Just like my Easy Chocolate Buttercream this recipe is a bit of a cheater. I buy good quality pudding from the refrigerated section of the grocery store and whip this up in about five minutes. It comes together like magic and the result is a fluffy, light, not too sweet vanilla buttercream. This icing will color…
Category: Cake
The Very Best White Cake
I love to look through old cookbooks and magazine clippings of recipes; one of my favorite possessions is the cookbook my Grandma left me. It’s a hardcover notebook with a red cover and inside is a collection of handwritten recipes and clippings from Good Housekeeping or the local newspaper. Some of the recipes are named…
Triple Chocolate Zucchini Loaf
It seems like every week I have a leftover ingredient that I need to use and, inevitably I make a loaf cake. This is not a bad thing, in fact it’s a great thing because it allows me to use ingredients rather than waste them and it gives me a dessert/lunch box item for my…
Easy Chocolate Buttercream
I love good frosting, I could eat it by the bowl full and to be honest… I have. I don’t like icing sugar based frostings because I find them super sweet and gritty. I use a few different types of buttercream depending on what I’m making and how much time I have. My all time…
Devil’s Food Cake
I remember as a kid, going to the grocery store and looking at the bakery display of all the delicious pastries, cookies and beautifully decorated cakes. This was back in the day when bakeries would display styrofoam cake forms that were decorated with royal icing to show the styles available to order for wedding and…
Homemade Caramel Sauce
You cannot buy caramel sauce that tastes like homemade…it can’t be done! First of all, look at the labels of the bottles of caramel sauce, they will not include cream, they will not include butter and some of them will not include real sugar. This is why I want to encourage you to be brave…
Apples & Oats Spice Cake
Growing up in my house was an adventure, my parents deny it now but they were hippies back in the day; I’m talking burn your bra, protest the war kind of hippies. As a toddler in the late 70’s I had a shirt that read “Stop the Vietnam War Now”…the war had been over for…
Lemon Raspberry Loaf
I love to make sweet loaves as a dessert for a few reasons, you can make them in bulk and eat one right away keeping the rest of the loaves in the freezer for surprise guests, you can also dress them up by slicing them into layers horizontally filling them like a layer cake for…
Cracked Pot Kitchen 