Baked Sunday Mornings: Orange Buttermilk Picnic Cake with Chocolate Chips
Happy 4th of July weekend! I wish I could say I was out having a holiday picnic, but I am actually in the midst of moving, so I’m up to my ears in boxes, packing paper, and takeout food! (I’m praying that my ridiculous amount of baking crap fits into my new kitchen…) Fortunately I […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Black Cocoa Bundt Cake with Butter Whiskey Glaze
While I don’t have a lot of warm, fuzzy Dad memories, I need absolutely zero excuses to make an ultra-chocolaty cake, particularly one with black cocoa in it. It’s a day that ends in “-day”? Sounds like a GREAT reason to make cake! I got out of bed today? Let me just grab the flour. This week for Baked […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Rainbow Icebox Cake with Homemade Chocolate Cookies
If you stop to think about it, rainbows are pretty damn amazing. A majestic spectrum of color emerges from a just-right mix of rain and sunlight to brighten the sky– and probably your day. And yet, this splendid arc cannot be captured, tamed, or touched– its ephemeral nature makes it all the more magical. The […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Red Wine Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Glaze
Friends, it’s Memorial Day weekend, and in addition to honoring our fallen servicemen and -women, it means one other, very important thing: the school year is nearly over. If you work in a school setting, you know that students and staff alike can begin to taste the glorious summer days that are nearly within our […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Ultra-Lemony Lemon Bundt Cake with Almond Glaze
So. Many. Lemons. Calling all citrus lovers: this is the Bundt for you if you can’t get enough lemon in your desserts. Baked Occasions’ Ultra-Lemony Lemon Bundt Cake with Almond Glaze is our Baked Sunday Mornings recipe in celebration of Mother’s Day, and as you can see, the title does not mince words about the […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Buttery Pound Cake with Salty Caramel Glaze
But soft, what cake through yonder window smells so tasty? It is Buttery Pound Cake with Salty Caramel Glaze from Baked Occasions— I’m sure Juliet would approve! Pound cake is buttery, dense, rich, and unbeknownst to me until now, best served with a gooey salted caramel lid. The cake is quite good on its own, but ohhhh-so-much-better slathered with caramel. Really, […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Easter Coconut Sheet Cake
Holy coconuts, Batman. I have gotten a hell of a coconut education in the past couple of weeks, thanks in part to this Easter Coconut Sheet Cake from Baked Occasions. Although I am not an Easter celebrator, I do love bunnies (sniffy noses!) and spring, so I was excited for this recipe. We took on this Easter cake for Baked […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Light & Lemony Jelly Roll with Raspberry Cream Filling
Consider the lemon. A humble fruit that cannot be eaten out-of-hand, it often resorts to playing wingman to other flavors in cooking: lemon chicken, lemon hummus, lemon-white wine sauce. In the pastry world however, lemon gets its chance to shine: lemon meringue pie, lemon bars, lemon pound cake, and in this Light & Lemony Jelly Roll with Raspberry […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Blood Orange Tiramisu… & Recipe Testing!
Does there exist a more iconic Italian dessert than tiramisu? The mingling layers of mascarpone cream and espresso-soaked ladyfingers dusted with cocoa powder conjure memories of sipping cappuccino at Italian cafés and digging into my very own petite square of deliciousness. (And no, I’m not partial to sharing.) A good tiramisu has a certain ethereal quality, […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Toffee Coffee Cake Surprise
Sometimes in life, we’re asked to do things we don’t want to do; other times, the requests aren’t so bad. In the category of “HELL YES”: when Baked Occasions tells me to put toffee in a cake, I listen. Toffee Coffee Cake Surprise was one of the recipes that I was very curious about when I first got my eager paws on the […]
