Cakes / Cupcakes/ Pastries

Blueberry Buckle

Here is the perfect summer recipe to use the seasons delicious blueberries.  This blueberry buckle is super moist and bursting with fresh blueberries, topped with an amazing crunchy crumb topping and a lemon glaze. You really can’t go wrong. I would probably call it a blueberry coffee cake because it […]

Apple Cider Doughnut Muffins

 Here is the apple cider post I promised last week. Apple Cider Doughnut Muffins- I think that may be enough said?  I have been making a plain and a chocolate version of doughnut muffins that my family loves for several years now. So, when I had a cider doughnut at […]

The Best Lemon Topped Blueberry Muffins

These are absolutely amazingly delicious blueberry muffins. Every time I see blueberries on sale my mind goes right to these soft tender muffins. They are not the basic blueberry muffin either- They have a super moist buttermilk muffin base with blueberries , but you also swirl in some fresh sweetened […]

Cinnamon Roll Cake

This cake is a cross between a delicious coffee cake and a cinnamon roll. When eaten warm it actually tastes just like a warm cinnamon roll straight from the oven–only without the hassle of working with a yeast dough or the wait of allowing a dough to rise. This cake […]

Moist Lemon Bundt Cake

I came up with this lemon cake after being inspired by this wonderful recipe for Old Fashioned Hot Milk Cake (and my love for lemon 🙂 ). I have been looking forward to Spring to arrive here in the Northeast and lemon is just one of those flavors that reminds me of spring […]

Amazing Chocolate Frosting

Sorry this post took more than a couple of days since I posted the perfect yellow cupcake recipe…. but our house got hit hard with the stomach bug this week. So, needless to say, I have spent the past several days caring for sick kids (and myself), doing laundry and […]

Perfect Yellow Cupcakes

Yet another conquest completed………. to find a recipe to make a homemade version of a previously store bought item……… Yellow cupcakes, the perfect accompaniment to chocolate frosting. There is just something amazing about a simple yellow cupcake topped with chocolate frosting that can’t be beat.  And here is an awesome […]

Homemade Jello

   I have always loved jello when my digestive system is off- from a stomach bug or whatever.  Of course, I sadly gave this up  when I cut the dyes, artificial flavors  and other nasty ingredients out of our diets. Then, recently, I came down with a serious digestive problem […]

Old Fashioned Hot Milk Cake

Here is a recipe for a deliciously moist old fashioned cake. I came across this recipe a couple of years ago and I am sure glad I did.  With a couple of tweaks, it has been one of my favorite go to quick cakes since.  It is super moist and […]

Cinnamon Gooey Butter Cake

 I don’t know about you but any recipe with the word butter in the title catches my attention. I have always liked gooey butter cakes and cookies but sadly haven’t made them in a while since the recipes that I had utilized boxed mixes.  Since I am trying to avoid […]

Homemade Vanilla Extract

  Do you ever get tired of buying those expensive tiny little bottles of pure vanilla extract? I did. So I did some online searching and discovered just how easy and inexpensive it was to make large amounts of vanilla at home. I haven’t looked back since.       It’s […]

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Puffs

   A chocolate cream puff shell filled with peanut butter pastry cream and topped with chocolate peanut butter ganache. Do I have to say much more? I came up with the idea for these when I was making several chocolate peanut butter deserts for my littlest daughter, who loves that combination. And […]

The Best Chocolate Cake and Cupcake Recipe

    A while ago I began the process of “unprocessing” the food my family eats. We cut out a lot of convenience foods and boxed items. I really had a hard time giving up boxed cake mixes due to both the convenience of them and not having good replacement […]