ARIZONA TRAVELER

I had a bin with some Granny Smiths that needed eating up.  So, even though I have posted several apple cake recipes (and loved them all) ...

Who's up for caramel cake?  This is a simple moist yellow cake that becomes worth the calories when drenched in caramel.  I poked a lot ...

I love a thin layer of chocolate cake with chocolate icing. So a cake baked in a jelly roll pan is perfect for that thin layer of sheet ca...

My sweet niece requested Strawberry (of course) Cake for her 12th birthday (yes, it kills me she is now 12). The year before, for her 11th b...

Look at those chunks of apples! Aren't they beautiful? I love it when you see the actual pieces of fruit in a cake. I found this recipe ...

After my sister, Lori, requested Carrot Cake for her birthday I was on the hunt for just the right recipe. Ingredients had to include walnu...

This is really a hearty coffee cake perfect to serve at a brunch or actually, Christmas morning (I will tuck that idea away). We (the royal...

This is the easiest, yummiest, prettiest cake--you've got to make it. It makes 6 servings and there were 5 of us. It was so good I had ...

I found this recipe in the June issue of Gourmet Magazine . It is a lovely, light, summer cake. The raspberries were so good, but I think ...

Isn't it interesting that when lemon is the star of a recipe it seems best suited for summer or maybe even spring? Lemonade, lemon pie, ...

The whole point of German Chocolate Cake is the frosting. The cake is just the excuse to slather on the gorgeous caramel-coconut-pecan fros...

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARIZONA! I think I am officially done with baking cakes from a box--unless I doctor it up via the...

I don't know if you should make this cake. If you have great self-discipline then proceed. But I am telling you it is addictive. It sits...

These sure were a hit. And this is from Cooking Light magazine--can you believe it?! I only made two small changes: instead of toasted pecan...

This recipe comes from Pinch My Salt . I had all the ingredients and wanted the smell of pumpkin in my house for one more day. And I haven...

For a few years now I have had the book, The Cake Doctor , sitting on my kitchen bookcase. Today I finally cracked open the book and baked ...

It's hot! And the call of a tart lemon cake is ringing in my ears. But instead of heating up the kitchen baking a cake I do the next be...