Key Lime & Lemon Cakes

My great grandmother’s signature dessert was the Lemon Supreme Bundt Cake from Duncan Hines. I don’t remember her making it for special events or parties, but she made it for the family quite often and she’d always let me pour on the glaze. It was probably my introduction to baking! This week I was thinking [...]
Published on February 1, 2013

This cake was inspired by the fact I didn’t have any good chocolate on hand. Frankly, I wanted to make brownies, but duty called in the form of a bunch of lemons and an open jar of curd. This recipe was adapted from one in Fine Cooking and required two 8×2 inch deep cake pans. [...]
Published on October 6, 2011

Lemon Cream Filled Cake
Published on January 18, 2011

When I saw this recipe in Mark Bittman’s NYT column, I knew I’d have to try it immediately. Not only is the cake made in the food processor, which in past experience has yielded a dense, tender, moist and tight crumbed cake, but it uses for almond paste. Looking at the recipe and reading reviews, I [...]
Published on August 24, 2010

My mom dropped by yesterday, and since she’s always open to trying experiments, I made her this lemon cake. Keeping with this week’s theme of baking accidents, I forgot to add the baking soda and had to pull the cake out of the oven and stir it into the hot batter. Despite that, …
Published on July 8, 2010

Today’s cake is a winner, and I mean that literally since it’s won multiple competitions and was created by Melinda Winner, who cooks, bakes and writes a blog about managing arthritis. In fact, some of her recipes include tips on how to complete certain tasks that might be difficult for the arthritic – like holding [...]
Published on May 27, 2009