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If I Could Only Keep 1 Cake Recipe, It Would Be This One

When it comes to lemon cake, I don’t think anything can beat my grandma’s recipe. She was famous for making the most amazing lemon cake, and everyone in my family basically fought for the last piece! However, somewhere along the line we lost her recipe and we all have been trying to find something that would make up for it.

I doubt my grandmother ever made her lemon cake this way, but this is the tastiest one I’ve tried since starting my search for the perfect cake! It is super flavorful and moist, and it looks so beautiful that you almost don’t want to eat it.

You can drizzle it with mouth-watering glaze or eat it as is (personally, I think I almost prefer it without the glaze), and it’s the perfect companion to your morning coffee or afternoon tea.

I’ve also served this for dessert after a fancy dinner and my guests were crazy about it! They thought I had spent the whole afternoon in the kitchen making this cake – I just didn’t have it in me to tell them it took 10 minutes of prep time…

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Quick Tip: This cake is delightful even without the glaze!

Give Me 5 Minutes And I’ll Give You A Recipe You’ll Never Want To Lose

I love baking cakes, especially layered ones, so I obviously love trying out new frosting recipes on a regular basis. Cream cheese frosting, with all kinds of little tweaks, has been my favorite for years. It’s pretty simple to make and most people love it! But I’m also a big fan of peanut butter (I mean, who isn’t??) so every now and then I return to my search for the best peanut butter frosting ever.

I think this may finally be it! Only five ingredients will give you this mouthwatering frosting that you’re going to want to use everywhere from now on. Cupcakes? You got it! Oatmeal, why not? Chicken noodle casserole? Ok, well maybe not that one – but this frosting is so yummy you’ll probably want to eat it with a spoon.

And that would be totally ok, in case you’re wondering. I’m not going to tell anyone! Heck, I might even make a double batch of this and eat the other one for no reason! As long as my kids don’t find out…

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Quick Tip: Use this frosting for cupcakes or layered cakes.

Do You LOVE Cookies’n’Cream? Me, too

I was looking for something special to make for my daughter’s birthday, and I knew “your ordinary cake” wasn’t going to cut it. She is a picky little princess and there are only so many flavors and dishes she likes. She’s a big fan of cookies and cream ice cream, though, and at first I thought of just serving ice cream instead of a cake.

But I was worried about the weather – her birthday is in the middle of the hottest summer and I didn’t think it would take long until the ice cream turned into a melted mess. Fortunately, I decided to try this recipe and it turned out great!

I still can’t believe I hadn’t thought of making a cookies’n’cream layered cake myself. This was very easy to make, and I didn’t tell my birthday girl about this until I actually brought the cake to the table. She was so excited! She loved the cake and so did everyone else at the party. I will definitely make this cake again!

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Quick Tip: Use any kind of chocolate sandwich cookies for this.

Even The Pickiest Of Taste Buds Will Love This Mouthwatering Cake

My grandmother was an excellent baker. Back when she was a child, times were tough and every girl had to learn basic cooking and baking skills at a very young age. I remember how she told me stories about how they didn’t have much; no special food ingredients, no fancy spices and not even electricity until she got a little older. She continued using simple ingredients through her whole life, but somehow everything she baked still turned out absolutely delightful.

This simple recipe made me think of my grandmother. She used to make a similar sheet cake but unfortunately her recipe has gotten lost over the years. I was so excited to give this one a try!

When it was finally ready and cooled enough to cut into pieces, I grabbed one and almost swallowed it whole. There was something so beautifully familiar about the flavor that it brought a tear to my eye. I have a feeling I’m going to be making this cake very often!

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Quick Tip: This cake is amazing even without the glaze!

My sister and I love to create awesome recipes that involve crescent rolls. We have made so many different kinds from stuffing them with Nutella and bananas (just like our favorite French crepe!) to filling it with marshmallows and chocolate to create a s’mores sandwich, and even just putting a handful of Ghirardelli chocolate chips inside to resemble a French chocolate pastry. I promise you, every single time we do this, we absolutely love it! We love finding new ways to make desserts with crescents because not only are they delicious, but they are so easy, too!

Our latest creation was a cinnamon roll inside a crescent. We wanted cinnamon rolls so badly, but could not go out to get any so we decided to make our own at home. We did not want to spend lots of time creating a recipe that takes to long to make, so instead we popped a can of crescent rolls and then got to work creating the perfect cinnamon roll. We added lots of brown sugar and cinnamon with a tad of butter. Then, after they were baked, we made a glaze with butter and powdered sugar and drizzled it over the crescents. My oh my, they were just wonderful. Truly our best crescent creation to date!

Recipe courtesy of Sprinkle Some Sugar. Image courtesy of Design, Dining + Diapers.

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Quick Tip: Frost these while warm!

About a couple of years ago during the holiday season, Panera Bread debuted a new line of cookies: holiday red velvet crinkle cookies. They were as chocolatey as red velvet can be, filled with lots of white chocolate chips, then crinkled up as they baked and dusted with powdered sugar. They were the perfect combination (and ratios!) of sweet to chocolatey to red for the amazing red velvet! They were quite a hit and we went almost daily to pick up a few of those cookies and bring them home.

Fast forward a year or two and they do not serve them anymore. I guess we were the only faithful customers for those amazing red velvet cookies. So, I decided we had to do something about it. Instead of complaining to Panera Bread, we decided we would make them at home. We realized they were super easy to make with just a couple of other ingredients besides a boxed cake mix and we had great cookies in the end. So, with that great experience, I decided to play around with other flavors. I discovered that chocolate crinkle cookies taste just as great, and look even better than the red velvet.

Photo and recipe courtesy of The Baking Chocola-tess.

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Quick Tip: Serve these with a bowl of strawberries.

Have you ever craved a chocolate and peanut butter recipe so badly that you simply wanted to sit down and cry? Okay, well maybe you haven’t gone to that extreme, but I’ve been known to be a bit dramatic.

Anyhoo, how does a double decker chocolate and peanut butter pan of dessert goodness fare with you? I took one look at this dessert at my sister’s baby shower last Saturday and was in complete sugar addict’s heaven! Seriously folks, this is the Crème de la Crème of chocolatey, peanut buttery delights.

Image layer after sweet layer of smooth chocolate, rich peanut butter, and fluffy whipped topping. I’m totally salivating over here!

Recipe and photo courtesy of 356 Days Of Baking And More.

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