Almond-Scented White Cake (with Raspberries)

raspberry almond cake
It’s finally time for me to post the raspberry-almond cake. For a long time I didn’t give out this recipe. I know that sounds bad, but it’s my favorite and everyone loves it so I wanted it to be special when I made it. Or I would hate to go to [...]

Pumpkin Cake with Caramel-Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Cake with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting
I’ll start off by saying I heart pumpkin! When I saw this recipe in Food and Wine I knew I would be making this for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin cake-caramel-cream cheese -those are like three of my favorite things and to have them in the same recipe, I couldn’t go [...]

Coconut Cake

Coconut Cake
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.
I posted this recipe on Serendipitous Reflections almost two years ago and this weekend Sue Taylor and I were talking recipes. Since this is one of my favorites, we started talking about different coconut cakes. Since it was on my mind, I thought I would transfer it over here.
It’s a Martha [...]

Brown sugar and chocolate chip pound cake with maple-espresso glaze

Brown sugar and chocolate chip pound cake
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.

I was so excited when I found this recipe in this month’s Bon Appetit. I had been look for a fall-ish dessert recipe to take to the mountains for the weekend and as soon as I saw the maple-espresso glaze I knew I had found it.
The [...]

Red Velvet Cupcakes

red velvet cupcakes
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.

Sorry it’s been so long since I updated this blog. No excuses.
I love red velvet cake, but I have never made one myself. I remember seeing Paula Deen making one quite sometime ago, and of course you all know I love her recipes so I thought what the heck. [...]

Orange mini bundt cakes

Orange mini bundt cakes
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.

If you need an individual dessert that feeds a crowd, this is a good one. I made these mini bundt cakes for our New Year’s Eve dessert. They were wonderful. They are a great alternative to something like cupcakes. Everyone feels special to have their own [...]

Gracie’s cake

Gracie’s cake
I made this little cake for Gracie’s birthday, unfortunately she didn’t get to eat it since they didn’t make it to dinner that night. Now as most people know, cake would never go to waste in this house. So TJ, Tish, Vick, Dean, and myself ate the full size cake.
This recipe came from The [...]