Butternut, Olive Oil, & Bittersweet Chocolate Cake
I know it’s mid-December, which means it’s wayyy into Christmas season… but I’m not fully there yet. My Fall baking is always delayed because October is a hellscape of raving mad work hours every year, leaving very little time for apple cakes, pumpkin bread, and other warmly spiced autumnal delights. So I’m rarely ready at […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Blood Orange Olive Oil Bundt Cake
Blood orange season makes me so happy. Those beautiful orange skins blushing with hues of red that give way to dark, sweet-tart citrus flesh… I think it’s such a special fruit. I’m not generally any sort of orange enthusiast, but when it comes to blood oranges, all of a sudden I’m looking for any excuse to […]
Positano Dreamin’: Amalfi Pear & Ricotta Cake
Imagine, if you will, an Italian beach town paradise with colorful buildings, bright fuschia bougainvilleas, and curly iron balconies cascading down the side of a mountain to meet the perfectly aquamarine Mediterranean Sea. Rows upon rows of orange beach umbrellas carpet the sand in-between, and a few small boats bob in the distance. You are sitting in […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Wintermint Cake
Gone are the days that I used to dread making layer cakes. When a layer cake would come up on the Baked Sunday Mornings schedule, I used to feel a mixture of elation, anxiety, and mortal fear; but thankfully the latter two have eroded as my experience with BAKED‘s cakes and frostings has yielded more successes than failures in recent […]
