Here’s a recipe for a moist banana cake, seasoned with cinnamon and nutmeg. It comes with an optional recipe for a coffee-flavored frosting to go on top. What makes this banana cake so moist and delicious is caramelizing the bananas first in a pan. This technique is a great thing to do when your bananas are not totally ripe. It activates the natural sugars in the banana and makes your banana cake delicious and moist. This banana chai cake recipe will become a baking staple in your house!
…rustic cakes + loaves
The Only Almond Pound Cake Recipe You’ll Need
This almond pound cake recipe is a keeper. It’s subtly nutty, very tender, and not too sweet. It has a crispy, almost meringue like top, and a wonderful almond aroma. If you’re a fan of almond desserts, this almond pound cake will be your new favorite tea cake!
…Chocolate Cake with White Marshmallow Frosting Recipe
This is a recipe for a one-layer black and white cake, which is a chocolate cake with white frosting. While you could certainly make this type of cake with a classic buttercream, I think a Swiss meringue buttercream (which is more of a science project) is a great complement to the simplicity of the chocolate cake. Make this black and white cake for any birthday or any celebration coming up!
…Healthy Rose Snacking Cake
This rosewater cake is so easy to make, even non-bakers can make this cake without fail. And, the rose flavoring here could be anything – lemon, orange, grapefruit, berries, vanilla. Anything! I chose cardamom and rosewater because they bring a nice floral, Persian-inspired flavor to this dessert. There’s not very much oil, and you don’t need an electric mixer to make it. Make this healthy snacking cake any time you want an easy elegant dessert.
…Peach and Blueberry Trifle Cake Recipe
Don’t be mad if you end up eating this peach and blueberry trifle recipe for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It’s a healthy-ish, easy dessert that uses beautiful summer produce alongside an airy angel food cake and a greek yogurt-whipped cream filling. This peach and blueberry trifle is to die for!
…Cherry Pudding Cake – A New Favorite
This cherry pudding cake is a mashup between a cake, a spoon bread, and a buckle. It’s tender on the outside, and quite soft in the middle (by design!). It’s also made with fresh cherries – this easy cherry cake comes together quickly and is a great cherry dessert idea. The perfect recipe to keep in your back pocket when cherry season comes around and want to make them even better.
Most of the ingredients you will likely already have around your home, so it is the perfect dessert when you are looking for something simple yet delicious!
…Olive Oil Cake with Fresh Plums
Here’s a recipe for olive oil cake with plums. Why? I love stone fruit and I love baking with olive oil. I had a bunch of plums from my CSA box this week that arrived ripely. By day 3 were about to peace out. This olive oil cake with plums has a tight crumb, and is perfect with a dollop of fresh cream or ice cream. Enjoy this olive oil plum cake in the summertime!
…Lemon Zucchini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
I *love* baking with zucchini – don’t you agree? It makes it feel like what you’re baking has a semblance of health. These healthy lemon zucchini cupcakes are cupcakes for adults – they’re not too sweet, but feel just decadent enough. The cream cheese frosting is really special, too. It also features my foolproof lemon curd recipe — this lemon curd never breaks and always comes out. Try these lemon zucchini cupcakes this summer!
…Moist Cornbread Life-Changing Recipe
This is an incredible moist cornbread recipe; it has a tight crumb so it was not some crumbly waste-of-time BS cornbread. This is truly life-changing cornbread. Trust me when I tell you that this is the most moist cornbread you will ever bake.
…Gluten-Free Olive Oil Loaf Cake with Yogurt Whipped Cream
Here’s a gluten-free olive oil cake made with almond flour, and scented with orange zest. The cake is topped with a Greek yogurt whipped cream and good with any fruit on top! This time I went with the classic strawberry. You could make it as a loaf, as I did below, or in a cake pan.
…Flourless Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
This flourless chocolate olive oil cake is a showstopper. It’s leavened with egg whites so the top cracks and falls a little, which looks so elegant and rustic. This chocolate olive oil cake will impress everyone.
…Peanut Butter-Banana Bread (Vegan, Gluten-Free)
Here is a recipe for banana bread that uses peanut butter to give it a really moist, nutty flavor. It’s also vegan and gluten-free! This peanut butter-banana bread could just as easily be made with almond butter or sunbutter, but I like peanut butter 🙂 This vegan banana bread is so easy to make and is perfect for breakfast or afternoon tea. It’s also super kid-friendly!
…Gluten-Free Orange Mini Cakes
This is a recipe for mini orange-olive oil cake that
Healthy Pumpkin Bundt Cake
Here’s a super Autumnal baking recipe: this pumpkin cake is all the best flavors of September + October in a bite. This is a slightly healthier than average bundt cake. It’s made with pumpkin, maple syrup, and cardamom, and topped with a yogurt-cardamom glaze. It’s my favorite pumpkin cake I’ve ever made, and the cardamom and maple syrup are such fall-y flavors.
…Olive Oil Cake with Frosting and Figs
Here’s a recipe for an olive oil cake topped with frosting and fresh fig. It’s is scented with Grand Marnier. It’s a really sophisticated take on an olive oil cake. And if I do say so myself, has a rather luxurious, smooth texture. It also has a really creamy, tight crumb. You can obviously tell I have a love of making cakes with olive oil from the sheer number of recipes here. But this one is a little different but equally as delicious.
…Upside down rhubarb cake for two
This is a quick recipe for an upside-down rhubarb cake that’s rustic. It’s really incredible tasting if you like the sweet-and-sour vibes of rhubarb. Additionally, it’s not so big, so it’s a great dessert for two people.
…Semolina Cardamom Rose Cake
This semolina rosewater cake is a savory, sophisticated tea cake that is great for tea, breakfast, or dessert alongside some whipped cream. Semolina flour makes the cake’s crumb hearty and earthy, almost like a polenta cake. it would be perfect with a dollop of creme fraiche or whipped cream, and almost certainly perfect for afternoon tea or morning coffee.
…Rustic apple tart
this is a pretty freeform, rustic apple tart recipe that is more art than science. in the fall, come apple season, easy rustic tarts are a quick way to celebrate and use up your apples that you got apple picking. make this apple tart anytime you have a ton of apples!
…Easy Lemon Yogurt Cake
This easy lemon yogurt cake is perfect for breakfast or afternoon tea. it’s tender, the crumb is perfect, and the flavor is bright. another thing this easy lemon yogurt cake recipe does — it utilizes a yogurt cup as a measurement tool so you save dishes. i actually adapted this from a french parenting book – “bringing up bebe.” haha!
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