It appears that summer may be skipping the pacific northwest this year. I think our average high has been about 70. This is not a complaint, on the contrary, I’m super happy about it, I’m just telling it like it is. Hopefully it will mean lots and lots of snow for us in the fall… Continue reading Applesauce Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
This is one of those vintage recipes from forever ago that has stood the test of time. I remembered my mother-in-law posting a recipe for it on Facebook a few months back, and saying they used to make this all the time and she loved it, so when I was planning her birthday dinner this month,… Continue reading Pineapple Sunshine Cake
My 35 year old self was recently lured onto SnapChat by my girlfriends who also use it, despite the fact that they are not, in fact, in middle school (although my “Stories” feed from them is full of silliness.) Trying to navigate a new social media outlet gets harder and harder the older I get.… Continue reading Easy Sopapilla Cheesecake
I’ve never attempted a marble cake before, but it has always looked good to me. So when I saw a recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction where she actually made like 2 dozen cakes trying to find the very best marble cake recipe ever I was totally sold and had to try it. Verdict: this recipe is… Continue reading Marble Cake
By a long shot, my most popular post of all time on this blog has been my Cinnamon Roll Cake. It is a quick, 9×13 cake, with all the tastes of a cinnamon roll, but with so much less work. It is the perfect special occasion breakfast, and it is wildly popular, in spite of… Continue reading Apple Cinnamon Roll Cake
I love, love angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream, or by itself. My mom usually asks for it for her birthday, so I get to make at least one a year. It is decadent but low-guilt (if you don’t load it up with too much whipped cream) and one of those things that… Continue reading Ina Garten’s Angel Food Cake
I almost titled this recipe “a chocolate cake so good it may actually kill you” but I didn’t want to be over dramatic. But seriously. All I can say is thank God I didn’t discover this during The Great Cake Binge of 2014. We had friends over for my good friend Leina’s birthday and when I… Continue reading Moist Chocolate Cake
Rumbly in my Tumbly 