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Chocolate Beet Cake with Beet Cream Cheese Frosting

January 24, 2012

Hey Dude (that I’m currently dating), We need to talk. It’s about your mother. Mostly… it’s about how I need to meet your mother. We’ve been carrying on for a while now… and I need to meet the lady that birthed you, clothed you, slapped you upside the head, and made you the awesome man [...]

Strawberry Upside-down Cake with Cardamom

June 12, 2011

I thought upside down was one word. I was wrong. You knew it wasn’t one word. You’re smarter than me. Let’s learn a lesson… because I just learned it, and I want to share it with you. Upside down is two words when you write something like “Oh crap… that pie just landed on the [...]

Lemon Cornmeal Breakfast Cake

February 25, 2011

There are only three reason why I would rip the shirt off my body in public: 1. If a kitten were on fire and I needed to smother him, put him out, cuddle him, give him food, and make him mine forever. 2. If I discovered a bee… a ferocious, man-eating bee, down my shirt. [...]

Lemon and Matcha Marble Pound Cake

September 14, 2010

My friend makes one small mention of Rachel Zoe this morning and here I am, shoulders deep into a Rachel Zoe Project marathon. Shameless. I keep telling myself that I’ll just watch one more episode… one more… then I’ll think of something to write on my blog. Five hours later… here I am, alone in [...]

Poppy Seed Cake with Blueberry Glaze

March 17, 2010

Two days ago my sister was out in Seattle having dinner with a friend. Simple enough, right? She was approached my a friendly faced woman and asked “Are you Joy the Baker’s sister?” My sister burst into confused laughter. They carried on a short, smile filled conversation and went on with their meals… my sister [...]

Avocado Pound Cake

March 2, 2010

t I’d really like to conjure up some useful information for you. That would be nice, right? I could tell you all about avocados. Where they came from. What a lovely shade of green they are. Why they’re so expensive at the grocery store… you know, things like that. But you didn’t come here for [...]

My Favorite Fall Recipes

November 8, 2009

Autumn is settling in. Autumn has settled in, and here I am ready to accept it. I’m also ready to accept the fact that my days in the kitchen are about to dramatically increase (if you can believe that) as my cravings for apple crisp (lovelovelovelovelovelovelove), pumpkin cookies and cranberry treats become harder to [...]

Spiced Apple Cake

October 12, 2009

I sometimes wish that my future self could just pop into my present world just to… you know… say hi, and let me know that everything in the future is going along just swimmingly. That never happens, but maybe I just haven’t given future me enough guidance. With this in mind… here’s a quick letter [...]

How To Make Cake Flour

September 20, 2009

Cake flour. Let’s face facts: I never have cake flour on hand when I need it. Luckily, there’s a super easy way to turn good old all-purpose flour into cake flour, lightening your cake crumb, making it super soft and delicious. Maybe you already know this trick. It’s a good one. Here’s a step [...]

Vegan Chocolate Avocado Cake

July 15, 2009

Ok… first of all, stop looking at me like that. Yea, I can see that crazy look on your face. But it’s me. The same person that brought you amazing Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls and Perfect Lemon Pound Cake. We trust each other. We have an understanding. Just go with me on this. Something about [...]

Root Beer Float Cake

May 18, 2009

Before I made this cake on Sunday afternoon, I sat down with a nice, tall root beer float. Sure, it was 10:30 in the morning. I suppose that technically that means I had a root beer float for breakfast. That’s one of the great thing about being an adult, you can have a float for [...]

Gluten-Free Lemon, Almond and Polenta Cake

March 30, 2009

Please allow me this bright and promising Monday morning to keep it one hundred percent real with you. While this gluten free cake was buttery, nutty, bright with the flavor of lemon and perfectly sweet, the truth is, it ended up all over my floor. Well… ok, bits on the floor, chunks on the counter, [...]

Double Chocolate Devil’s Food with Fresh Raspberries

February 11, 2009

How are you going to share the love the Valentine’s Day? How do you share the love every other day of the year? At the restaurant, this Saturday night’s reservations are already fully booked. We’re going to be packed to the gills with love birds. We’ve got people calling trying to pull the VIP card. [...]

Pink Grapefruit Yogurt Cake

February 7, 2009

Allow me this space to keep it real. Part of growing up (and oh how I want to wrestle that concept) is figuring out how to comfort myself. Man alive… that’s a hard one. We all have our shaky moments, when life flips itself upside down and reminds you that you’re not exactly the boss [...]

Lemon-Drenched Lemon Cake

January 9, 2009

Lemon-Drenched Lemon Cake. For this cake, simple loaf pans just don’t measure up. After one slice of the perfect, absolutely perfect cake, it became clear that when I next bake this cake (tomorrow morning), I’ll need to devise some sort of pillow shaped cake pan. This cake is going to be my new pillow. Forget [...]

Pear Spice Cake with Walnut Praline Topping

December 29, 2008

Kid Table. Can we talk about the Kid Table? The Kid Table was something that I had to endure every holiday from the age of three to um…. present. You know what the Kid Table is, right? The integral family socialization tool. The foundation of society. The folding table and chairs circa 1943 that [...]

Mocha Hazelnut Marble Cake

December 22, 2008

I need to talk to you about the holidays, about the parties, about the dress, and about the cocktails. I need to talk to you about how cake, how the right cake can make it all better. I had the perfect holiday dress all picked out. This dress would get me through thick and thin, [...]

Glazed Lime Cake

December 17, 2008

This cake and I. Ooooh this cake and I. We had a fight, maybe I should call it a misunderstanding. I had expectations for this cake. I needed it to be a certain way to make me happy. Mistakes. I wanted this cake to be dense, but moist, perfectly golden, easy to cut and just [...]

All Purpose Holiday Cake

November 3, 2008

It’s November, and that means that we’ve undeniably entered the holiday season. In my world that means lots of family, lot of parties and eating a ridiculous, almost painful amount of food. Cocktail parties. Tacky Christmas sweater parties. Surprise guests and…. my oh my… is it too early to be this excited? Despite all of [...]

Joy the Baker Classic

September 19, 2008

Let’s turn the clocks back to the beginning of Joy the Baker. This extra dreamy lemon pound cake was one of my very first Joy the Baker posts. I nabbed a friend’s fancy camera and after a 15 minute crash course, started baking and shooting my favorite pound cake recipe. Those were the humble beginnings [...]

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