Cakes and Cupcakes

I know what you’re probably thinking…another chocolate lava cake recipe – do we really need another one? It is an undeniable fact: molten chocolate cakes have been everywhere for decades. You will find hundreds, if not thousands, of version appearing across the blogosphere, tucked into cookbooks and on many...

If you still have a bit of pumpkin purée tucked away in your freezer – or maybe a lonely can hiding in the back of your pantry – I have just the recipe for you: this magical Pumpkin Ricotta Breakfast Bundt. We all know that cake for breakfast is...

This recipe was born of necessity more than anything else. I’m certain everyone has experience with at least one, if not more, instances of the phenomenon termed “shrinkflation” (a portmanteau of “shrink” and “inflation”) impacting a favorite product. This is the practice of reducing the weight, volume or size...

When I was growing up, we didn’t often have Girl Scout Cookies, but when we did, my absolute, uncontested favorites were the Samoas. While there are some new flavors to choose from these days, I’m still a die hard fan of the Samoas (now also known as Caramel DeLites)....

This recipe has a bit of an interesting history. When I first launched Chocoholic Anonymous, the recipe management tool I was using at the time defaulted to allowing registered members of my site to submit their own recipes. I was unaware of this setting and it had not been...

This cake recipe was one of two recipes I used to make my eldest son’s second birthday cake – the second was the Double Chocolate Chip Pound Cake. The two flavors together made up the base of the cake along with a salted toffee Swiss meringue buttercream. The dulce...

This cake recipe, along with the Dulce de Leche Vanilla Bean Pound Cake recipe, was the base of my eldest son’s second birthday cake. That also makes them a couple of the earliest recipes on my site. Pound cakes stand up very well to the weight and engineering requirements...

This is another very early recipe from the first incarnation of this site, and another one that makes good use of extra pumpkin puree. As I’ve been working on restoring recipes to the site, I’ve been taking the opportunity to closely review each one. In that process, I realized...