Apple Pudding Cake

So to continue our apple and cinnamon theme (no pumpkin today) I wanted to re-share one of my favorite fall desserts.   This was one of the first recipes I shared here on the blog back in November of 2007, yes, I have been blogging for three years now. I love apple pudding cake and to [...]

St. Louie Ooey Gooey Cake and a Vintage Baby Shower

Earlier this month I hosted a baby shower for a new mom from church. Every woman who has a baby deserves a party.    The menu included: Fruit salsa and cinnamon chips Pita chips and hummus Sun dried tomato pesto palmiers (recipe coming) Lovely lime cupcakes and today’s recipe St. Louie Ooey Gooey Cake.   For more [...]

Pink Lemonade Cake

For dessert at my mother’s 80th birthday party I served cupcakes.  No big surprise there! We had Perfect Lemon Cupcakes and I used my Best Chocolate Cake recipe to make cupcakes too.  (My mom is still talking about those chocolate cupcakes. She was over for dinner this weekend and mentioned again how good they were!) [...]

Poppyseed Cake

Today’s recipe is from my neighbor Sheri.  We have been neighbors for about 16 years and we have shared a lot of meals together and some great recipes during those 16 years. This is one of my favorite recipes that Sheri has given me. I made this cake for Sunday dinner last week. Warning:  it [...]

Banana Cake

So what do you do when you find yourself with ten pounds of ripe bananas on your counter?  Make banana bread of course. But after a couple of loaves of that and still a lot of ripe bananas I decided I needed to try a banana cake.  My friend Dawn must have been reading my [...]

Buttermilk Cake

Strawberry season is coming and I am getting ready! Right now I have to be content with the strawberries I find in the grocery store that are coming from California but I know that soon I will be able to enjoy those amazing Oregon strawberries! Most peoples go to strawberry dessert recipe is strawberry shortcake [...]

Red Velvet Cake:Ree & Leigh{Anne}

This is the last day of Eat Cake or at least for a while.  I still have so many amazing cake recipes to share with you we will have to do another Eat Cake week soon! To conclude our week of yummy cakes I wanted to share Pioneer Women’s Red Velvet Cake.  You see, Pioneer [...]

Fresh California Orange Cake

Welcome to day four of Eat Cake! Several years ago when my mother was doing some cleaning out, she gave me a little spiral bound cookbook of recipes from a women she had known years ago -Marilyn Martell.  Marilyn was an amazing cook and baker.  Her little cookbook is full of county fair prize winning [...]

Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Curd

For day three of Eat Cake! you need to head on over to Portland Mama. At Portland Mama you will find a recipe for Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Curd. You didn’t think you’d make it through a week of cake recipes without at least one lemon recipe did you?! This is a cake I [...]

Brown Butter Cake

Welcome to Day Two of Eat Cake!  How did you like that amazing Chocolate Cake!? Today’s cake is for you non-chocolate lovers! Does anything taste better than butter?  Just browned butter! One of our favorite ways to have browned butter is with ravioli.  And then there are those Butter Fudge Fingers – chocolate and browned [...]