Nectarine upside down cake

This upside down cake is simple to make but looks and tastes fabulous. 2-4 nectarines 1/4 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar for the Ca…

My Favorite Carrot Cake "Chatham Carrot Cake"

A number of you have expressed interest in my favorite carrot cake recipe and have emailed me for the recipe in response to an of…

Dutch Apple Tart

I found this Fruit Platz recipe in the Mennonite Treasury and thought I'd adapt it to fit into a tart pan. If you have never …

Banana Coconut Upside Down Cake

Banana Coconut Upside Down Cake Lawsy mercy it has been a while since I've sat down and chatted with you.-- just about three …

Last-Minute Chocolate Cake with Mocha Frosting

So you've been craving chocolate cake or company's coming and you need something delicious and fast.  You look in your pa…

Maraschino Cherry Cake with Fluffy Cherry Frosting

 When I was a girl, I dreamed of this kind of cake, all pink and soft with fluffy pink cloud frosting.  It was the cake that I i…

Date, Banana, Coconut Cake

After my last post where I lamented about all the sugar in the cake I made, I decided to make a cake without refined sugar. This…

Sour Cream Streusel Cake with Cherries

I've been looking for something a little different for breakfast, a take-along for an early family Thanksgiving celebration, …

Old Fashioned Butter Cake

How to start this post?  YUMMMM ...we loved this cake ... we couldn't stay away from it...we ate it for dessert and then we a…

Plum Upside-Down Cake

Plums are in season...and they happen to make the best upside-down cake! This cake is a favorite from my mother's kitchen. …

Strawberry Rhubarb Coffee Cake (?)

Buttery, sugary, buttermilk tender, strawberry rhubarb-y,  jammy-oozy coffee cake.  But is this really a coffee cake?  Is it for…

Strawberry Summer Cake

"Do you want a bite of this?"  I offered  a towering forkful of this strawberry cake to Sweetie-Pi.  "Nah, I don&#…

Spumoni Cake

This fun and delicious cake starts with a box of yellow cake mix, batter divided into three, with special additions added to give…

Sour Cream Coffeecake

A while back a good friend of mine asked me if I had a good blueberry muffin recipe, and I said no, but I'd try and find on …

Tomato Soup Spice Cake

It was one of my father's Vermont cousins who originally introduced us to her tomato soup cake. She brought it as a hostess g…

Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

I think I read on an old Salada tea tag line (remember those?) that the only way to overcome temptation is to give in to it.  I p…

Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake with Mousse Filling and Chocolate Frosting

I've posted this Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake once before, but I am posting it again as I hav…

Pork and Beans Spice Cake

We've had our first official snowfall this season, two inches of snow that is here to stay . It fell softly, pristinely , fl…