Currently baking out of Baked by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito For me, lemon cakes are either great or gross. There doesn’t seem to be much in between. Fortunately, this cake lands firmly on the great side. In fact, this might just be my favorite recipe out of Baked. The cake part of this creation [...]

Currently baking out of Baked by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito I’ve made this recipe four times with four different results. While the cakes tasted okay, none of them were exactly what I was looking for. The first time I made this recipe, the cakes spilled out over the pans and then collapsed, like little [...]

Currently baking out of Baked by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito This was the first recipe I made from Baked, back when. At the time, I had a bunch of generic root beer taking up refrigerator space, so root beer bundt cake it was. Except, it really wasn’t. Root beery, that is. That cake tasted [...]

Currently baking out of Baked by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito Can one have too many pumpkin-chocolate recipes? I don’t think so, especially when there is a half of a can of pumpkin puree sitting the fridge begging to be used. There’s nothing surprising about this recipe. You mix pumpkin puree, chocolate chips, vegetable oil, [...]

Currently baking out of Baked by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito Back in 2008, when this cookbook was published, the New York bakery by the same name was garnering all sorts of accolades. Oprah had declared their brownies “one of her favorite things,” and the owners had recently appeared on the Martha Stewart Show. I [...]

Salty sweets seem to be catching my eye lately. First there were those salty oatmeal cookies and now these dark chocolate cupcakes that are liberally sprinkled with coarse salt before baking and after frosting. The cupcakes were good, but the star of this recipe is the butterscotch icing. Oh my. The recipe comes from a [...]

I tore this recipe out of Cooking Light magazine almost two years ago, and I’m kicking myself for waiting so long to try it. Here’s the recipe from the Cooking Light website. The chocolate cake part is a simple, lower-fat chocolate cake that uses reduced-fat mayo to make it moist. A cup of strong coffee [...]

This cake has been making the rounds in the food blogging world. The recipe comes from thepioneerwoman.com, a website by Ree Drummond, chronicling her life on a ranch. She’s witty, funny and irreverent, and I’m insanely jealous of her kitchen. Anyway, back to the cake. It’s your typical sheet cake, you know, like the ones [...]

Currently baking out of Macrina Bakery & Cafe Cookbook by Leslie Mackie What to do when the baking gods give you a cake that looks like this? You make trifles. You take the lovely, lemon butter cake that showed such promise as a batter but then bombed in the oven and cut it into cubes. [...]

Currently baking out of Macrina Bakery & Cafe Cookbook by Leslie Mackie Here’s another cake where I liked the batter better than I did the baked version. The recipe starts off by combining butter, sugar and lemon zest and beating the heck out of them. Eggs, lemon juice, yogurt and dry ingredients are then added. [...]