My husband and I just returned from a wonderful kid-free vacation getaway with some of our very best friends. Several days of sunshine, good restaurants, great scenery, yummy beverages, beautiful company, and as always when we get together with these friends…fun and memorable times. Jan, Rob, Stacy and Bryon…we love you guys and miss…
Category Archives: Cake
Savannah Chocolate Cake with Hot Fudge Sauce
My very best friend is moving out of state on Friday. Ami and I have known each other for 13 years… we met during my Freshman year of college and have been great friends ever since. She has been there for me through a lot and has always been one of the constants in…
One of “Those” Bloggers – Fudgy Pudgy Chocolate Cake Recipe
Fudgy Pudgy Chocolate Cake is a rich and indulgent way to get your chocolate fix! For the past couple of weeks, I have turned into one of “those” bloggers. You know…the bloggers who take the time to update their own blog but do not go and visit all of the blogs of those who make…
Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
What kind of fool has her oven on during the middle of the day when it is hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk outside? You know what? I am that kind of fool. I am the kind of fool that was tempted last week by a Banana Cake photo and article…
Berries n’ Cream Cake
Written for Just Baking on the Well Fed Network I know you all have been there. You are standing in the checkout lane of a grocery store and a magazine photo catches your eye. Maybe it is one with the current celebrity gossip. Maybe you are more of the House and Garden type and spot…
Cravings – Chocolate Wafer Icebox Cake
Crave: to want greatly : to yearn for: to have a strong or inward desire Oh, I know all about cravings. Cravings are getting up in the middle of the night to make scones because you cannot get them out your mind. Cravings are my 13 year old nephew walking one and a half miles…
French Chocolate Cake Recipe with Rum Glaze
What kind of mom am I? I dare to say that I, Kristen…mother of three, am a very selfish mom. My youngest daughter turned one this past Sunday. The weekend before we had a family birthday party for her and my good friend Sara made her a gorgeous individual cake to dig her little…
Strawberry Shortcake with Meyer Lemon Cream
I just thought I would warn you all now. By the end of the summer those of you who read my blog will probably be so sick of seeing and hearing about strawberries. The annual strawberry kick I get on every year has made an early appearance and I have a feeling it is…
The Bundt Cake Movement
Bundt cakes always get a bad rap for being boring. When I think of bundt cakes, I think of little old ladies and their church pot luck suppers. Bundt cakes seem to be all over the place at those events. People seem to like bundt cakes, but they rarely get the ooohhh’s and ahhhhh’s they…
Pack on the Pounds Cake
History shows that the name pound cake originated from the fact that the original pound cake recipes contained one pound each of butter, sugar, flour and eggs. I am not convinced that is the real reason. I think the real meaning behind the name pound cake comes from the fact that you will certainly…
