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If you've got a few ripe bananas to use up then you should give this recipe a try. It's moist, easy to make and a nice change from plain ol' banana bread. Each bite of this coffee cake is loaded with cinnamon and chocolatey goodness.
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Tags: banana, chocolate chip, coffee cake, struesel
Baking and cooking with pumpkin makes me happy, so I was eager to try this recipe for Pumpkin & Ginger Pound Cake. Let me tell you, it was everything I hoped it would be: moist, deliciously spiced and a great alternative to pumpkin pie.
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Tags: bundt, cake, fresh ginger, ground ginger, pound cake, pumpkin
Little Guy had a birthday this week and requested chocolate cake as his special treat. Recently I'd run across a recipe for chocolate mayonnaise cake so I decided to give it a go. For me, my favorite part of the whole condiment-in-cake experience was when I was making it. The kids were watching me mixing the ingredients and started laughing when they saw me dumping mayonnaise into the mixing bowl. I'm not talking a giggle here and there but full-on, doubled-over laughter. I found out later that what made it so funny for my oldest child was that he thought his little brother was going to end up with a gross birthday cake. In his brain, mayonnaise goes on sandwiches not in cake. Fortunately, the cake turned out moist and quite tasty…there weren't any complaints.
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Tags: cake, chocolate, mayonnaise
Imagine crossing lemon cupcakes with cheesecake. What do you get? Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Cream. That's right…dense lemon-flavored cupcakes with a surprise dollop of lemon cream cheese filling baked into the middle. It's like 2 for the price of 1. 
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Tags: Baking, cream cheese, Dessert, lemon cream, lemon cupcakes
Pound cake is a perfect summertime dessert. This moist, velvety cake is delicious on its own but even better when served with fresh berries (or peaches or nectarines) and freshly whipped cream. And, it's extremely versatile because you can change it up with different flavors each time you make it (lemon, orange, ginger, almond, poppy seed). Yumm!
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Tags: Dessert, pound cake, sour cream
Everyone needs a good coffee cake recipe in their recipe arsenal. I turn to this Sour Cream Coffee Cake regularly because it's always moist and delicious. Recently I was asked to bake three coffee cakes for a church event. I set aside the whole morning before the event to do my baking, knowing at the time that church that day might be cancelled because of the pre-Christmas snow storm our metro area was receiving. The forecast said more snow through the next few days but I reasoned that if I didn't bake the coffee cakes and the forecasters were wrong, I'd be up until 3:00am doing the baking (y'know, Murphy's Law).
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Tags: Breakfast, coffee cake
Cranberry sauce is a must-have with the traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner. Period. You just can't have turkey and stuffing without a dollop of cranberry sauce somewhere on the plate. With that said, I still can only eat a few tablespoons of this jam-like condiment at a time. It seems that most people would agree judging by the fact that there's always leftover cranberry sauce after the Thanksgiving meal. So what do we do with all the leftover cranberry sauce? We use it in a coffee cake.
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Tags: almond, Baking, bundt, coffee cake, cranberry
I love bundt cakes and I love pears. Combine the two and you've got Pear Spice Cake. Now it's not a show-stopper cake but it is simple, moist and oh so tasty. With this recipe, I usually use Bartlett pears, I omit the raisins, and substitute pecans for the walnuts. I like how the contrast of textures and flavors work together in this cake: the crunch of the nuts against the softness of the pears; the warmth of the spices with the sweetness of the maple glaze. And if I'm feeling sassy I serve it with a dollop of brandied whipped cream. YUMM!
