Cakes & Cupcakes

Baking a bundt cake is usually a terrifying experience. You spend an hour measuring ingredients, you bake it, and then you face the worst ten seconds in all of baking: flipping the pan upside down …

For the longest time, I completely avoided decorating cakes. I would just slap a thin, messy layer of frosting over a cake with a butter knife and call it “rustic.” The truth was, every time …

I always assumed recipes with the word “magic” in the title were just lying to get clicks. Baking is chemistry, not a magic trick. You put a liquid batter into a hot box, and it …

Three bowls. That is the tax on blueberry cheesecake crumb cake, and it is why people skip it until July. One bowl is crumb. One is a small sour-cream cake. One is cream cheese beaten …

This pumpkin bundt cake recipe is pumpkin bread that put on a fancy pan and stopped apologizing. One bowl for the wet, one for the dry, oil instead of a whole stick-creaming workout. The crumb …

Thanksgiving desserts are the reason people pretend they still have room. Turkey was the opening act. Pie, cake, bars, and “just a small one” are the encore. This list of 20+ Thanksgiving desserts is built …

Black Forest cheesecake symphony is the Black Forest cake that went to music school. Chocolate cookie crust. Cocoa-and-melted-chocolate filling that bakes silky. Cherries on top like they paid rent. Whipped cream. Chocolate shavings. Nobody asked …

Chinese sweet black sesame glutinous rice cakes are chewy, nutty, and quietly addictive. Toasted black sesame. Coconut milk. Glutinous rice flour that turns into that bounce people call mochi even when you did not buy …

London Fog cake is the latte in cake form: Earl Grey, vanilla, a little milk-steam energy, no passport required. Soft vanilla crumb that actually tastes like tea, not like someone waved a tea bag over …