Irresistible Peanut Butter Chip Cookies: Soft and chewy peanut butter cookies filled with Reese’s peanut butter chips. Sunday Tradition In our house, Sunday is a day that the kids and I get in the kitchen together. With busy schedules Monday through Saturday, Sunday is the one day we’re home together as a family and can carry on this weekly tradition. I love being in the kitchen with my kids, and I love even more seeing their excitement about being in the kitchen and creating something. More often than not, we’re making cookies together. If your kids are eager to bake with you, I think cookie ..read more

This Cream Cheese Danish Cake is unlike anything you’ve ever had before! Imagine putting the flavors and textures of a cheesecake and a cheese Danish pastry into a cake. The result is this delicious cake with cream cheese cake layers, cream cheese filling and cream cheese frosting. Cream Cheese Danish Cake It might sound like an odd name for a cake, but I truly couldn’t think of a better way to describe the flavor of this cake. After a recent trip to St. George, where Avery and I tried nearly all of the pastries from The Farmstead , I just had to create this cake. What is a Cheese Danish? A ch ..read more

Strawberry Shortcake Cake – tender and light vanilla cake layers with a whipped cream filling, fresh strawberries and strawberry buttercream. My Strawberry Shortcake Cake is one of my most popular cakes and is the perfect dessert to make for Mother’s Day next month. Strawberry Shortcake Cake My Strawberry Shortcake Cake is made up of tender and fluffy vanilla cake layers, filled with homemade whipped cream and fresh strawberries, and then covered it in a strawberry buttercream. This really is the perfect shortcake for the season! I went a little untraditional with the addition of the strawbe ..read more

Inspired by the new Choco Smash Cake at Disneyland California Adventure, my copycat version is filled with brownie, peanut butter filling, vanilla cake, dulce de leche, chocolate crisp pearls, and chocolate buttercream. Table of Contents What is a Choco Smash Cake? Copycat Choco Smash Cake Brownie Layer How to Make Moist Vanilla Cake Layers Chocolate Buttercream Recipe FAQs Choco Smash Cake Recipe What is a Choco Smash Cake? The Choco Smash Cake is the new dessert offered in Disney California Adventure Park at Pym Test Kitchen. Previously, Pym Test Kitchen offered a Choco Smash Candy Bar, bu ..read more

Sugar Free Vanilla Cake – sugar free vanilla cake layers with sugar free Swiss meringue buttercream. Why Sugar Free? This is a recipe that has been frequently requested over the years – a sugar free cake! To be honest, I’ve pushed this request to the back burner for a while because I didn’t want to come across as if I was making a “diet friendly” cake. I whole-heartedly believe in balance and moderation, and that cake, in it’s full fat, full sugar, full carb form, should be part of that balance. However, I realize there are many cake lovers reading this who want to have cake in its truest form ..read more

Soft and chewy and full of flavor, these Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies are my family’s favorite recipe! They’re sure to be yours too! While chocolate chip cookies are my all-time favorite cookie, I do love a good snickerdoodle cookie! “Good” is a crucial part to that statement. A dry, flavorless snickerdoodle is never worth my time, but a soft and chewy snickerdoodle, with a slightly crispy edge, that’s also full of flavor is something dreams are made of! As simple and classic as this cookie is, there’s definitely good versions and not-so-good versions. Why use brown butter? Browning but ..read more

Bringing on the spring vibes with my light and fluffy Lemon Oreo Cake, made with tender lemon Oreo cake layers, lemon Oreo cream cheese filling, and lemon buttercream. Lemon Oreo Cake I’m so excited to share my new Lemon Oreo Cake with you. If you’ve tried my Golden Oreo Cake or even my Cookies and Cream Cake, you are going to love this cake! We’re using the same filling from those cakes with the lemon Oreos. The base of the cake is light and fluffy with a hint of lemon extract and more lemon Oreos. I think you’ll love the texture of the cake with the cookies in it. We’ll top this bright and h ..read more

Chocolate lover’s unite! This dark chocolate cake with rocky road filling and chocolate buttercream is the most delicious Rocky Road Cake that’s perfect for any occasion! Rocky Road Cake Recipe – Updated I’m thrilled to relaunch my Rocky Road Cake Recipe today! I actually made this cake on a whim a YEARS ago. Ryan and I were down in Provo for a BYU basketball game, and per usual, we stopped by Rockwell Ice Cream on our way home. I got my go-to combination of Rockwell Road and S’mores ice cream flavor. I haven’t always been a rocky road fan, but Rockwell uses homemade marshmallow cream, an ..read more

Lemon Blueberry Cake – Lemon cake layers with fresh blueberries, lemon curd, and lemon buttercream. Excited to share with you my Lemon Blueberry Cake recipe. The combination of lemon and blueberry is such a classic duo and is good in so many forms: pancakes, muffins, baked french toast, and of course, cake! Lemon Blueberry Cake This popular flavor combination has been done by many before, but I love how each cake or muffin or pancake recipe is a little different. One of my favorite versions of a Lemon Blueberry Cake is from Sweetapolita. Rosie’s recipe is one of the first cakes I ever made an ..read more

Are you as ready for spring as I am? I’m jumping into spring flavors with my new Lemon Pretzel Cake, made with pretzel cake layers, lemon pretzel crunch filling, lemon curd and lemon buttercream. Lemon Pretzel Cake This flavor combination has been on my list for a while now, thanks to a family food wars night with the kids. The challenge was to make a dipping sauce for homemade pretzels. Westin made a lemon sauce and it was a total winner with the pretzels. Ever since, I’ve been dreaming up ways to use the two flavors together in a cake. Cake Layers For the cake layers, I went with pretzel! Yu ..read more