Homemade cake makes every celebration more special! Here you’ll find cakes in all kinds of delicious flavors and sizes for everyone from beginner bakers to more seasoned pros. If you’re looking for a classic layer cake recipe, carrot cake, chocolate cake, and scratch-made strawberry cake are some of the most popular recipes. But you’ll also find recipes for bundt cakes, apple-rum cakes, pound cakes, and many more!
Piistachio-pecan banana bread is full of crunchy toasted pecans and topped with freeze-dried Sicilian pistachios to add a delicious nutty surprise to our all-time favorite classic banana bread recipe. For those of you who have already made this (super moist) banana bread you know that adding nuts could only ever […]
For those of you already familiar with our favorite Italian Easter Colomba recipe, you’ll notice that this version is a little more fantastical. This sweet slow-risen yeasted dough gets filled with homemade candied apricots and strawberries, Belgian white chocolate chips, and a few nonpareil candy sprinkles. I opted to top […]
Sweet summer strawberries are a perfect match when paired with our favorite classic banana bread recipe. For those of you who have already made this easy and super moist banana bread recipe, you know that adding strawberries could only ever be a good thing. This strawberry banana recipe couldn’t be […]
Carrot cake lovers hold on to your hats! This is a seriously tender, moist, and balanced carrot cake made 100% from scratch — perfectly spiced, with the warm toasted crunch of walnuts (or pecans) in delicious harmony with a tangy cream cheese frosting (that has an extra vanilla bean kick). […]
This delicious pumpkin cheesecake recipe is filled with pumpkin purée, cream cheese, pumpkin spice, and vanilla with a middle layer of roasted chestnut graham cracker crust cutting right through the middle. This cheesecake has even garnered affection from someone who claimed they “don’t like pumpkin-anything” (they asked for seconds♡). How to Make […]
This creamy fluffy vanilla bean cheesecake recipe is so delicious and easy anyone can make it! In fact, this is the perfect beginner’s cheesecake recipe. It was a favorite we used for my adult and kid’s cheesecake baking classes in China. Even better, this is a no-water bath-required cheesecake. To make […]
This creamy fluffy vanilla bean Biscoff cheesecake recipe would be great on its own, but since we LOVE Lotus Biscoff everything around here, I created an easy cheesecake recipe that packs in as much caramel Biscoff cookie flavor as possible. This is a no-water-bath-needed cheesecake recipe and it’sa perfect make-ahead-and-freeze […]
Creamy white chocolate vanilla bean filling with a Biscoff Lotus cookie crust gets brûléed to crunchy crackly perfection and served with fruity strawberry coulis in one of our all-time favorite cheesecakes (ever). The secret to this easy cheesecake’s smooth texture and flavor is the addition of Callebaut white chocolate and […]
This salted caramel cheesecake recipe has it all — a super creamy tangy combination of mascarpone cheese and cream cheese flecked with vanilla bean and infused with homemade (white chocolate) salted caramel and baked into an Oreo cookie crust. Without a doubt, this is a restaurant-quality cheesecake. It’s one of […]
Boo! If you’re looking for a Halloween Cheesecake dessert that both kiddos and adults will love, this silky smooth white chocolate caramel cheesecake will do the trick. This fall cheesecake recipe is a treat for the whole family. Ample chocolate Oreo cookie crust is filled with a homemade white chocolate-caramel […]
Cinnamon and apples have always made sense, but adding a little rum, vanilla bean, and a buttery pecan-crunch topping adds a whole new dimension to this apple-licious dessert. This homemade apple cake recipe is bakery-level good and almost as easy as a boxed mix. It’s incredibly moist and full of […]
This is pure brownie dessert heaven. It might even be our favorite brownie recipe of all time. It starts with my Better Than the Best Chocolate Fudgy Brownie batter that’s dotted with creamy Biscoff cookie spread and 70% dark chocolate chunks. Finally, it’s layered inside and topped with a Momofuku […]
This signature Devil’s Food Cupcake recipe is easy to pull together and consistently makes the most tender (super) chocolatey crumb. It looks like it came from a box and is almost as simple to pull together, but is 100% scratch-made and tastes every bit like Grandma used to make. It’s one […]
This homemade sweet artisanal Italian Easter Dove bread is a recipe that needs a little extra time and effort to make. This Italian dessert bread is special because it takes hours to make and develop its beautiful weblike gluten structure. For this authentic Colomba yeast bread recipe, I’ve made it […]
This Devil’s Food cake is G.O.O.D. It’s rich, super chocolatey, has just the right amount of sweetness, and is so moist it’s hard to believe it didn’t come from a box. For those of you already familiar with this Devil’s Food cake post here, you know that the inspiration for […]