Let’s make the easiest coffee ice cream! It’s creamy and scoopable, made with roasty-toasy coffee and a mega amount of crumbled chocolate cookies.  This is the dessert of summer that also sometimes doubles as dinner.

Just here to introduce you to your newest kitchen superpower: ice cream without an ice cream maker. Really, this should have come a lot earlier in the summer considering we’re all basically melted to puddles at this point. 

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A classic American flag cake made with a cream cheese sheet cake and light cream cheese whipped frosting.  This is a perfect 4th of July cake topped with fresh berries and, if you’re feeling particularly Texan, decorated as the Texas flag.

It turns out, the amount of GIANT Texas flags that dot the interstate across Houston are contagious.  The Texas flag is as iconic as my old school pound cake recipe so it only made sense to join the two.

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I flipped through an old vintage cookbook to find one of my favorite birthday cake recipes. A light and tender white cake filled with an easy almond-studded butterscotch caramel, topped with smooth mocha buttercream.  A cake made for a “Distinguished Guest” as Martha Meade suggests is indeed also perfect for a Distinguished Birthday.

Forgotten in my shelves piles of cookbooks was a cookbook from 1934 titled 50 Cakes for 50 Occasions. 

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Let’s celebrate the delicate flavors of honey and chamomile with a heavenly crepe cake! It’s as stunning as it is delicious. This labor of love is layers of thin chamomile crêpes filled with a rich honey and mascarpone cream, topped with a sprinkle of flowers.

Friends, hello! We’ve officially entered May, my birthday month so naturally – I’ve got cake on the brain.

There are no shortage of cake ideas around here.

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Revel in the tangy-sweet goodness of this simple lemon cake recipe made with lemon curd and streusel crumble. This easy single layer cake is bursting with bright lemon flavor, perfect for any occasion (like the upcoming weekend, babes).

There is nothing finer than starting the weekend off with a thick slice of cake for breakfast on Saturday morning.  It’s a signal to our senses that the next few days can be different. 

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This 6-ingredient angel food cake recipe makes for the most tender, light, and downright bouncy cake.  I especially love this cake topped with fresh raspberry swirled, soft whipped cream and a sprinkle of fresh berries.  Angel Food is a classic cake but feels extra special for these early spring days around Easter. Let’s bake, babes!

For all of it’s perceived fuss, Angel Food Cake really is a simple cake.  All we’ll need is six ingredients, an entire carton of eggs, and the confidence to whip eggs to stiff and glossy peaks. 

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Because I think the answer should be this Wilson Family Carrot Cake!

I recently discovered that Carrot Cake is much like Gumbo and Chicken Soup – we all generally like it best the way the best cook in the family makes it.   The Wilson family makes a kitchen sink type carrot cake with everything from raisins to pineapple and shredded coconut – walnuts too because they’re buttery and toasty.

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A King Cake recipe for every year I’ve lived in New Orleans – cinnamon-scented, pecan-filled, with yeast or without, super simple to make or deliciously complex. Whether you want your King Cake sweet or savory, your perfect recipe is here.  I love dancing in the street every Mardi Gras season but Mardi Gras is also a state of mind.  Wherever you find yourself this Carnival season (in the streets of New Orleans with me or not), let there be CAKE.  

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This refined recipe for chocolate Basque cheesecake is SO SIMPLE with the most impressive results.  Find a detailed step-by-step with tips and tricks below or skip right to the recipe and get baking! This cheesecake does not miss.

I’ve always felt like making a cheesecake, at home, from scratch was rather unreasonable.  You mean to tell me I’m supposed to break the bank on dairy products and eggs, pour them all into a leaky bottom pan, cover than pan in foil that rips if a sharp word is spoken, AND THEN place that whole precarious operation in WATER and somehow get that into A HOT OVEN? 

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I’ve been saving this plum cake recipe for just the right time.  I put my finger up to the breeze this morning and we’re here – we’ve reached peak In Between.

In Between is that time between summer and fall when I, for one, am changing out my scented candles from fresh and floral and pie and spice. This is when we as a people wrestle with our love of pumpkin spice everything.

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