This cake is perfect for lemon-lovers: a light, subtle lemon cake paired with a very tart lemon filling. The light and fluffy boiled icing (a.k.a. Seven-Minute Icing) adds just the right amount of ...

Holiday Mahogany Cake. This vintage cake is considered the original chocolate cake, and it's covered in a swirly coating of ...

Note: To sour regular milk, add 1 tablespoon vinegar to 1 cup milk and let stand about 10 minutes. Cake: In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolks. In a glass measuring cup, mix buttermilk (or ...

When I worked at Williams-Sonoma I first heard of a boiled frosting for cake. The manager made lots of jokes about it and with royal wedding cake on our minds, I am wondering about the origin, the ...

To make cake: Position oven racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven, and preheat the oven to 350°F. Prep 2 9-inch cake pans by greasing the bottoms and sides with butter. Cut out 2 parchment ...

I have gotten a lot of requests for recipes in the past, but this is the one cake that I am asked to most often. Its just a good old fashioned chocolate pound cake that is sublime on its own, but when ...

The weather report for Saturday morning reminds me that this would be the perfect day for making boiled white icing for birthday cake. My sister Mimi celebrated her birthday this week, and in another ...

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ALL TOO OFTEN at birthday parties, I encounter dreary sheet cakes coated with white stuff. Technically, it’s icing, although I imagine it coming from some plastic bucket that has a green lid stamped ...

If you're tired of the usual cake options of chocolate or red velvet, why not take a look at a recipe for the similarly delicious mahogany cake?