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Easy Banana Nut Bread Recipe

Easy Banana Nut Bread Recipe – This is my go-to banana bread recipe, as it always produces a lightly sweet, very moist and flavorful loaf. Try adding some walnuts and topping it with a stripe of cream cheese frosting! Perfect for Fall – Easy Banana Nut Bread Recipe As I write this, we’ve experienced our first snow of the season, and it’s not even Halloween …

Wicked Good Boston Cream Pie

Wicked Good Boston Cream Pie Recipes

Regular and High-Altitude Recipes Included. When a recipe is practically perfect, I don’t mess with it, and this one is.  The only thing I added is a high-altitude Boston Cream Pie version for my mountain friends.  Otherwise, this is the tried-and-true Wicked Good Boston Cream Pie recipe tested by Cook’s Illustrated (a fine publication, and highly recommended.) Read the Best Cooking Magazine Ever – Cook’s …

Double Chocolate Cupcakes with White Chocolate Buttercream

Double Chocolate Cupcakes

Don’s Double Chocolate Cupcakes with White Chocolate Buttercream Dwaine was talking with a neighbor who mentioned that she was craving some chocolate cupcakes. As luck would have it, Dwaine had managed to snag a bagful of baking chocolate bars at the store in the markdown bin! So I needed to do some research on cupcakes made with baking bars, rather than cocoa. I came up …

Perfect Cake Layers

Swan’s Down High Altitude White Cake Recipe

(Original cake recipe from a tattered magazine page stuck in an old church cookbook.  I finally found the origin online here. )  This is the original Swan’s Down high altitude white cake recipe.  It’s been in use since around 1894, so I’d guess it’s pretty solid.  And Swan’s Down is still around today, which is pretty remarkable as well.  I use their cake flour and …

Homemade Lemon Pound Cake

Homemade Lemon Pound Cake

Here’s an old-fashioned homemade lemon pound cake recipe that is not at all difficult and the results are spectacular!  With all the butter, fluffy egg whites and sweet natural sugar, no one can resist a homemade lemon pound cake. Why “Pound Cake”? “Pound Cake” originated with early American colonists.  The recipe calls for a pound of all the important stuff – butter, flour, eggs and …