All-in-One Bowl Cream Cheese Cake and Frosting

A vanilla bundt cake where the cake and frosting is made together in one bowl! Have you ever seen such a crazy thing?

It immediately caught my attention as something different from the norm. A cake I had to make immediately.

The cake is made backwards starting with the frosting and ending with the cake batter. [Read more...]

Japanese Cotton Soft Funfetti Cheesecake

I chose this Japanese Cotton Soft Funfetti Cheesecake for my monthly Baking Partners challenge.

Being a cake I had only heard of in passing, one tucked away in the back of my mind (among 100′s of others) as something to make one day I was happy to be given the chance excuse to make it.

It was the unique name that first caught my attention. It proved to be a cheesecake unlike any traditional American cheesecake I’ve ever known.

Let me count the ways. [Read more...]

Frosted Spice Island Cookies

Sometimes a little spice is called for in the way of a soft, maple-frosted cookie. Even if they are a little on the Christmasy side and the holiday is nowhere in sight. [Read more...]

Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

Sweet cheesecake and blueberries sit atop a buttery cake rimmed with a crunchy almond border. As the cake bakes the cream cheese batter and blueberries slightly sink into the middle and the edges rise up around it making for a very pretty cake. [Read more...]

Chocolate Coconut Loaf Cake

A rich chocolate loaf cake packed with chewy shreds of coconut and topped with a creamy chocolate frosting. A chocolate lover’s heaven.

The chocolate comes from cocoa powder that gives it plenty of deep chocolate flavor. To bring in some more of the coconut flavor there’s also coconut milk in the batter and in the frosting. [Read more...]