake is just classic and delicious. It’s sweet + tangy + the perfect showcase of both fruits. Whole raspberries + a generous portion of fresh lemon juice get baked right into the cake for bold flavors from the jump.
Read MoreThe cake was new - a Pink Velvet Cake. It was light, airy, and tasted like a box cake in the best way. From first bite, all I could think was Betty Crocker. It was an instant transport back to childhood birthday parties. Paired with a vibrant raspberry + pistachio filling took this cake to the next level, added some texture + fun flavors, and stayed on theme with my pink + green vision.
Read MoreI made it all in one bowl, it was literally so easy to whip together, it broke a lot of the cake “rules” I head a lot about on the Great British Baking Show. Yet it was nothing short of amazing. The Chocolate PB+J Cake was layers of the richest dark chocolate cake, peanut butter mousse, raspberry compote, and shortbread pieces. Imagine creating a PB+J moment on top of an Oreo - that’s kind of what this was like.
Read MoreI went big for the inaugural 2025 cake bake - homemade filling, a baked in crust, all the fun colors - giving it all the things. The final product: a Blueberry Cake with an Oat Crisp Crust + Blueberry Compote that was chef’s kiss good.
Read MorePumpkin Pie Cake just seemed right, and it’s possibly the most perfect pumpkin dessert I’ve ever made. I took inspiration from my favorite pumpkin pie, the one I make almost every year, and took my favorite elements from that dessert + transplanted them here in this layer cake.
Read MoreI whipped up a quick strawberry-raspberry jam + a graham cracker crunch to sandwich in between the layers, and this Lemon Cream Cheese Buttercream to tie everything together. & it was so good! A novel concept really - juice a whole lemon and add it to the cream cheese buttercream frosting I always use, and there it is.
Read MoreSo I researched, took notes, found fun elements to piece together, and finally decided that this Peanut Butter Twix Cake is my kind of chocolate cake. It’s chocolate-y + sweet + rich cake that’s also balanced with the perfect amount of salty components. It has texture + flavor, and gets a 10/10 cake at our house.
Read MoreI decided on a Raspberry + Pistachio Cake, and everything from the flavor to the texture to vibe was a hit here at our house. A delicate & sweet raspberry lemon cake with a fresh raspberry compote, a pistachio cream cheese filling, and some pistachio crunch. Finished with my ultimate favorite - a cream cheese frosting.
Read MoreThis Blackberry Crisp Cake hit all the right notes at our house. Fresh blackberries, a sweet cream cheese buttercream, and a spiced + crunchy oat crisp in between the layers. It’s all just perfect. The oat crisp adds this cinnamon note, and adds that little bit of spice that makes it so reminiscent of a classic crisp of crumble.
Read MoreThe cake that I’ll remember as the first I (somewhat successfully) decorated with the cutest old school piping. And did it in my favorite hue of vibrant pink. Fun ribbons around the sides, a shell boarder around the top, and cute little double stacked rosettes in the center. All perfectly matched to the Sweet Strawberry Crisp Cake inside.
Read MoreI made a belated cake I’d had my eye on - this Apple Cider + Salted Caramel Cake with an Apple Pie Filling. Damn was it good + damn did I feel like I earned this treat. Did a little Christmas decorating practice and had a lovely time with this one.
Read MoreIt’s been my Summer 2023 goal to find a “go-to” lemon + berry cake, and we ended the season with the best variation yet - this Lemon Cake with Strawberry Jam + Lemon Crumble. A cake batter loaded with lemon zest + fresh squeezed lemon juice, layered with a fresh strawberry jam (that’s so good we can’t stop putting it on toast + crackers + everything in between), cream cheese frosting, and a lemon shortbread crumble.
Read MoreThe cake: Banana Peanut Butter Cake. A nutty, tangy, salty-sweet kinda cake, and a new favorite at our house. It gives banana bread vibes with this banana cake base - made with a hearty amount of freshly mashed bananas - and a cream cheese frosting to encase the whole thing. The good stuff was all in the layers, which I packed with a peanut butter cream cheese filling, salted caramel, + chopped peanuts.
Read MoreI do get the post vacation blues. It’s so bad - it’s that transition back into norma life that’s truly not it for me. But this Raspberry + Oreo Layer Cake helped ease the pain. All pink + decorated to a Valentine’s theme. And very, very delicious. It’s chocolate-y+ fresh + so many layers of raspberry flavor. My favorite - a fresh raspberry curd + a cream cheese oreo filling that come together for a dreamy middle layer that gives this chocolate covered strawberry vibe.
Read MoreThis Fruity Pebbles Cake was a long time coming! Sweet + crunchy + bursting with color. A cake infused with a sweet cereal milk + crispy fruity pebble layers, and held together by my most favorite thing - cream cheese frosting. It was a fun cake to make + eat, and a in all a 10 out of 10 bake.
Read MoreThis is a cake that really has it all. Super chocolate-y layers that sit on top of a graham cracker + pretzel crust (my personal favorite part) with the most delish peanut butter-cheesecake layer nestled in between. And let me not forget the chopped up peanuts + peanut butter cups sandwiched right with the filling. They’re in the mix for texture (duh), but they add so much. Every forkful of cake + crust + filling + frosting (all the elements) is so genuinely good
Read MoreI grew up LOVING cherry pie, and that filling was what my little taste buds were after. That sweet, gooey, and thick filling with tender, juicy cherries - it was my dessert of choice back in the day. Pretty sure I’ve eaten lots of Marie Calendar’s cherry pie slices at family functions, and that’s a fact my parents can speak to.
Read MoreSo blueberry cake round 2 came in the form of this Cream Cheese Cake - comprised of airy + light cream cheese cake layers, held together by a sweet + tangy cream cheese frosting, and layered with crunchy hazelnuts and a homemade blueberry compote. The real take-away is that you can totally have fun with the fruity filling, and this cream cheese cake + cream cheese frosting pairing is perfect enough to hang with a lot of different cake fillings.
Read MoreOur cake choice - a fruity + fun Blueberry Cobbler Cake. This cake is all thing fruity, sweet + crunchy, with subtle salty + tangy notes for balance. The cake itself is packed with fresh blueberries, and a homemade blueberry compote is layered in between each light + fluffy cake layer. It’s pure blueberry flavor that’s combined with crumbly, cobbler pieces and a light + tangy cream cheese frosting (which is actually the best cream cheese frosting ever!).
Read MoreSo like all good things, we celebrated with cake. And a really, really good one at that. A Strawberry Pretzel Crunch Cake that was the perfect mix of all things fruity, sweet, a little salty, + decadent. All strawberry flavor coming from fresh strawberries + sweet strawberry jam, and then capped off with a sweet + tangy cream cheese frosting (which the best ever cream cheese buttercream I’ve ever eaten) and a salty pretzel crunch. A sweet + fruity cake for me with a little bit of a salty pretzel bite for Jordan.
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