Tag: spice cake

  • Carrot Cake

    Carrot Cake

    This recipe is a variant, loosely, on the Splendid Spice Cake recipe. With… changes.  For one thing, I reduced the overall sugar just a touch. And I took the liqud back a bit, to allow for the addition of carrots. I customized the spice blend to favor carrot’s innate flavors, which included the addition of…

  • Spice Coffee Cake

    Spice Coffee Cake

    One of the many things I like to do is pamper my First Reader. When we had an unexpected morning, just the two of us, and time to do things, I asked him what he’d like for breakfast. Waffles, pancakes, biscuits? I offered. Coffee cake?  Oh, yes! His eyes lit up. What about the coffee…

  • Splendid Spices

    Splendid Spices

    I had a moment of anxiety recently, when I discovered that my husband’s favorite flavor of cake was getting hard to find in cake mixes. Carrot cake doesn’t equal spice cake, although we do like it, and Butter Pecan isn’t right, either, although it’s good too. Spice cake on Amazon was nearly six dollars a…

  • Cake For Breakfast

    Cake For Breakfast

    Back to school days tomorrow, and no time for special breakfasts. I hadn’t broken out the waffle maker this break, and I kept thinking about it, so today was the last chance for a while. We have this lovely thick bacon to serve alongside. But I didn’t want to just make a regular waffle. During…