Cream Cheese Frosting makes the perfect frosting recipe for so many sweet treats. An easy, yet elegant cream cheese frosting recipe.

Cream cheese frosting comes in handy for all sorts of delicious delicacies – likehummingbird cake, red velvet cake, cupcakes, and well… just about anything else I can think of right now. It just makes anything taste better in my book – and no wonder with all that fluffy, creamy deliciousness!

It comes together quickly by creaming together cream cheese and butter that have been softened to room temperature and then slowly incorporating the sugar half a cup at a time. After each cup of sugar has been added, turn the mixer onto the highest speed setting for about 10 seconds to make your cream cheese frosting as light and fluffy as possible. Then, add in your vanilla and give your frosting a final burst of mixing on high speed.

This recipe yields a generous portion of cream cheese frosting – enough to frost a 3-layer cake well. It is also easy to halve the amounts if you do not need that amount.

Desserts frosting with cream cheese frosting do require refrigeration. You’ll want to store a cake or cupcakes, etc in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Unused frosting can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for three to four days, but can not be frozen as it will ruin the consistency of the frosting. To use the frosting, remove it from the refrigerator and incorporated a tablespoon of heavy cream to the frosting with an electric mixer to return it to a spreadable consistency.

Here’s my Cream Cheese Frosting recipe. It’s a classic that everyone loves!

This Malted Chocolate Cake makes a “whopper” chocolate cake recipe perfect for celebrating all sort of occasions – or just because! 

Sam threw me a bit of a curve ball yesterday. For a while now, he’s requested red velvet cake for his birthday. I took it for granted that he’d have the same request this year.

As I was talking to him over breakfast yesterday morning, I mentioned that I would be frosting his cake while he was in classes. Low and behold, that’s when he said, “Good deal. I’m looking forward your chocolate cake.”

Ummm….

Well….

“Great! I’ve got it all planned out for ya!”

Goodness, what a fib!

While technically a red velvet cake falls under the category of a chocolate cake, I knew what he meant.

Thankfully, my chocolate cake couldn’t get much easier to make, so I knew it wouldn’t be a problem to whip it together right quick. The problem was, I wanted to do something just a wee bit different for him for his birthday.

That’s when I realized that we had a few Whoppers left over from Halloween and I knew just what to do with them! Since they are Sam’s absolute favorite candy at the moment, I decided to turn his cake into a Malted Chocolate Cake!

I made a quick trip to the grocery store and grabbed malted milk powder. Now, I want to make sure to explain that there are two types of malted milk powder. Not to get all nerdy on you, but just so that you know the difference if you decide to make this cake, too. There is diastatic malted milk powder and nondiastatic malted milk powder.

Diastatic malted milk powder is primarily used in bread baking as it contains enzymes that help the dough rise and helps to form a crusty bread. Nondiastatic malted milk powder on the other hand does not contain those enzymes and is used mainly for flavoring in milkshakes, drinks and other items – like this cake!

Then, just so everyone knew something was a little different with my cake, I added a few Whoppers for decoration.

Here’s my Malted Chocolate Cake Recipe. I hope you love it as much as we do!

Carrot Cake makes for a flavorful and delicious dessert! Made with grated carrots and other mix-ins, this is my favorite carrot cake recipe of all time! 

I have never really been a fan of carrot cake. Chocolate cake? You betcha! Fluffywhite cake? Yes, please. But carrot cake hasn’t been a favorite. I think it goes back to my childhood of trying a bite of it at a potluck or reunion and then desperately needing a glass of tea or something to help wash it down. Since then whenever it was offered, I shied away from it. Well, that is until I learned that it was one of my husband’s favorite cakes.

How in the world we could have been married for so many years before I knew this piece of information, I’ll never know. But, there it was. And all I knew was, I had to make it for him. 

So, knowing that my Grandmother Verdie had a recipe in her treasure trove of recipes, I dug through until I found it. I knew her’s would be delicious for anyone that enjoyed carrot cake, but I wanted to tweak it just a bit.

The result?

Well, now I’m a carrot cake convert and Bart says this is his favorite carrot cake that he’s ever eaten. I think I’m back in his good graces.

Here’s my Favorite Carrot Cake Recipe. I hope you love it as much as we do!

Strawberry Cake made from scratch! This strawberry cake recipe is perfect for those looking for a homemade fresh strawberry cake.

Strawberry Cake has to be one of my family’s favorite cakes – especially my husband’s. As much as I love my Grandmother Verdie’s Strawberry Cake recipe, I wanted to make one that I made from scratch. I knew the party gave me the perfect opportunity to gauge my family’s reaction to this updated version of my family’s classic recipe.

Quick, easy, delicious and made from just a few simple ingredients, this strawberry cake is definitely a keeper of a recipe.

The strawberry flavor is light, with bites of fresh strawberries throughout.  The cake also has a light pink tint rather than an over the top pink coloring that many strawberry cakes get from the addition of flavored gelatin to the mix.

So, if you are looking for a strawberry cake option that is made from scratch, this is for you! While it is perfect for just about any occasion at my house, it is especially nice for showers, weddings, birthdays, and luncheons.

There were a few people who let me know they were having some issues with the cake recipe previously. So, I headed back into the kitchen to test and retest the recipe determine what the issue could be. Originally, I included the option to use strawberry syrup in the cake recipe, but since others were having issues with the center of the cake not setting, I decided to replace the strawberry syrup with strawberry puree instead. You still get delicious strawberry-ness with the puree, but with the puree you get a much lighter crumb for the cake texture.

Here’s my Strawberry Cake recipe. I hope you love it!

This Ultimate Kale Salad recipe is the kale salad of my dreams! Filled with crunchy vegetables, creamy avocado and topped with a bold dressing, it is glorious!

If there is one thing that I love for a filling lunch, it is salad. And this kale salad has to be top of my list lately!

My sister Wendy came down the other day for lunch and I made them for us. I’d been talking about how much I loved them since the beginning of spring when the spring peas were at their peak in the garden. So, since I’d been telling her at least three times a week about having these kale salads, she finally said she was coming down to try one for herself. She agreed. They were just perfect!

I have to admit something to you. It took me some time before I actually could enjoy kale. I thought it was way too tough to enjoy and lacked a little bit of something for me to actually want to eat it. So, over the years, I’ve learned a few tricks to making kale taste delicious in salads.

For my Ultimate Kale Salad, I love to top with seasonal vegetables that are at their absolute peak, as well as a few other goodies.

I added a bit of fresh spring lettuce mix, okra, roasted radishes, sugar snap peas, cucumbers, a boiled egg, half of an avocado, salt and a generous amount of freshly ground black pepper! While the salad is delicious right by itself without adding a dressing (believe me, I’ve eaten it like this plenty this spring!), I love to add a dressing with punch to the salad. I love to use vinaigrettes like my citrus vinaigrette,balsamic vinaigrette or even my raspberry vinaigrette for a fruity addition. They are all delicious and the vinegar bite is just perfect with it!

Here’s my Ultimate Kale Salad recipe for you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!