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Easy Vintage Harvest Cake with Carrots, Walnuts, Coconut & Currants

Let’s stir up a rustic holiday dessert cake! This lovely and moist Harvest Cake is the perfect dessert for cold-weather gatherings, bringing warmth and nostalgia to the table. Imagine a classically festive dark cake with a bit of a modern twist on the traditional fruit cake—no candied fruits, just a special old-fashioned homemade cake bursting with flavor. And it is super easy to make with no…

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Boozy Brown Butter Brownies

Boozy Brown Butter Brownies

These are not your grandma’s brownies! Oh. No. The chocolate is dark and the butter is roasted. And we sloshed in some fine Frenchy black raspberry liqueur, chopped nuts and, hello, a double shot of good espresso (the kind that comes with tons of crema floating on top). Boom baby!

You know we’re all about charming vintage cakes around here…but there comes a time when we just might feel the…

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Cozy on up to Grandma's Unique Holiday Heirloom Sweet Swirl Cake

Cozy on up to Grandma's Unique Holiday Heirloom Sweet Swirl Cake made with sweet potato puree, holiday spices and filled with yummy vanilla custard.

Holiday parties are on big time and the pot luck food will be rolling to the table. Now’s the time to attend to your special food offering.

So go big or go home. Right? Actually, let’s go small and wonderful with an old-fashioned pumpkin roll — ‘cept without the pumpkin, or maybe a jelly roll without the jelly or even some awesome holiday cookies but without the cookies. Say what??

We’re subbing…

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Family Style Fluffy Buttermilk Rolls Recipe

Family Style Fluffy Buttermilk Rolls Recipe

These super tender buttermilk dinner rolls are so fun to make and even more fun to serve to your family and guests. The aroma is incredible. And the oohs and ahhs welling up from the table make it all worth while. Secret Ingredients Work Wonders: The secret ingredients in these dinner rolls to make them light and tender — dried buttermilk powder and dried egg whites. The buttermilk powder adds a…

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Grandma's Extraordinary Apple Cake Recipe

Grandma’s Extraordinary Apple Cake Recipe

We’re sharing the old kitchen custom of the super moist chop-and-stir cake. Once your sweets are chopity chopped, you can quickly swirl together a sweet apple cake batter with a big wooden spoon to make an awesome cake for a crowd.  Preferably using a wooden spoon with some history to it. One that’s been serving the family for years. ‘Cause there’s not one electric mixer in sight! Dust it with…

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Heartwarming and Patriotic Maple Syrup Cake Recipe

Heartwarming and Patriotic Maple Syrup Cake Recipe

We don’t need no wussy vanilla extract and there’s no need for cups of white sugar either ’cause we’re going hip-and-cool historic with the flavor AND the sweetness. Yes, indeed, we’re kicking it up with a charming one-hundred-year-old recipe for Maple Syrup Cake made with dark maple syrup and brown sugar. You’ll need 2 cups of good maple syrup (1 cup for the cake and 1 for the frosting) but not…

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Nutty Boozy Election Cake Without Yeast is a Warm Group Hug

Nutty Boozy Election Cake Without Yeast is a Warm Group Hug

We need some love right now, all of us. A big group hug. And we’re thinking we all deserve a comfy-cozy sweet and buttery Election Cake sprinkled through with pecans and a medley of dried fruit soaked in spiced rum.  Okay, admittedly, the liquor in this cake kicks up the chill-out factor. In fact, this little darlin’ can be dolloped with a Boozy Buttercream Frosting before we top off the night…

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We Found Marion's History-Making Pumpkin Spice Cake

We Found Marion’s History-Making Pumpkin Spice Cake

We’re resurrecting a little slice of American cake history with this very vintage homemade pumpkin layer cake recipe slathered with fresh pumpkin butter custard frosting, oh way. So put your avalanche of email on hold, hide your briefcase or your school books from sight and put on an apron (or at least tuck a dish towel in your jeans). It might just awaken something meaningful for you the way…

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Rejuvenating Dr. Chase's Home Hearth Pumpkin Butter Recipe

Rejuvenating Dr. Chase’s Home Hearth Pumpkin Butter Recipe

We’ve been hard at work chasing down Dr. Chase and his story of lumberjacks in the North Woods and their slow simmering pumpkin butter to bring you this mellow pumpkin jam recipe. We tinkered with the original recipe to super simplify it and kick it up a notch for slow-and-easy homemade Pumpkin Spice Butter. It will warm your heart and your home as it slow cooks with spiced apple cider and winter…

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Grandma Margaret's Buttery Coconut Cream Cake Recipe

Grandma Margaret’s Buttery Coconut Cream Cake Recipe

This golden cream of coconut cake, modified over decades in our family from a 1924 recipe, is frosted with vanilla custard frosting and sprinkled with sweetened coconut flakes. It comes to us from our precious Grandma Margaret Her friends called her Maggie, she could ride a horse in a fast gallop without a saddle and she made fabulous desserts like nobody’s business from the time she was a lass…

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Grandma Matson’s Sexy Cinnamon Rolls recipe by bakethiscake.com

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A good yeast, ground cinnamon, butter, nuts and a sweet swirl.