This is one of my personal favorites recipe at my bakery Sweet Laurel. It is just lightly sweetened, and has the perfect amount of spice for a carrot cake. Vegan swap option: To make the recipe vegan, ...

This extra carrot-y, not-too-sweet carrot cake is loaded with carrots and toasted nuts and slathered with orange cream cheese frosting. (Rebecca Peloquin / For The Times) My mom remarried when I was ...

1) Preheat your oven to 350 degree’s. 2) Spray your cake pans with vegetable oil and dust with flour. Set aside until ready to use. 3) In the bowl of your mixer, add the vegetable oil, sugar and ...

When my mom took me shopping to pick out a cake for my third birthday party, I perused the cake case and almost immediately zeroed in on a pure white coconut layer cake, crowned by a single gleaming ...

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. 2. Into a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and salt. 3. In the bowl of a stand mixer ...

(Excerpted from "The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook" 2nd edition by Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner with chef Brian Alberg. Used with permission from Countryman Press.) This handsome carrot ...

My mom remarried when I was in my 30s. Already on my path as a food professional, I decided to make her wedding cake. Or wedding cakes. I didn’t want to risk a tiered extravaganza caving in on itself ...