Category: Dessert

Chocolate Birthday Cake

Chocolate Birthday Cake

I love capturing friends and family blow out their birthday candles. It’s this once in a year event that captures hope, health and happiness…all in one single blow.  This is why I often bake a cake for them on their birthday…to give them the opportunity to have this moment, (more…)

5-ingredient Banana Oatmeal Muffins

5-ingredient Banana Oatmeal Muffins

This recipe was actually discovered by my teenage daughters.  I guess they felt my banana bread recipe (which often is baked into muffins) wasn’t healthy enough (more…)

East 62nd Street Lemon Cake

East 62nd Street Lemon Cake

The East 62nd Street Lemon Cake is from the famous Queen of Cake, Maida Heatter.  Her famous lemon cake recipe was first published in the New York Times back in the 1970’s and soon thereafter it became insanely popular. (more…)

The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies

The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies

The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe is this one.  I promise!  A journey that started when I was 10-years old with a recipe on the backside of a Nestlé Toll House chocolate morsels package, and countless other chocolate chip cookie recipes I’ve tried thereafter, (more…)

Helen Goh’s Chocolate Cake

Helen Goh’s Chocolate Cake

Helen Goh’s Chocolate Cake comes from the cookbook she co-wrote with Yotam Ottolenghi, Sweet. It’s been given the title ‘World’s Best Chocolate Cake’ by the New York Times and it’s also been proven to be the world’s most easiest cake to bake.  Aside from its (more…)

Torta Caprese

Torta Caprese

The Torta Caprese is an exquisite Italian dessert.  It dates back to the 1920’s and is believed to have originated on the Island of Capri, hence the name. (more…)

Budapest Cake

Budapest Cake

Maida Heatter describes this Budapest Cake as the cake that produces love letters and a variety of proposals and propositions.  Need i say more?? (more…)

Rainbow Fruit Salad

Rainbow Fruit Salad

A Rainbow Fruit Salad never fails to bring sweet smiles and happy vibes.  Nothing fancy…just pure joy. (more…)

Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Cake

Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Cake

Lemons and poppy seeds go really well together in this Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Cake.  With the help of the buttermilk that makes it delicately moist, the zest and (more…)

French Apple Cake

French Apple Cake

When it comes to French baking it’s all about the simplicity in ingredients yet nothing less than sophistication.  That’s why the French Apple Cake not only uses the simplest of ingredients but it also has rum for that slight elegance of taste to each and every delectable bite. (more…)