Archive for: ‘Cakes & Cupcakes’
Apr 26
Almond Cream Cheese Pound Cake
The email came from Tricia, but it was similar to many I have received in the last month. How to prepare a favorite Cake Mix Doctor recipe – in this case, the Almond Cream Cheese Pound Cake – with the smaller cake mixes now on store shelves? “Do I need to cut back on [...]
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Apr 06
Last-Minute Coconut Cake
At our house the regal coconut cake is anticipated two times a year – Christmas and Easter. Any other times it makes an appearance means someone who loves coconut cake is coming to dinner or mom must have a photo shoot coming up soon! Seriously, we love coconut cake but bake it far too infrequently. [...]
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Feb 20
Anne’s Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
Cinnamon coffee cakes were something I grew up with as my mother loved to entertain and bake a fresh coffee cake to share with friends. Or she would bake a sour cream coffee cake to have on hand during the holidays. That cake, as I recall, was delicious – but it was so heavy! You [...]
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Dec 13
Scarlet’s Red Velvet Cupcakes
Being a redhead, I seldom wore the color red growing up – lots of green dresses, but I won’t dwell on that here. Now that my hair has softened in color and looks more blond (Mother Nature, I promise!) I bought my first red dress. I had no idea how on-stage you are in red. [...]
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Dec 01
Holiday Pumpkin Cake
I don’t know about you, but I don’t think there are enough hours in the day to be the perfect mom. Coming out of Thanksgiving and looking ahead to Christmas, I greet the holidays with joy and a little trepidation. Thankfully, I have no problem taking a few shortcuts. I doctor up cake mix (you [...]
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Aug 08
Cake Mix Doctor Loves Birthday Cake
I’m back in love with birthdays. I used to count down the days to my birthday, even circling a half-birthday on the calendar. Then I avoided them. (This took place leading up to one of those significant birthdays with a zero on the end.) And then last week I woke up on my birthday and realized it’s a [...]
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Jun 06
Chocolate Praline Cake
When your mom’s the Cake Mix Doctor, you don’t expect pie on your birthday. And usually my kids are pretty predictable with their requests – one wants cookies and cream cake, another caramel cake, but the third likes to be surprised. “Surprise me,” said my soon-to-be-17-year-old daughter a week before her birthday. So I thought [...]
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May 04
Margarita Cake
When someone coined the weather phrase about March – in like a lion and out like a lamb – I think they were envisioning May 2011. Wildfires and drought in Texas, flooding through the Midwest, tornadoes roaring through the South, record-breaking rain up the coast, this May is lion like in its demeanor. And I [...]
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Mar 09
Maple Nut Coffee Cake
My mother always told me imitation was a fine form of flattery. And now I’ve figured out an even finer form – when someone bakes your recipes and then feels comfortable enough with them to change up the ingredients to suit their own tastes. That’s what Betty Minton of Princeton, WV, did after she baked [...]
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Nov 14
Anne’s cake mix is here!
UPDATE: Click here to buy Anne’s mix from QVC.com My children may have spring and summer birthdays, but my sweet new cake mixes were born at the end of October. Like some proud mama, I am thrilled to introduce you to Old-Fashioned Yellow and Deep, Dark Chocolate cake mix, which I’ve been planning, baking, and [...]
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The Cake Mix Doctor Bakes Gluten-Free
Thirty million Americans are gluten-intolerant or have a gluten sensitivity, eliminating it from their diets because gluten—a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley—has been implicated in health issues ranging from respiratory problems and abdominal discomfort to anemia, anxiety, and infertility.
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Anne’s Deep Dark Chocolate Cake Mix
Chocolate cake - warm fudgy layers topped with a creamy frosting - this is the cake I love most of all.
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