Category: cakes

• guava bundt cake

  

  This is a pretty straightforward recipe. Also, if you don’t like the guava seeds and are lucky enough to find guava shells, which are seedless, use that product instead. I kinda like the seeds, so I left one or two small guavas intact before processing them so that there’d be a small amount of seeds […]

  Dave G

  February 19, 2022

  baked goods, baking, bundt cake, cakes, dessert, food blogging, Guava

• chocolate yogurt cake

  

  I may have finally cracked the code! I may have gotten the right balance and proportion of ingredients for chocolate cake in a loaf pan! Finally! I think not adding too much cocoa is key, as well as not adding too much liquid. Too much cocoa may be drying, and too much liquid may end […]

  Dave G

  October 30, 2021

  60% cacao, baked goods, baking, bittersweet chocolate, cakes, chocolate, chocolate cake, dessert, espresso powder, food blogging, olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, snack, snack cakes

  chocolate cake, chocolate cake loaf, chocolate glaze, chocolate loaf cake, snack cake

• mochi carrot cake

  

  For me it’s all about the rice flour substitute. If it was just regular flour, this would be a rather plain carrot cake. I usually like my carrot cake to be very moist, with pineapple chunks, walnuts, maybe even a little rum, and coconut flakes. I’m really glad I added the spices. I wasn’t going […]

  Dave G

  August 1, 2021

  baked goods, baking, cakes, dessert, food blogging, Hawaiian, muffins, snack, snack cakes, sweets

  butter mochi, carrot cake, hawaiian butter mochi cake, mochi cake, mochi carrot cake

• caramel cake

  

  This is a simple and straightforward cake you can make with store bought caramel if you’d like, but the caramel sauce recipe is fairly easy and straightforward too, and once you realize how easy it is to make, you’ll not want to use store bought caramel sauce again. You can also double the recipe and […]

  Dave G

  July 17, 2021

  baked goods, baking, cakes, coffee cake, food blogging, snack, snack cakes

  caramel, caramel cake, caramel sauce

• orange creamsicle magic cake

  

  Greetings!! You may have seen “magic cakes” online. There are a ton of other names for this basic cake recipe, like “smart cake” or “impossible cake”. These are named so because the cake batter separates into different layers, due to the egg whites being whipped up separately and added to the batter right before being […]

  Dave G

  May 7, 2021

  baked goods, baking, cakes, custard, dessert, food blogging, orange, orange cake, orange vanilla cake

  baking, custard, gateau magique, impossible cake, layers, magic cake, orange creamsicle magic cake, orange vanilla cake, pastel inteligente, smart cake, sponge cake, tarta magica

• clementine almond cake

  

  “Oh my darling, oh my darlingOh my darling, ClementineYou were lost and gone foreverDreadful sorrow, Clementine.” The benefit of using clementines instead of oranges is that they seem to have less membrane or pithy parts and are fairly juicy and full of orange flavor. Also they are easier to peel. Make sure you zest them […]

  Dave G

  April 17, 2021

  almond flour, almond meal, almonds, baked goods, baking, cakes, dessert, food blogging, fruit, sweets

  almond cake, clementine cake, clemnentine almond cake, mandarin orange cake

• chocolate raspberry layer cake

  

  Truth be told, the three layer mini cake I made a few weeks ago on my IG was just a practice cake! This is the cake I really wanted to make, I just didn’t have the sardine tins yet! I love the oval shaped aluminum cans sardines are often packed in, but we almost never […]

  Dave G

  April 11, 2021

  baked goods, baking, bittersweet chocolate, cakes, chocolate, chocolate cake, dessert, food blogging, raspberries, chocolate raspberry layer cake, layer cakes,

  baking in oval shaped aluminum cans, chocolate ganache, chocolate raspberry layer cake, no whipping cream chocolate ganache, oval tins, raspberries, sardine cans

• colomba di pasqua 

  

  Happy Easter! I wanted to create something festive and in keeping with the season. Although this usually contains dried fruit like golden raisins or candied peel and is often baked in a paper liner that’s shaped like a dove, I didn’t have any of those things. I did have some Marcona almonds, which I strongly […]

  Dave G

  April 1, 2021

  almond flour, almond meal, almonds, baked goods, baking, bread, bread flour, cakes, coffee cake, dessert, food blogging, Italian, snack, sweet dough, yeast breads

  Colomba de Pasqua, Easter bread, Easter cake, Italian Easter Bread, sweet bread, sweet bread roll, sweet dough

• olive oil turmeric cake

  

  This is a simple straightforward recipe that I tried to needlessly make more complicated a few times, because that’s how I roll! Haha! But in so doing, I learned a few things, so there was value in making a few “test cakes”. They’re all wrapped up and frozen now, waiting to be repurposed. Most likely, […]

  Dave G

  March 22, 2021

  baked goods, baking, cakes, food blogging, olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, semolina, semolina flour, snack, snack cakes

  6-inch springform pan, olive oil cake, semolina cake, small cakes, turmeric cake