Cakes, Pies, and Tarts

Soft and fluffy banana cupcakes capture everything you love about banana bread and then take it over the top with the addition of creamy and smooth peanut butter frosting. Peanut butter plus banana is one of my favorite peanut butter combinations!  You wanna know the problem with bananas and food blogging? It’s a vicious circle. You use the ripe bananas in your recipes, but then need to buy a few more bananas that are pretty for the pictures which then…

This Caramel Apple Dump Cake is the easiest, yet most delicious cake you will bake this fall. With only 4 ingredients and 5 steps it’s completely goof proof.  I don’t know about you, but I get so excited about fall baking. There’s just something so incredibly homey and comforting about baking with my favorite fall flavors like apples, pears, pumpkins and caramel.  Today’s dump cake is the epitome of easy fall baking! This recipe is perfect for making with your…

Simple ingredients, stunning results. You won’t believe how easy this blackberries and cream pie is to make, nor the creamy and decadent pie that you’ll get in return for so little work. This recipe will make it straight to your keeper file the first time you make it! That’s what happened to me.  I picked so many blackberries this year. I’ve been trying out a ton of  fun new blackberry recipes to share with you, but this pie has been…

Rhubarb Ginger Upside Down Cake is pretty, old fashioned, and baked in a cast iron skillet just like my grandma used to do. It’s easy to make and you don’t need any special tools, not even a mixer. The pairing of ginger with rhubarb has an exotic, yet old-fashioned flair to it. This isn’t your run of the mill rhubarb dessert. Rhubarb can sometimes be tricky. You never know how tart your rhubarb might be and this cake is easy…

These Peanut Butter Chocolate Owl Cupcakes are a hoot! A moist and dense peanut butter cupcake is topped with chocolate frosting, peanut butter candies, cookies and peanuts for a deliciously easy and festive fall dessert. We’ve officially had a few cool days here in Missouri and that’s enough to get almost everyone I know excited about fall! My family celebrated the first weekend of 70 degree weather with a bonfire and a weenie roast! If you’re as excited about fall…

Layered Oreo Pie is rich, creamy, and decadent while also being incredibly easy to make from scratch! Make this chocolate no bake pie when you’ve got someone you want to impress or when you’ve got huge craving for chocolate. I love chocolate pudding and I love oreos, but it seems like a lot of times desserts made with these two things are full of convenience items like instant pudding and cool whip. I’m no hater when it comes to convenience…

The deep and rich flavor of molasses brings a whole new life to a simple boxed yellow cake mix in this Molasses Skillet Cake. Topped with crunchy and buttery crumble topping, this moist and dense cake doesn’t need anything special to go alongside it, but a dollop of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream does make an excellent pairing. I wanted to say a mighty fine pairing, but I’m trying to reign myself in from talking too country. You guys…I…

Fun and fruity!  Rainbow Lemon Meringue pie has the fresh sweet citrus flavor of classic lemon meringue with a colorful rainbow surprise hiding inside. I don’t know why, but for years now I have made a rainbow dessert around Easter time. Usually I make rainbow jello, but I haven’t been making that as much since I accidentally caused a steam explosion in my microwave boiling water. Yes, that’s a true story. Once I blew up my microwave by way of…

Blueberry buttermilk pie has a rich and creamy filling studded with juicy blueberries nestled in a flaky crust for a simple to make dessert that tastes so indulgent. Most of us, the only reason we have buttermilk in our fridge is if we’ve bought it for a specific recipe and then we end up with leftover buttermilk that we have to find a use for. That was me last week. Last week I made 3 different varieties of waffles for…

Dark chocolate cupcakes are taken up a notch with the addition of  fresh orange zest and topped with a rich chocolate orange frosting.   We’re officially in midwinter and that means it’s citrus season! This is one part of winter that I love. All our favorite citrus fruits are not only at their prime in juiciness and deliciousness, but are also available at the best prices right now.  I always buy a hefty bunch of oranges with the intentions of eating…