Category Archives: Dessert

Travis House Cookies

Posted on February 5, 2025 by sparecake

A tasty meringue cookie, these are based off of a cookie served at the Travis House at Colonial Williamsburg, where they have chopped pecans – I subbed in chocolate chips, because of course I did. I also used King Arthur’s … Continue reading →

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Tanghulu

Posted on January 8, 2025 by sparecake

I had friends over around the holidays and suggested making tanghulu, because I’d had the recipe bookmarked for a while. One of my friends had been seeing teens making it in the microwave and burning themselves recently, so that is … Continue reading →

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Cranberry Orange Olive Oil Cake

Posted on December 25, 2024 by sparecake

A lightly orangey cake with a nice texture and a good topping. Actually, I made a batch of sugar cookies just to have something to put more of the cranberry icing on later! It’s good stuff! Ingredients: Cake: 2 cups … Continue reading →

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Cranberry Fudge Pie

Posted on December 11, 2024 by sparecake

I had this one saved in my calendar for November from months out, and it was a good call! Turns out cranberry and chocolate do work together, and as a convenient bonus you get some extra cranberry sauce you can … Continue reading →

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Italian Orange Ricotta Cookies

Posted on November 13, 2024 by sparecake

These cookies had a few things going against them – my house is freezing, so ‘room temperature’ butter is still quite solid, and the fact that I subbed in gluten-free flour, but they still came out pretty good! I might … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake

Posted on October 23, 2024 by sparecake

The actual hands-on parts for this are reasonably quick, but make sure to give yourself time for the cream cheese to come up to room temperature, and then for everything to chill. The way the recipe was originally written, the … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Banana Cake with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

Posted on September 25, 2024 by sparecake

This recipe perfectly used up the amount of cocoa powder I had left, so…phew that it didn’t need any more! There’s a good amount of banana flavor in the cake, and this only-some-cream-cheese frosting is quite nice. Definitely worth making … Continue reading →

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German Apple Cake with Buttermilk Frosting

Posted on September 11, 2024 by sparecake

It’s fall – time for apple things! This recipe calls for 4 Granny Smith apples – I sliced mine with a mandoline, before chopping in the other directions, which gave me a giant pile of apple, so big it didn’t … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Crust

Posted on August 21, 2024 by sparecake

It’s a cookie, it’s a crust, iiiiit’s a cookie crust! This crust stays firm enough to pick up slices even after being covered in pudding for a week, and has the flavor you’re looking for from a chocolate chip cookie. … Continue reading →

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Lemon Blueberry Streusel Pie

Posted on August 7, 2024 by sparecake

A nice, summery-flavored pie! I was buying a gluten free crust at the store, and they only had a regular sized – I recommend a deep-dish crust for this one to make sure all the filling fits. Because mine wasn’t … Continue reading →

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