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February 2, 2022
Funfetti Birthday Bundt Cake
I want the best for you, and that sentiment extends all the way to your birthday cake. Growing up, my favorite birthday cake was a boxed cake mix – Funfetti Cake. For all the homemade baked wonders my family produced there was literally nothing better than that sweet, slightly metallic tasting, rainbow sheet cake. Now that we know better we can do better with this big ol’, rainbow- speckled BUNDT.
This cake is actually a secret weapon passed down from my grandmother.
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February 1, 2022
Pesto Butter Grilled Cheese Sandwiches and my 5 favorite grilled cheese recipes
The solution to those many, many days a week when I stand in front of the open refrigerator hungry and impatient, is always bread and cheese, toasted. It is as reliable and satisfying as it is timeless. We can all agree that a recipe for a “classic” grilled cheese sandwich is simply 2 parts whatever bread you have on hand (it’s ok it that’s a hot dog bun, we’ve all been there), to 1 part whatever cheese you have on hand (feta is difficult but it’s been done).
January 30, 2022
Let It Be Sunday, 357!
Good morning friends!
Welcome to the last Sunday of January. Was that an epically long month or was it Christmas just one blink ago? When I can’t get a handle on time, I click back to a year ago this week in our Sunday posts to check in with myself (to check in with us, really). I went back to Let It Be Sunday 306, dated January 24, 2021 and honestly gosh, it scrambled my brain even more.
January 28, 2022
Lemon Poppy Seed Breakfast Rolls
These Lemon Poppy Seed Rolls are good enough for print but too good to keep from you here on The Internet.
This recipe is one of the most popular recipes in Joy the Baker Magazine Winter 2021 which, as it so happens, is leaving newsstands this weekend. If you meant to snag one and haven’t gotten your mitts on a copy yet – last chance! – grab one online here!
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January 27, 2022
5 Tips For Making The Best Cream Cheese Frosting
It’s time we talk about cream cheese frosting. This most wonderful addition to layer cakes and cupcakes is simple to whip together IF you use the right ingredients at the right temperatures in the right order. Am I making it more complicated than it should be? Ha, no! Here are five tips to making the best cream cheese frosting along with my best cream cheese frosting recipe!
Use this cream cheese frosting on cupcakes or this recipe for The Perfect Carrot Cake.
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January 26, 2022
The Perfect Carrot Cake Recipe
Let me tell you a little secret. When I worked in the bakery department at The Cheesecake Factory (back when the uniform was a sadistic white pants, white shirt and white apron), my favorite thing on the mind bogglingly large menu was the carrot cake. This cake was a behemoth with thick layers of the richest cream cheese frosting and even thicker layers of cake. I would take a slice home more nights a week than I care to admit, and sneak bites on my bus ride home.
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January 23, 2022
Let It Be Sunday, 356!
Hello friends and happy Sunday! Today we have my dear friend Toby with our Sunday links but first a quickie announcement from me!
I’ve collaborated with the good people at Delicacies Jewelry to bring you this sweetie-pie strawberry necklace. Strawberries are my favorite berry, so fun to bake with, and the most beloved fruit of Louisiana (we get two strawberry seasons – it’s such a flex).
January 16, 2022
Let It Be Sunday, 355!
The theme this week? Sunny days.
Hi friends. Welcome to this fine Sunday.
I found myself watching my favorite Boston bank robbery movie (wait, too specific a category?) The Town staring Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner this week. Come for the Boston accents, stay for the bank robbers dressed as old nuns and impossible car chases. Actually, stay for Blake Lively’s performance. Actually stay for Ben Affleck putting in work on the pullup bar.
January 13, 2022
My 12 Best Birthday Cake Recipes
I know January marks the start (rather, restart) of all of our best habits. Luckily, one of my best habits is CAKE. Around here, January has me daydreaming about all the birthday cakes I’d like to make for friends, family, and my very own birthday. There is nothing better than birthday cake – it’s a human right and I’m fully invested in your cake celebrations. We’ve made more than a few birthday cakes around here over the last decade, but here is a collection of my very best birthday cake recipes!
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January 11, 2022
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
I’ve got birthdays on the brain this month because where there is a birthday, there is a party, and there is bound to be an epic cake. That’s my great hope for your birthday celebrations, at least. Cake is casually my life’s work… so, no pressure. I’ve decided that this start to the new year is also a fresh start to new birthday cake inspiration here. We’re starting mellow (and yellow) with a cookie cake recipe that’s as delicious as Dad’s famous (around these parts) chocolate chip cookies.
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