Category : Cake

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...

The last time I pulled this cake out of the oven, the whole kitchen felt different—warmer, fuller, more alive. It was late October, and the...

A few summers ago, I visited a friend’s farmhouse tucked away in the hills of Vermont. The morning air was crisp, the wild blueberries were...

Late last fall, I was flipping through my grandmother’s old handwritten recipe journal—a thick, tattered notebook filled with church potluck hits and handwritten notes in...