It’s hard to resist pumpkin desserts this time of year. Starting off with Canadian Thanksgiving, followed by Halloween, and American Thanksgiving pumpkin and pumpkin spice goods are everywhere. When looking for a dessert to bring to a dinner party, the temptation to make something pumpkin-y was overwhelming. I caved and surrendered myself to the cliché…
Cakes & Cupcakes, Desserts
Easy Peasy Carrot Cake
Although a cake with cream cheese frosting seems appropriate all year round, carrot cake, with its warm spices seems all the more appropriate as the cooler weather arrives. Most carrot cakes I’ve come across have thick layers of dense, and sometimes dry cake, with a thin almost nonexistent layer of frosting in between them. Not…
Millionaire’s Layer Cake
A couple weeks back I was looking for birthday cake ideas for the hubby’s B-Day. Every year I have uncontrollable urge to surpass the previous year’s cake. Last Year I whipped up a an easy, but delicious chocolate cake, with peanut butter frosting and a layer of peanut butter caramel in the center. A recipe…