Cakes

Easy Peanut Butter Cake uses just six ingredients, is mixed in one bowl, and bakes in about half an hour. It’s simple and quick and your family will love it! This peanut butter cake is my favorite way to make a one layer cake. It’s just quick and easy, and you don’t even have frosting …

Pumpkin Crumb Cake is sweet and fragrant from notes of allspice, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon. It’s an easy-to-make, tender cake that’s great for morning coffee or after dinner. This easy Pumpkin Crumb Cake is delightful any time of the year. It’s simple, easy, and combines all the fun pumpkin spices with a brown sugar …

Chocolate Molten Lava Cake with bittersweet chocolate and cocoa has a luscious, gooey, chocolate center and can be made ahead! Perfect date night dessert! If you’re searching for the perfect romantic dessert to accompany a dinner for two, this chocolate molten lava cake, with its rich, flowing melted chocolate, is probably about as perfect as …

Moist yellow cake recipe that gives you perfect results every time! No more wondering how your cake will turn out — this recipe is easy and delicious! And you can use it for a layer cake or cupcakes. For years I used my Granny’s Feather Cake recipe when baking a yellow birthday cake, but I …

One Layer Cake recipe that’s SO EASY and is perfectly moist and tender every time. Your cake is ready in about 45 minutes start to finish! This cake is almost as easy as Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies! Because you do NOT need the stand mixer. You do NOT need more than one bowl. You …

Red, white, and blue cake is the perfect 4th of July cake! Everything goes in one bowl and this patriotic cake is one layer so it’s super easy! I love making my easy One Layer Cake because it’s just right for smaller occasions when you don’t have time or don’t want the trouble of multiple …

Easy Buttercream Frosting is so simple and quick. All you need is butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, a little cream, and about 10 minutes! When I was a little girl, nearly everything that came out of our kitchen was homemade—so naturally, I wanted all the things in the store that were not homemade and canned buttercream …

Funfetti cake makes everyone smile and this recipe is so easy it will make YOU smile! Grab your sprinkles and make the easiest, moistest cake ever! Funfetti cake is one of those iconic recipes that makes people happy. Kids love the colors and sprinkles and adults love the trip back to memory lane when sprinkle …

Easy Sour Cream Coffee Cake with a layer of gooey cinnamon filling and streusel topping. It’s easy and just right for brunch or weekend house guests! This Sour Cream Coffee Cake can feed several people and has just enough cinnamon to make it spicy and warm for the heart. You can prepare the batter for …

Cream Cheese Pound Cake is sweet, buttery, moist, and delicious—the perfect pound cake! It’s an easy go-to cake for any occasion and it’s my family’s favorite cake! Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe Remember those cookbooks that churches or various ladies’ groups put together? Not even a hard cover book, just pages held together with a …

Southern caramel cake with homemade caramel icing from butter, sugar, and milk. This one tastes just like Grandma’s! A classic favorite, Southern Caramel Cake is just a regular yellow cake frosted with a sweet caramel cake icing. Some folks like to drizzle the caramel icing in between the layers and just let it drip from …

Easy Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze is a simple recipe using the Cream Cheese Pound Cake base and adding a zesty lemony glaze—it’s fresh, pretty, and lip-smacking good! Pound cakes are ubiquitous to any Southern gathering that includes food…and isn’t that every Southern gathering? A lot of old pound cake recipes, while they have …

The best chocolate cake made with Hershey’s cocoa is a full-flavored chocolate layer cake with a chocolate cream cheese frosting! And it’s one-bowl easy! When I was growing up, my Mama would ask me what kind of cake I wanted for my birthday and every year my answer was the same: CHOCOLATE. Back then, Mama …

Chocolate Coca-Cola cake is an old-fashioned Southern favorite made with cocoa and real Coca-Cola. It’s moist, delicious, and easy! Have y’all ever tasted a Chocolate Coca-Cola Cake? It’s a lot like my Chocolate Sheet Cake, but this one has a primary ingredient of real Coca-Cola®! This Coca-Cola cake recipe has been around for decades and …

Peanut Butter Pound Cake topped with chocolate glaze and crumbled Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. If they could put Heaven on a plate, this would be it. So this happened. I made this Peanut Butter Pound Cake on Saturday and it ran smack dab into a bowl of chocolate glaze and then fell over into a …

This Pumpkin Sheet Cake falls into the OMG is this for real category of recipes. It’s moist, easy to make, full of fun fall flavor and fragrant spices, and best of all, topped with the most amazing white chocolate and cream cheese frosting. The cake is made in a half-sheet pan so it’s just right …

Toasted Cream Cheese Pound Cake flavored with butter and broiled just long enough to get toasty and brown! This is so perfect with a little fruit compote or caramel sauce! We have had a few glorious days here in Georgia, with cool breezes teasing us as the last vestiges of summer begin to fade into fall. Of …

Sometimes, in the midst of life and its mysterious happenings, it can seem frivolous to me to sit down and write about things like Peach and Blueberry Upside-Down Cake. Just before I started this post, I received a text from my daughter telling me about a young friend’s husband who had just passed from cancer. …

A luscious strawberry sheet cake with fresh strawberries and cream cheese frosting that’s always a crowd-pleaser and easy to take along for potlucks. The arrival of spring is heralded by daffodils, dogwoods, do-it-yourself projects, and one of my favorite loves, strawberries. Since we’re so close to Florida, we start getting beautiful fresh strawberries in February …

Salted Caramel Sheet Cake is a moist and easy cake with a homemade caramel frosting. If you’re feeding a crowd, you’ll have a happy party! I know I have bombarded y’all with desserts this week, but I have to share one more. First though, a little housekeeping. If you’re receiving my posts via email and you’re getting …

Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting—moist, spicy banana cake with tangy cream cheese frosting! Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting This banana cake. Oh, my goodness, this cake. It’s a little like banana bread, but not bread. More spicy, with cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, and cloves. This banana cake is super moist and graced with tangy cream …

Fresh strawberry cake filled with strawberry-lemon jam and topped with a fresh strawberry cream cheese frosting—this is a special occasion show-stopper and it’s divine! Part of the genesis of In a Southern Kitchen was a desire to share recipes and ideas that would help folks entertain at home. Tolkien said, “If more of us valued …

Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting made from an easy and moist recipe that will quickly become a family favorite! This cake is a classic for weddings, showers, and any event.  What is Red Velvet Cake? Red velvet cake…is it a Southern classic or the product of a food coloring manufacturer’s marketing scheme? No …

Blueberry breakfast cake made with fresh blueberries and lemon zest and super moist from buttermilk. It’s quick and easy! We’ve had a busy summer already, and it’s only half over. But it’s all been the fun kind of busy so that makes it ok. We spent a weekend at Lake Blue Ridge at our friends’ house. …