Cakes & Cupcakes

I have a love-hate relationship with gingerbread. I absolutely love the deep, spicy, molasses flavor, but I aggressively hate making gingerbread men. The process of chilling the dough, rolling it out, cutting out little shapes, …

If you hate making cheesecake, you are going to love this recipe. Traditional New York-style cheesecake is a nightmare for a home baker. You have to make a crust, you have to carefully beat the …

When an Italian food icon like Stanley Tucci attaches his name to a recipe, people pay attention. The internet has been completely obsessed with the “Stanley Tucci Cloud Cake” recently, and for good reason. It …

There are some baking recipes that sound like a complete lie. This is one of them. The first time I saw the instructions for an Italian Love Cake, I thought it was a joke. You …

If you have been following my holiday baking, you already know I am mildly obsessed with ginger and molasses. But there is a very real problem with traditional holiday desserts: they can be overwhelmingly dry. …

There is a very specific, aggressive disappointment that happens when you take a bite of a beautiful holiday cake and realize it tastes like a dry kitchen sponge. For years, I completely avoided making gingerbread …

If you show up to a holiday party with a plate of plain, square brownies, nobody is going to care. They will eat them, sure, but they will completely ignore them to go look at …

I am officially starting a petition to ban fruitcake from Christmas dinner. Nobody actually likes it. We all just pretend it isn’t completely dried out and entirely flavorless out of some weird sense of holiday …

I absolutely despise doing dishes. I love baking, but if I read a recipe that requires me to dirty a stand mixer bowl, three separate measuring bowls for the dry ingredients, a saucepan to melt …

I have never been great at frosting cakes. No matter how much time I spend with an offset spatula, my frosted cakes always end up looking like a toddler made them out of Play-Doh. Because …