Mint and chocolate are combined in this beautiful layer cake inspired by kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery, as well as my latest kitchen refresh with my sponsor, Café Appliances—jump to the recipe. As always all thoughts and opinions are my own, and thank you for supporting the sponsors that keep Hummingbird High […]
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lemon drizzle cake
Lemon drizzle cake is a classic British dessert made with a lemon flavored sponge cake soaked in a generous amount of tangy lemon simple syrup. This post was done in partnership with Stonyfield Organic, whose yogurt makes the cake base extra tangy and flavorful—jump to the recipe. As always, all thoughts and opinions are my […]
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potluck chocolate sheet cake
Potluck chocolate sheet cake is an easy potluck dessert to feed a crowd; made with an incredibly moist and (almost!) one bowl chocolate cake recipe, the cake is then topped off with a tasty chocolate cream cheese frosting that doesn’t melt in warm weather.
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blackberry almond layer cake
Erlend’s birthday was this past weekend, and, gasp, we did not celebrate with cake. In fact, he specifically requested that I *NOT* make cake and make him a cobbler instead. I was aghast, but to be honest with you guys, he’d been making this request for years and I’ve just been ignoring him all this […]
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black and white pound cake
Today’s recipe comes from Happiness is Baking, a new cookbook from famed dessert queen and cookbook author, Maida Heatter. It saddens me to say that Maida passed away at the start of the month after releasing Happiness is Baking (at age 102!!!). She had an illustrious career as a restauranteur, cookbook author, and food writer […]
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old fashioned yellow birthday cake
So I didn’t realize that it was my birthday this weekend (TODAY!) up until literally two days ago. In my head, I thought that we were still at the end of winter/early spring (and NOT the middle of June, ahhhh). A big part of that disorientation comes from working on my book. This past year […]
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