Category: cakes
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Whiskey Love
Sometimes you just want something that is what it says it is. This IS a Whiskey Cake. This is a straightforward recipe that you can put together and get baking in no time. And the reward on your investment is definitely there. You will taste the whiskey in this. Mise en place.* …and voilà! […]
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pumpkin burnt sugar cake with butterscotch pecan filling and chocolate molasses glaze
I need to figure out how to name things without feeling like I have to include every single ingredient in the title. I guess I could just call this the Pumpkin BS Cake with Molasses Glaze. But I guess that wouldn’t really work, would it? I found a recipe for burnt sugar cake in the […]
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The waiting is the hardest part.
This is for a potluck for a co-worker’s wedding I’m attending tonight. I just took it out of the oven and waiting for the pumpkin cheesecake to cool down so I could put it in the fridge for at least 6 hours before the party. I used this recipe. I folded aluminum foil to place around […]
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Almond Lemon Pound Cake
What do I like so much about baking? I think, in making this cake yesterday, I know. It’s going to sound simple, maybe a little corny. It’s about shape. Making shapes. Putting something into a mold of some sort, and then doing something to a substance, like putting it into an oven, or even just […]
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Pear Hazelnut Cake
I actually made this pear hazelnut cake in the spring for someone’s birthday at work. Since I work at a very large place, I doubled the recipe. I’ve found that when you double a recipe for a 10-inch springform pan, it fits into a 14-inch springform pan, almost exactly. So that’s typically what I do when […]
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Golden Beet Brown Butter Cake with Brown Butter Frosting
Do you like beets? Do you really like beets? What is it about beets that you really like? I must confess, I’m not a big beet fan, but I have met a few big beet eaters in my day. Maybe it’s just because it’s the Pacific Northwest, and we like growing our food, and beets […]
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Chocolate Whiskey Bacon Crunch Cake
Over at my workplace, we are always coming up with excuses to have potlucks. This year, we celebrated our 3rd annual International Bacon Day, which is traditionally the Saturday before Labor Day, on Friday. So for this potluck, I wanted to bring in a cake that had different components all using bacon as an ingredient. […]
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