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Chocolate Cake Bake Off, Part II

After baking 12 chocolate cakes for the chocolate cake bake off, the last thing I wanted to do was bake more. (Honestly, if you're trying to kick an addiction to chocolate cake, just try baking 12 of ...

Best Chocolate Cake Bake Off

by erika

Chocolate. Cake. What a universal crowd-pleaser. You'd think this would be the easiest of all recipes to get right because who could hate a chocolate cake? But I’ve had a lot of issues with so-called ...

Best Sprinkle Cake Bake Off

by erika 29 Comments

Ooh that Funfetti® cake mix, the taste of nearly universal childhood nostalgia. I was very excited about this bake off and clearly you were too, with the landslide of instagram poll votes that ...

Avocado Toast Cake

by erika 8 Comments

This past weekend, I flew back home to NorCal for my childhood friend's wedding. It was my first time being in a wedding and though I was v concerned about having to do my own hair and make up and ...

Strawberry Momofuku Cake

by erika 2 Comments

On Monday, I caught a death cold (wheezing coughing, extreme fatigue and so much mucus I thought I would never breathe right again) which was probably compounded by staying up until 1 a.m. to finish ...

Baked’s Caramel Apple Cake

by erika 7 Comments

Once again, another roommate's birthday has come and gone and while no one is going to award me prizes for making perfectly leveled cakes, at least everyone said this one tasted good. Halfway (or ...

Family Classic: Wine Cake (from scratch!)

by erika 16 Comments

At the beginning of this year, I had the intention of sharing some of my classic family recipes on a monthly basis. One finished business degree, trip to Australia and Thailand, start of a ...

Momofuku Strawberry Lemon Cake

by erika 6 Comments

I made a LOT of mistakes with this cake, but it still turned out, well, as Momofuku cakes do. Multiple layers of cake, frosting, jam and cookie-like crumbles never turn out that terribly bad. I ...

Momofuku Banana S’mores Cake

by erika

Ughhhhh. When I tell you this is one of the best cakes I've ever made, I'm not exaggerating. It got the stamp of approval from the roommate (though she doesn't love cake, this went into her top 5 ...

Best Vegan Birthday Cake

by erika 28 Comments

“I’m feeling so weird. I have no interest in making a cake.” “WHAT?” Erik’s raised eyebrows were the equivalent shouting in surprise, given his level of exhaustion after days of working on his latest ...

Gooey Chocolate Oat Cake

by erika 57 Comments

When you’re waking up covered in a light sheen of sweat to the deep-voiced man on the radio announcing “it’s already 80 degrees with a high of 99” your desire to turn on the oven turns to negative 20 ...

Buttermilk Cakes with Honey Caramel, an interview + a giveaway!

by erika 71 Comments

If there’s one thing I learned from adding six cookbooks over Christmas to my makeshift cardboard box "bookshelf," it’s that there’s a not-so-fine line between the cookbooks that languish as the ...