How to make a lemon cake from scratch using freshly squeezed lemons It is summer and we have plenty of lemons in south Texas. It is so nice to have different cake flavors for different occasions, so let me share with you this lemon cake recipe and how I made it using freshly squeezed lemons This recipe is very similar…
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Chocolate Cake Recipe
Chocolate Cake Recipe All I can say about this chocolate cake recipe made from scratch is that it is AMAZING. It tastes as good as it looks and has a beautiful texture. This chocolate cake is made with the special dark Hershey’s cocoa which gives a robust cocoa flavor. And the use of real butter and whole milk make this…
Vanilla Cake Recipe
How to make a vanilla cake recipe How to make a fluffy vanilla cake from scratch. It sounds pretty easy to make a vanilla cake from scratch, right? Well, it is. Once you have a go-to recipe that you know it will come out really flavorful and fluffy every time you can make a cake in no time. This vanilla…
Cranberry Orange Cake
Make this easy mouthwatering cranberry orange cake from scratch, decorated with swiss meringue buttercream. Wow your guest with this exquisite homemade cake.
Funfetti Cake
Confetti cake, also known as Funfetti cake! My intention for this cake was to provide an easy, fun to make and great looking cake, for anyone to make and for any occasion. My kids loved the idea of the cake batter having little colorful “lines”. And to a certain extent I was excited too, I mean I had never had…
Vanilla Cake Recipe from Scratch
How to make the best vanilla cake from scratch Is it from scratch? That is a question I have heard so many times in the 12+ years I have been making cakes. My answer to that sometimes was YES, of course; but the majority of times I would bake a cake the answer would be a big NO. And to…
Valentines Day Tree of Hearts
How to make a Valentines Day Tree of Hearts About two years ago, talking with my sister about home decor and diy’s she mentioned she had found a very creative lady over on youtube who shared techniques on how to paint with acrylics. The shared techniques were easy to follow, so easy that I would be able to recreate one…
Best-Ever Carrot cake recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting
Best-Ever Carrot cake recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting I bet you have known carrot cake pretty much since you were born. And that is because it has been around for centuries now, there is even a carrot cake recipe dating November 25, 1783. This carrot cake was served to George Washington according to Molly O’Neill on her book New York Cookbook (1992). I grew…
How to make a Cranberry Apple Cake / Recipe
Not into pumpkin? Let’s make Cranberry Apple cake then! I do like pumpkin, but since people start using it to cook and prepare deserts with it right around the end of September, by the time it is Thanksgiving day I am not thrilled to have food or dessert which the ingredient is pumpkin. Does this happen to you too? And the…
Easy Pistachio Cake from scratch
Pistachio? …. pistachio cake? Having a green kind of looking cake when I was a kid, was not the most appealing thing to eat as a dessert. I remember one time my parents took us to buy some ice cream, ya’now.. ice cream and a mile walk to the square plaza were more like a Friday night tradition for us.…