Quick and Easy Caramel Icing

Quick and Easy Caramel Icing

Most caramel icing recipes I’ve seen call for a candy thermometer and closely watching a pot of melting sugar so that it doesn’t burn. Time consuming and tedious. So here I’m sharing a quick and easy caramel icing recipe that I discovered. I’ve used it to frost plain vanilla or white cakes, so that the […]

Applesauce Cake with Caramel Icing

Applesauce Cake with Caramel Icing

This applesauce cake is studded with walnuts and raisins and topped with an easy caramel icing. It’s a perfect autumn dessert, but Toronto is still cold and snowy and grey, so it still feels like November! The applesauce cake also perfectly showcases my favourite caramel icing. Most caramel icing recipes I’ve seen call for a […]

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Our family likes to have a family dinner on Sundays, and Ryan and I are normally in charge of desserts. A few weeks ago, we made a carrot cake. Ryan and I subscribe to a local CSA (community-supported agriculture) box from Cooper’s Farm. Through the winter we kept getting carrots. Massive carrots! This cake calls […]

Vanilla Rum Buttercream Frosting

Vanilla Rum Buttercream Frosting

I used this cooked rum buttercream frosting flavoured with a bit of vanilla to frost the easy one-bowl chocolate cake that I made for my birthday. This recipe makes enough to frost a 9-inch, 2-layer cake. To frost the cake, I filled the two-layer cake and then gave it a crumb coat with about half of […]

Red Velvet Birthday Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting, Kiku Corner

I have been making my own birthday cakes since I was about 13 years old, and now I like to make birthday cakes for friends and family members too. For Donatello’s birthday, I made this Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Red Velvet Cakes are basically yellow cakes lightly flavoured with cocoa and dyed […]