Chocolate Orange Cake with Salted Cream Cheese Frosting

I have a confession. The truth is, this chocolate orange cake started out as a red velvet cake. You see, despite my love for red velvet...

Valentine's Day Red Velvet Cake with Marzipan and Ermine Frosting

When I was in the seventh grade, I wrote an impassioned essay about my hatred of Valentine's Day. "Valentine's Day," I ...

a naked red velvet cake with crème fraîche frosting for a blog birthday

Every year when my blog's birthday rolls around, I tend to get a little pensive when I talk about its beginnings. A reflection of thi...

frankenstein cake

Hello from New York City! I got here last Thursday at 6:30AM, bleary from my red eye flight and dehydrated from a slight bout of food p...

the best red velvet cake + five years of blogging

Today is my blog's fifth birthday, and I can hardly believe it. Five freaking years, indeed! And as per tradition, every year my bl...