Cakes & Cupcakes

How Chocolate Angel Food Cake with Bourbon Caramel Sauce became Brownies with Bourbon Caramel Frosting

If you’ve visited this blog for a bit, you know I live in Denver, Colorado. One mile high. Five thousand two hundred and eighty feet above sea level. Sea level being the place where recipes are written and then folks ‘up in the air’ have to revise for our altitude. I get it; I’ve been [...]

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Ricotta Pound Cake with Blood Orange Filling, Whipped Cream Mascarpone Topping and Candied Blood Orange Slices

I’ve been participating in a group effort called Recipe Swap for several months now. The brainchild of Christianna with Burwell General Store, we are offered a vintage recipe to use for inspiration each month with the only requirement being that we ‘swap’ out at least three ingredients. For the first event I participated in I [...]

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White Chocolate Mascarpone Cheesecake with Salted Caramel and Chocolate Topping

They say it’s your birthday. Well, Happy Birthday to You! Today’s post is part of a birthday surprise for Brandy, a young (oh yes, you are!) blogging friend. I was asked to participate in a Virtual Surprise Party for Brandy’s 30th birthday. You may know her as Nutmeg Nanny (two guesses on that name and [...]

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Ferrero Rocher Milk Chocolate with Hazelnut Cake for New Years

I first made the original version of this cake WAY back in 2009. It was a recipe on the cover of Bon Appetit magazine as a Peppermint Chocolate Cake and it was perfect for a Christmas dessert. As I shared in that post, it was the start of a special relationship with Abby Dodge; a [...]

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Maple Bacon Cornbread Cupcakes with Maple Frosting Garnished with Bacon

Happy Birthday! No, not mine, but it’s the one year anniversary of the Recipe Swap, a group put together by Christianna Burwell. Started as a way to build community and create a challenge for all of us, we are assigned a recipe from an old cookbook that Christianna found at the Tanque Verde Swap Meet. [...]

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Caramel Apple and Walnut Streusel Coffee Cake for #Baketogether

That name is a mouthful isn’t it. And this cake is too. When our fearless leader Abby Dodge, she of Bon Appetit, numerous cookbooks and now #baketogether fame posted that we would be doing coffee cake this month, it seemed destined from the start for me that I would be mixing it up with some [...]

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Upside Down Sweet Cherry Cake

I’m doing a guest post today for my friend Anuradha and her blog Baker Street. We’ve become acquainted on Twitter and I was delighted when she asked me to do something for her blog. I love seeing her work through her baking adventures and I was most impressed with the wealth of information she put [...]

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Strawberry and Lemon Cake with Lemon Glaze for #BakeTogether

This was a good week for baking. The past couple of weekends have seen me on the road to Snowmass and wrapping up the Goaterie challenge I did with La Fuji Mama at the same time so I absolutely craved something simple from my kitchen. No real deadline, no interviews, just bake something with my [...]

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Four Seasons Restaurant Denver. A Business Quickie.

I bet that got your attention…but this is definitely a time to read more… I was invited by Dana Berry, the Director of Public Relations for the Four Seasons Hotel Denver to attend a special lunch in their Edge Restaurant with others in the Denver area that blog about food and are active on Twitter. [...]

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Limoncello Cream Cheese Pound Cake

This is a very short post today; I’ve got so much on my plate to get done for my Monday post (stay tuned for a most unique challenge) and besides…haven’t you ever just made something, enjoyed it and wanted to share but there really wasn’t a story of significance involved. Not the same as writer’s [...]

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Brown Sugar and Chocolate Chip Pound Cake with Maple-Espresso Glaze

This was one of those moments when all I had to do was see the photo and I was hooked. Line and sinker. Well, the name didn’t hurt. I love cakes made with brown sugar, what’s NOT to love about chocolate chips in a pound cake and then…the pièce de résistance. Maple Espresso Glaze. Done [...]

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Espresso-Chocolate Layer Cake with White Chocolate-Mascarpone Frosting

I was honored to have my sweet friend Lora, the Cake Duchess herself, ask me to help her with a post while she is going through some personal stuff. Every now and then I’m reminded of just how real our relationships are in this globally connected world and I’m not just happy to help; I’m [...]

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‘Irish Coffee’ Cake and a Great Cause for Children – St. Baldrick’s Foundation

St Patrick’s Day will be here soon and I’ve got enough Irish in me to start thinking about a celebration. Not a big party but an opportunity to pay homage to a part of my ancestry (My Dad’s parents were German and Swiss; my Mom’s English and Irish). I’ll usually make corned beef for dinner, [...]

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Almond Cake with Boysenberry Jam from Bon Appetit RSVP

This almond cake is like a pound cake with the added bonus of having a heavenly almond flavor. The reader who requested the recipe from Bon Appetit magazine commented that she could not get enough of it. I get that, it’s just a great cake and the jam filling is perfect. Both texture and flavor [...]

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S’mores Cupcakes – Bon Appetit RSVP

I recently made these S’mores Cupcakes when asked to participate in ‘Frosting for the Cause’ – the project of another food blogger to bring bakers together who would agree to bake something for the blog, contribute $25 to a charitable cause and also give the results of their efforts to a group of their choosing. [...]

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