These Pumpkin Spice Cake Donuts are packed with real pumpkin and warming spices then fried to perfection and glazed with a sweet cinnamon sugar. Pretty much Pumpkin Breakfast Perfection. I was just casually walking home from Staples the other day when {BAM!} I was hit by a massive craving for a pumpkin spice donut. I…
Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake Donuts
These old fashioned chocolate cake donuts are light and perfectly cakey with an explosion of chocolate flavor! The glaze gives them just a little extra sweetness. Perfection. Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake Donuts are my favorite donuts of all time. Of All Time. When Krispy Kreme in Atlanta stopped serving chocolate cake donuts, I stopped going to…
Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cake Donuts
These Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cake Donuts are UNREAL. Unreal. The inside is soft, tender and cakey; and the outside is crispy with a classic sweet glaze. Just like the kind you get at the donut shop! And they weren’t that difficult! They are easier to mix than cake. They spend a little time in…
Carrot Cake Cupcakes {Cream Cheese Frosting}
These are the moistest, most delicious Carrot Cake Cupcakes that I have ever had! They have a little crunch from toasted walnuts and the perfect hint of cinnamon! Topped with an impossibly creamy cream cheese frosting they are irresistible! If you’ve been following along my culinary school journey on The Gram, you probably recall the three pictures…
Pumpkin Pecan Pie Cupcakes {Bourbon Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting}
What did I tell you? Cupcakes & Salads. These cupcakes jumped to the front of the line because if I don’t share them with you, I will positively burst with excitement! I’d like to say these cupcakes are all about the brown sugar toasted pecan crumble because it is heavenly, but that would be doing…
Double Chocolate Lemon Surprise Cupcakes
A rich, moist buttermilk chocolate cake is paired with a silky bittersweet chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream and filled with an easy homemade lemon curd in these fabulously addictive Double Chocolate Lemon Surprise Cupcakes! The Chocolate SMB is creamy and smooth with a delicate chocolate flavor. Unlike the American Buttercream, this frosting isn’t overly sweet – a…
Angel Food Cake with Blueberry Sauce
My husband has been asking for an Angel Food Cake like his mom used to make since we started dating. With excellent intentions I purchased a round tube pan and diligently researched recipes. This good-intentioned tube pan has languished in the back of my kitchen cabinet for 4 years (okay, fine, maybe a smidge over…
Lemon Pound Cake with Fresh Strawberry Icing
Happy 4th of July!!! Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays. I can’t help but reflect on the courage, vision and fortitude it took to make this Country the paragon of freedom and democracy that it is today. As a Daughter of the American Revolution I feel particularly proud to have ancestors who played…
Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Tuesday was my fiancé’s birthday! His birthday dessert request is always yellow cake with chocolate frosting, but this year I decided to make his favorite birthday treat into cupcakes! If you have spent anytime around my fiancé and I in the past year, you are well aware of our cupcake obsession, so it may come…
