Another cake I got excited about and made repeatedly in the last few months was a rosemary olive oil cake with chocolate chips, based on a recipe from Good to the Grain by Kim Boyce. The recipe was shared in a blog post by her editor, and presented with weights by Heidi Swanson at 101cookbooks.com where I first saw it ( Read more... )

I love Smitten Kitchen and I've been making a lot of her recipes lately. First up:

melt in your mouth flourless chocolate cakehttp://smittenkitchen.com/2011/04/heavenly-chocolate-cake-roll/Read more... )

I made black forest cake yesterday and it was really awesome :D ( Read more... )

Well, that was not the most successful recipe following... I totally spilled the vinegar while pouring it, so I hope I got a quantity close enough to accurate ( Read more... )

We had some bananas that went straight from tasting under-ripe to looking over-ripe. As it turns out, while I was mashing them I found that they were at their peak for eating, despite the almost totally browned skins, so Mom and I each at one since two was plenty for the cake ( Read more... )

Craving ginger thins but not feeling like all the work, I decided to look for a recipe for gingerbread cake. This is a deliciously fluffy cake, unfortunately too fluffy for bite sized gingerbread houses. I'll have to try out another recipe for that. Edit: here's the Martha Stewart one the Huang's (who made the gingerbread houses) used. Pretty ( Read more... )

I know this is an odd time to be baking, but I've been a night owl lately, so it's either bake it now, or try to make myself get up on a Saturday morning to do it. I promised to make Steph a cake ( Read more... )