Coffee-Chocolate Marble Cake: A Moist Marble Cake Recipe With Oil

Moist Marble Cake Recipe with Oil

This moist marble cake recipe with oil combines some of our favorite flavors – chocolate, vanilla, and coffee into one delicious treat! The chocolate flavor comes from cocoa powder and a little bit of expresso. Marble Cakes and the Eat Dessert First Sisters We first encountered a marble cake while on a family vacation in … Read more

Rolled Chestnut Cake Recipe

Chestnut Cake Recipe

This rolled chestnut cake recipe is the perfect festive winter treat, highlighting the decadent flavor of French Crème de Marrons. Wintry Chestnut Treats When we lived in Paris as teenagers, chestnuts abounded. In the winter, you could buy a paper cone full of roasted chestnuts on street corners to warm your fingers as you walked … Read more

Pistachio Dessert Recipe

Pistachio Dessert Recipe

This pistachio dessert recipe brings a level of sophistication to a dessert category (generally featuring the vibrantly green color of instant pistachio pudding mix and whipped topping in honor of St. Patrick’s day) that can use some help. You’re welcome, world. Pistachio Passion We have had a life-long love affair with pistachio nuts. It all … Read more

Our Family’s Favorite Chocolate Almond Cake

chocolate almond cake

This chocolate almond cake appeared (and continues to appear!) at almost every festive family occasion. We love its fudgy texture and delicate almond flavor, as well as the astonishing speed with which it comes together. The Mother of All Chocolate Cakes For those who haven’t read our origin story, it’s important to know that the … Read more

Pumpkin Cake Recipe With Bourbon Caramel Glaze

pumpkin cake recipe

This pumpkin bundt cake recipe gets slathered with a sticky bourbon glaze and sprinkled with pecans for a gooey, crunchy finish. A Short History of Pumpkin Cake While we think of pumpkins as an American icon, they seem to have originated in Central America some 7,500 years ago. The oldest domesticated pumpkin seed was found … Read more

A Fall Applesauce Cake Recipe

Applesauce Cake Recipe

This applesauce cake recipe is the perfect antidote to your fall doldrums. The days are short and grey, and Christmas festivities are too far away to add cheer. Bake up this quick applesauce cake to feel extra warm and cozy. Christmas in July; National Applesauce Cake Day in June To us, nothing screams fall more … Read more

Apple Crumb Cake Recipe

Apple Crumb Cake

Want to live dangerously and bake a cake simultaneously? Well, this apple crumb cake recipe will allow you to do both. Mickey’s Cake We also call this cake “Mickey’s Cake,” after the mischevious hero of Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen. This is because the cake is best baked the night before you plan to … Read more

Pumpkin Swiss Roll

Pumpkin Swiss Roll

We’re sticking with October’s Halloween theme with a light and fluffy pumpkin swiss roll. Halloween in Southern California Halloween in Southern California is always characterized by unseasonably hot weather. This means that our carved pumpkins tend to melt (and melt is a cute word for mold), our children sweat through their costumes, and we need … Read more