Dried fruit and sliced almonds give this Holiday Fruit Cake amazing flavor and texture. With its warm spices and a delightfully boozy bourbon backdrop, this take on fruit cake will add magic and merriment to your holiday season.
Until my romance-writer friend Rebecca mentioned that she was writing a Christmas story featuring a magical fruit cake, the idea of baking this holiday dessert had never, ever occurred to me….
Sweet, tart raspberries and Framboise blend perfectly with the deep chocolate flavor in this Chocolate Raspberry Cake. Rich chocolate ganache adds a decadent touch to this bundt cake.
Sweet, tart raspberries and rich, dark chocolate are a perfect flavor combination. I’ve been totally hooked on this dynamic duo lately, indulging with frightening regularity in this Raspberry Cream Tart. While I could eat this tart happily any time, I started thinking about other ways to get these two friends together. …
Deep and rich, this Peppermint Chocolate Cake gets a cool, refreshing burst from both peppermint extract and schnapps. Topped with peppermint ganache and crushed candy canes, it’s a breathtaking holiday dessert.
Much to my kids’ dismay, I rarely frequent the candy aisle at the grocery store. I bake too much cake and pie to want to mess around with candy most of the time, but I needed some candy canes to crush as topping for this Chocolate Peppermint Cake the other day….
Glossy, whiskey-laced ganache adds over-the-top decadence to this moist, rich Chocolate Whiskey Cake. Mix this simple recipe in one pot on your stove.
If you love simple baking projects, you’re going to want to grab yourself a bottle of whiskey and some cocoa powder.
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Chock-full of lemon zest and juice with a playful berry swirl, this Lemon-Raspberry Swirl Bundt Cake tastes like sunshine in dessert form.
I spent the last five winters in the damp, dark Pacific Northwest. Every year by January’s end, daydreams about tropical vacations distracted me constantly. …
Kahlua Chocolate Cake delivers rich chocolate flavor with warm Kahlua undertones. Two recipes included — a scratch recipe and a doctored box recipe.
The recipe for the first cake I remember baking, a Kahlua Chocolate Cake, comes from one of my mom’s closest friends. My mom asked for the recipe the very first time she tasted Stephanie’s rich, addictive cake….
Two sour flavors — lemon and rhubarb — create a zingy-sweet combination in this moist, tender cake Lemon Rhubarb Bundt Cake. Top with sweet, delicious candied rhubarb curls.
Fancy cakes, like the one I made recently for my daughter’s birthday, certainly delight, but they require a serious time commitment. They aren’t the sort of cakes you throw together on a weeknight to bring to a friend’s house, especially when your husband is out of town….
I think we got a little overzealous gathering fruit from our recent Apple Raid to Shaw Island. …
