A yummy chocolate cheesecake in my pressure cooker

A GF lemon pound cake with blueberry compote.

Not actually a cake but I did several fruit cobblers and a chocolate dump cake for our Garden Club sale.

Trisha Yearwood's banana pudding cake! A hit!

My apple pie cake! It's a cake made in a spring form pan.

From scratch, without a boxed mix? It would have to be the chocolate layer cake from the recipe on the Hershey's Cocoa box. Mmmmmm, chocolate.

Chocolate here too, the brownie bar cake. Some of you probably know it as Texas sheet cake but same one.

I used a boxed mix to make an Earthquake cake on Friday. I added my own pecans, coconut, vanilla, cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar and vanilla.

I made cake pops (from a box) for a bake sale and sold every single one! The cake pops, puppy chow, brownies and some bars were the big sellers. I have 8-gallon baggies in my freezer, mainly of cookies, for the next soccer game.

Martha Stewart's Lemon Pound Cake and Hershey's Perfectly chocolate chocolate cake.

No more cake baking for me. Couldn't and shouldn't eat it up. Used to bake many. Look on this link for my story on cake baking .cake baking

I made a carrot cake and cream cheese icing from scratch for DH's birthday every year. It's his favorite.

Sorry, try this. new link

I rarely bake a cake. I can't remember the last one although it was probably the Texas chocolate sheet cake as that's a family favorite. I did make madelaines in January. They are like miniature cakes, no?

I made Texas sheet cake and white Texas sheet cake for 160 last Monday. Tomorrow I'm making a carrot cake for company lunch

Not a cake, but I made individual pavlovas for our dinner with guests on Saturday. I filled the pavlovas with sweetened strawberries with a splash of Gran Marnier, then a dollop of whipped cream on top.

Seniorgal, I love love your writing! So glad to find it again. Cannot wait to catch up on all! Please never stop writing!

German chocolate cake for a dinner party

Karodopita

My sister has been recuperating slowly from a hip replacement being replaced, and so I commented to her that I had fallen for a recent discovery--home made scratch pound cake. She has a sweet tooth like me, but had never had one. So I made her both kinds I like, one with cream cheese in the batter. She loves it too. So I baked her a pound cake and took it with me when I visited her last week. She slices it and freezes them and takes out one slice at a time for a nice afternoon treat. I feel like I am the local drug pusher! The cake I baked recently is Trisha Yerwood's Cold Oven Pound Cake, and it is delicious.

COLD OVEN
POUND CAKE

2 sticks of butter (1/2 pound of butter), room temperature
3 c sugar
6 eggs, room temperature
3 c flour, sifted
1 c whipping cream, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla

DO NOT
PRE HEAT THE OVEN.

Cream
butter and sugar very well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until just
incorporated into batter. Do not over beat. Add flour alternately with the
whipping cream, starting and ending with the flour. Do not over beat. Add
vanilla.

Grease
and flour a tube pan. Pour batter into pan and smooth it.

Put in
cold oven. Close the door and set the oven to bake at 325 for 1 hour and 15
minutes. Use a cake tester to test for doneness.

Cool in pan 20 minutes and turn out onto a rack to
cool.

(Edited to align margins of ingredients)

Maybe a decade or more ago. The last time I cooked cupcake / muffins was October 2014 for a bake sale. They turned out great, but personally, I'm not a sweet tooth. I save my baking efforts for bake sales, and serve guests quality ice cream.

My last from scratch cake would have been the family's much loved Tea Cake. Baked in a bundt pan, no frosting to add, just plain great cake that doesn't need a fork for eating it.....or even a plate if you like. My daughter's motto on cakes is, "a Tea Cake in the freezer and one on the table is as good as money in the bank". When I was more able to do it, I often made 2 Tea Cakes at a time, one to eat, one to freeze. She now does it that way too.

Half box, half from scratch? Maraschino cherry cake.

We're gluten-free so I make all my cakes (and other baked goods and breads) from scratch. Last week it was a "Gluten-Free Banana Cake" (with walnuts and currents). This morning I made "Baked Crushed Pineapple" which is a cake/bar type recipe that reminds you of pineapple upside-down cake :-).

Apple cake. I have a great recipe, and it's a hit.

The cranberry pie that became my profile picture here. It's called a cranberry pie, but it's more cake than pie.

Well if we're going there - half mix, half scratch - then it was my favorite, pineapple upside down cake with a moist yellow box cake mix, baked in the oven in an iron skillet.

igmd_gaz...What is a tea cake? Share a recipe?

Grainlady... Pineapple Upside Down cake recipe?

Half mix, half scratch here too - Fresh Orange Cake.

Man, I would love to see recipes for all these goodies. Anyone willing to share? This is my carrot cake w/cream cheese icing.....

2 C. white sugar 1/2 C. oil 4 eggs 2 t. cinnamon 2 C. flour 2 t. baking soda 2 t. baking powder 1/2 t. salt 2-3 C shredded carrots 1 C. nuts, chopped (optional, I use pecans)

Combine first 8 ingredients, mix well. Fold in carrots and nuts last. Bake at 360 for 60 min. in a 9x13 pan.

Icing

16 oz. cream cheese, softened 1 1/4 C. 10X sugar 1 t. vanilla.

