Velvety Smooth Cream Cheese Frosting
Cream cheese frosting is a nice accompaniment to such cakes as carrot and zucchini cakes, red velvet cakes, and banana cake, to name a few. In fact, it works well with vanilla and chocolate cakes, too....
View ArticleCream Cheese Pound Cake
March 4th was National Pound Cake Day. What better cake to make for this week’s post than a delicious, satisfying pound cake? Pound cake seems an unusual name for a cake. Does the cake weigh a pound...
View ArticleSmooth, Lush Cream Cheese Frosting (Peanut Butter & Nutella Variations)
Cream cheese frosting, not unlike a lot of American frostings, is made with confectioner’s sugar. Confectioner’s sugar, also knows as powdered sugar and 10x (indicating the finer crystals) usually...
View ArticleLemon Zing Bundt Cake
Having posted a citrus cake, chiffon-style a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to share with you a citrus-y butter cake as well. I have not done a bundt cake, yet, on Leelabean Bakes, so this Lemon Zing...
View ArticleEven Better (!) Cooked Flour Frosting (with flavor variations & Vegan option)
Earlier this year, I posted my Cooked Flour Frosting recipe and it’s become one of my most popular posts, to date. In fact, it’s #1 when you Google search “cooked flour frosting.” (Thanks to you all...
View ArticlePumpkin Cake
Pumpkins are a type of squash that are native to North America. Their flesh, along with their seeds and even flowers, are edible and used in a variety of cooking applications, both sweet and savory....
View ArticlePecan Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting (for Italian Cream Cake)
Cream cheese frosting is flavorful on its own, but this frosting has two additional flavor punches – pecans and coconut. The chopped pecans are toasted. Toasting nuts brings out the flavorful oils...
View ArticleBasic, Creamy Cheesecake
So far on this blog, I have devoted my posts to cakes – pound cakes, chocolate cake, carrot cake. The list goes on. This week I am sharing with you a cake of a much different sort. In fact this is not...
View ArticleMaple Cream Cheese Icing
Atop my delicious banana bread, or even eaten by the spoonful, this maple cream cheese icing is so indulgent, creamy, buttery and decadent. But I am warning you, you won’t be able to eat just one bite…...
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