Carrot skillet cake
One Easter when I was living in New York City, I hosted a brunch for my friends. Since the traditional dessert in my family had been carrot cake, I decided…
Cake recipes
Sweet potato cheesecake
My uncle’s special Thanksgiving dessert is sweet potato pie. My brother’s special Thanksgiving dessert is pumpkin cheesecake. And since I’m going to see both of them on Thanksgiving, I decided…
Dr Pepper sheet cake
No one can resist a slice of Dr Pepper sheet cake, a tender chocolate cake coated in a fudgy frosting loaded with pecans.
Strawberry skillet cake
When I recently had a craving for something sweet, as I surveyed my kitchen I realized that I was down to my last eggs and had limited amounts of butter….
Sweet potato bread
My family has a running joke. In my first book, I included a recipe for sweet potato muffins, and in my headnote, I mentioned that anytime you’d go into my…
Danish apple cake (Aeblekage)
While looking for apple recipes, I came across a dessert in a September 1966 edition of the Dallas Morning News. It was stated as being a light dish, though I…
Spicy applesauce cake
My great-grandma Blanche loved applesauce cake. In fact, her recipe collection has no less than five versions of this classic snack cake, all of them different. So when I decided…
Apple cake
An abundance of juicy apples and crunchy pecans are gently nestled into a cake both tender and crisp. As one friend remarked, it’s as if you combined apple cake with apple pie.
Lemon bread
When I first moved to New York, about once or twice a year my mom would send me a loaf of lemon bread. It was my favorite thing. The bread…
Pecan date fruitcake
How do you feel about fruitcake? For some, it’s a cherished Christmas tradition but for others it’s more of a joke. We’ve all heard the one about the 20-year-old fruitcake…