Ran across this recipe last fall. Have made it at least half a dozen times. Husband is obsessed with this cake. I've switched out pears and apples and pecans and walnuts. It's all good. Frosting is way to sweet for me, but he loves it.

Potluck German Apple Cake

Ingredients

3 large eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 cups chopped peeled tart apples
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

FROSTING:

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
2 teaspoons butter, softened
2 cups confectioners' sugar

Directions

1. In a large bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla. Combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt; add to egg mixture and mix well. Fold in apples and nuts. Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Bake at 350̊ for 55-60 minutes (check at 45 minutes) or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
2. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter. Add confectioners' sugar, beating until smooth. Spread over cake. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 12-16 servings.

BAKED CRUSHED PINEAPPLE

[Grainlady note: This is a recipe my mother made many years ago because she had celiac disease, and I use it now that I have gluten-intolerance. It's a bit cryptic, as many older recipes are, but it's a nice gluten-free treat if you are hungry for pineapple upside-down cake.]

3/4 c. sugar (I usually use 1/2 c. coconut palm sugar)

1 t. cinnamon

"dash" nutmeg and cloves

1/4 c. cornstarch

2 eggs, lightly beaten

20-oz. can crushed pineapple, DRAINED

2 T. melted butter

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan. In a mixing bowl combine sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and cornstarch. Stir in drained pineapple, eggs, and butter. Mix completely. Pour into pan. Top with marshmallows, if desired [Grainlady note: I've never "desired".] Bake 20-25 minutes until set and lightly brown.

FRESH ORANGE CAKE

1 box yellow cake mix with pudding

3 eggs

1/3 c. oil

1 t. orange flavoring

1 c. fresh orange juice

Mix ingredients for cake and bake in greased and floured pans according to cake mix package instructions. Let cool before frosting.

Frosting:

1 stick butter, softened

1 (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened

1 box confectioner's sugar

1 t. orange flavoring

2 T. grated orange zest

Blend frosting ingredients together and spread between layers and on top of cake. Garnish with fresh orange slices if desired.

My mystical black forest cake. (eggless sheet cake made with extra dark cocoa).

Its the darkest chocolate cake I have ever made. Covered with homemade Bing Cherry sauce and fresh whipped cream. It has a habit of disappearing quickly.

Pink_warm_mama, The Tea Cake recipe came from a recipe book titled "Live High on Low Fat" by Sylvia Rosenthal that I bought in 1983 when my husband had his first heart bypass surgery. The original recipe calls for skim buttermilk. I sour skim milk with vinegar and like the texture of the cake using the soured skim milk better. Don't know why Miz Rosenthal called it Tea cake... it goes good with coffee too!

I always bake from scratch. Pineapple Upside Down cake. My husband's favorite.

like sr gal, our baking day are over...but before my mother passed she would make all during the year pumpkin pound cakes...and of course would add probably twice the amount walnuts..lol...

Whacky cake...maple flavored!

Making this Thursday, as a thank you to a friend!

Chocolate sour cream cake

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons baking cocoa
1
teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
1 egg

Instructions
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat an 8-inch square
baking dish with cooking spray.
2.In a large bowl, combine all ingredients;
beat until smooth. Pour batter into baking dish.
3.Bake 25 to 30 minutes, or
until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool, then cut
into squares.

About the only cake I make from scratch, or at all, is the hot Milk Cake from Pixiestix,, of the KT.

I do fruit cakes,bundt cakes, some cupcakes, pound cakes,some cakelets and ethnic/regional cakes from scratch. However when I do a decorated cake or a cake for parties I use a boxed mix. It's more consistent and the truth is more people prefer them from scratch layers. Scratch cakes are heavy if you are not used to them.

Anyone I know far prefers those old pesky heavy scratch cakes! I can't remember the last one I made; I think a lemon sour cream pound cake.

I'm going to be baking a German chocolate cake on Friday, though, for Robert's birthday. It's his favorite.

Well, I posted but it apparently got lost. Thanks for the tea cake recipe, Gaz. I will be baking it today for our son's arrival tomorrow. It will give us something to snack on over the long weekend visit. I don't have any "white" raisins, but I do have currants and will use them for their light flavor.

Lo and behold, I found some golden raisins I forgot I had, so I baked the cake using soured 1% and it is cooling now. Not so sure I like the flour mixture on top as the flour doesn't cook into the cake. Maybe I should just save 2 tablespoons of both of the sugars and sprinkle that on top with the cinnamon.

graywings, would you mind sharing your cranberry pie recipe?

Last night I made a chocolate chip zucchini cake. No frosting needed. Thats one way to get a teenage boy to eat some vegetables. He loves it! It went in his lunchbox today

Lisa, I make a chocolate-zucchini cake as well. Like yours, it's nice and moist and doesn't need icing; which is good, because I don't icings of any kind. I seldom eat cake, but this one is good.

Oh, Rhizo's post reminded me that I've baked Murraysmom's Cream Cheese Pound cake a couple of times. Rhizo mentioned a lemon one. How would one go about making a Lemon Cream Cheese Pound cake?

Jasdip, my usual recipe is the Southern Living rendition, but no cream cheese, just sour cream

HERE'S a scrumptious sounding version (lemon cream cheese), jasdip.

Rhizo, both of those recipes sound good! Thanks for posting the links. Now look what you made me do, I have to go and find some lemon extract :-)