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Cakes & Pies
The Best Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
The Best Strawberry Buttercream Frosting is simply the most delicious icing flavored with fresh strawberries and perfect for cakes or cupcakes! It’s Summertime! Or at least the school calendar says so. The kids are home and we all get to sleep late. Yay! No more homework, quizzes, or tests for two months. If I’m being…
Rustic Honey Peach and Blueberry Galette
Rustic Honey Peach and Blueberry Galette is like a flat pie without the pie plate, made with a flaky crust on a cookie sheet, topped with a peach and blueberry filling, baked and then drizzled with Aunt Sue’s Raw & Unfiltered Honey. Peach and blueberry season is in full swing here in Georgia. Time to…
Honey Lemon Tartlets with Flowers
Honey Lemon Tartlets with Flowers are mini tarts made of a shortbread crust and lemon custard sweetened with Sue Bee honey. Honey Lemon Tartlets It’s almost Memorial day, do you know what you’re baking? How about these darling Honey Lemon Tartlets with Flowers! I love that they’re sweetened with Sue Bee Honey and the fresh…
Boston Cream Pie Birthday Cake
Boston Cream Pie Birthday Cake is a vanilla butter cake with a pastry cream filling and chocolate ganache topping. I made this cake for my sweet friend’s birthday. Her husband requested it as a surprise, then I found out it was her favorite cake that she has for her birthday every year. I was thrilled…
Chocolate Easter Egg Nest Ding Dong Cake
Chocolate Easter Egg Nest Ding Dong Cake is like a giant “ding dong” (those individually wrapped store bought snack cakes) with a cute little homemade chocolate Easter egg nest on top. The chocolate cake recipe comes with two options – it can be gluten free or regular. Your choice! It’s almost Easter, so of course…
Gluten Free Vanilla Cake with Chocolate Buttercream
Gluten Free Vanilla Cake with Chocolate Buttercream is the perfect birthday cake for someone special that can’t have gluten. Did I make this cake for a special occasion? Nope. Did I make this cake because I’ve always wanted to make chocolate buttercream ribbons? Yep! And I wanted to make it gluten free so that my…
Naked Lemon Cake with Fresh Flowers
Naked Lemon Cake with Fresh Flowers is a three-layer, gluten free lemon cake with lemon infused buttercream frosting. The cake is moist and has the perfect amount of lemon flavor. Spring is finally here! Did you think it would never come? Do you feel like it’s been the longest Winter ever? Me too. Flowers are…
Old Fashioned Southern Burned Caramel Cake
Old Fashioned Southern Burned Caramel Cake is is a guest post written by author, Lee St. John. My mother and my long-time next door neighbor’s mother had the same MO (Method of Operation) one early summer morning in the 1950s. Maybe it was because these two women ended up living next door to each other…
Cranberry Orange Almond Pound Cake
Cranberry Orange Almond Pound Cake is an easy recipe for a festive Bundt cake to serve during the holidays! Cranberry Orange Almond Pound Cake! Perfect for the holidays! And it’s super easy to make with Tastefully Simple Absolutely Almond Pound Cake Mix, plus a few added ingredients. Scroll to the bottom of this post for…