May Day Million Dollar Glazed Pound Cake

Glazed Million Dollar Pound Cake
Glazed Million Dollar Pound Cake

This cake is called a Million Dollar pound cake for a reason. It is amazingly rich, moist and buttery tasting. It’s also simple to make with an electric mixer and with very few ingredients, you probably have everything you need to make it right now.

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Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Easter Carrot Cake
Easter Carrot Cake

I don’t know why I wait for Easter to make a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I think it just seems appropriate for the rabbits of Easter to have a carrot cake treat. This is a really rich cake, not something for every day.

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German Chocolate Velvet Cake for a Celebration

German Chocolate Velvet Cake
This German Chocolate Velvet Cake really is the ultimate chocolate cake. It has the velvety texture of Red Velvet cake, deep dark chocolate flavor, mocha frosting, and coconut-pecan filling and topping. Even people who don’t like chocolate cake, or who don’t like coconut love this cake.

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Haunted Halloween Pumpkin Fortress Cake

Haunted Halloween Pumpkin Fortress Cake

This Halloween Pumpkin Fortress Cake is stuffed with cream cheese and has red food coloring.  With decorations, it’s meant to be a “scary” treat for the season. Wafting with pumpkin spice, the cake has an espresso glaze to remind you of a good coffee house cake. Surprisingly, it’s a pretty simple cake to make.

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How to Make Apple Brown Betty – a Winter Favorite

Make apple brown betty
This is probably my favorite winter dessert.  I look forward to the end of hot summer days when I can turn on my oven and make Apple Brown Betty. It’s an old recipe, first published in 1864. I’ve been making it since 2011 when I won an award for it.  I love the fact that it’s very simple to make and with the help of some tools, in the oven in under 10 minutes.

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Chocolate Praline Scones

Chocolate Praline Scones
Sometimes, you wake up in the morning, and you want something really tasty. These Chocolate Praline Scones look like they took a while to make, but they come together in a jiffy. You can have them for breakfast, and if you don’t eat them all, have them for dessert with a little ice cream.

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