Category : Cake

Last Sunday, I decided to take a walk through the neighborhood park. The air smelled faintly of wildflowers and fresh-cut grass, and there was a...

When I was eight, I baked my mom a birthday cake using boxed mix and a whole stick of margarine. It puffed up, collapsed, and...

A few summers back, I stumbled into a small-town farmer’s market while road-tripping through the Pacific Northwest. It was early June, rhubarb season at its...

The rain had started just after breakfast, turning our backyard into a puddled patchwork and canceling every plan my daughter had made for the day....

The week my herb garden got taken over by mint, I accidentally rediscovered my love for lemons. I was making iced tea to use up...

The rain hadn’t let up for hours that Sunday, which meant we had nowhere to be and all the time in the world. My son...

This Cookie Monster Cheesecake came to life during one of those spontaneous kitchen moments with my niece. She’s obsessed with blue everything—blue cupcakes, blue smoothies,...

My kitchen smelled like autumn in the middle of spring the day I made these cupcakes. Not that the calendar minded. I had a leftover...

The scent of this cake pulled me into the kitchen before I even heard the timer. I’d been experimenting with a few cream cheese pound...