Holiday Selections

Three tender layers of spicy gingerbread cake, layered between with a whole jar of crunchy cookie butter spread and frosted with whipped maple mascarpone cream. Decorated with gingerbread people playing in the “snow” amongst rosemary pine trees. Happy Holidays! 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

There's a whole bottle of eggnog in each cake! Three tender layers of eggnog cake with added fresh grated nutmeg, filled with stovetop eggnog pastry cream and then frosted with vanilla bean mascarpone frosting including 2 tablespoons of top-shelf bourbon. Garnished with candied rosemary fronds and candied cranberries plus sparkle for a look that says, Happy Holidays! Note: If you like the deco but not the flavors, ANY of my cakes can be decorated in this same way for $5 above their listed price.

Coquito is a Puerto Rican holiday drink  featuring coconut, warm spices and dark rum. Now you can taste it as a cake! Three tender cinnamon/nutmeg cake layers are filled with fresh, stovetop coconut pastry cream and frosted with Myers dark rum buttercream.  Yum! 3-layer, 8-inch cake.

Soft, spicy gingerbread cupcakes with vanilla latte espresso buttercream and a swirl of caramel sauce with chopped toffee. Tastes like the warm, spicy winter holidays. 24 cupcakes, 13X9 flat cake or 3-layer, 8-inch cake, all same price.

So pretty and pink, with a heart on top! Three layers of my supermoist dark chocolate cake, frosted with whipped pink peppermint buttercream and coated with crushed candy cane and a textured swirl on top. I give you two candy canes to make a <3 on top before you serve it. 3-layer, 8-inch cake, 24 cupcakes or 13X9 flat cake. 

It's a pecan pie in cake form! My soft, brown sugar cake is filled with a fresh, stovetop pecan pie filling and frosted with a whipped brown sugar buttercream. It makes a tall, impressive cake, decorated with more filling and pecan halves on top of swirls. Definitely a crowd-pleaser for Thanksgiving instead of the usual pecan pie. 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Three tender, white velvet layers filled with a freshly made, stovetop blueberry jam from a whole, large box of fresh berries. Frosted with blueberry cream cheese frosting, plus swirled jam and more fresh berries on top. Berry-licious! 3-layer, 8-inch cake.

FOUR separate from-scratch elements make the perfect cake for key lime pie lovers! Three fluffy layers of lime cake using fresh juice and zest, filled with fresh, stovetop Key lime curd and frosted with marshmallow buttercream for the “meringue “before being coated around the outside with a freshly-made, oven-baked graham cracker snack as the “crust“.  Deluxe! 3-layer 8 inch cake. 

If you love Dutch apple pie, you’ll really love it as a cake. I add reduced apple cider syrup to my white batter to get three fluffy layers of apple cider cake. Next, I hand peel, core and slice paper thin four apples and cook them with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and cardamom into a delicious apple pie filling. Frosted with with vanilla bean buttercream and an oven-baked oatmeal pecan streusel for texture, crunch and a deep toasty nutty flavor.

A different take on apple pie! Three tender layers of cinnamon apple cake incorporating four whole, large Granny Smith apples folded inside the batter, both chopped and grated, to give it lots of fresh apple flavor and interesting texture. Next, it gets layered with freshly made, stovetop caramel sauce and whipped cinnamon cream cheese frosting and drizzled with more caramel on top. 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Do you love lemon? Well this cake has HUGE lemon flavor! Three lemon cake layers featuring fresh lemon juice and zest are filled with tart stovetop lemon curd which uses another four lemons and tastes exactly like the filling of lemon meringue pie. Frosted with marshmallow flavored buttercream for the "meringue" and decorated with sugared lemon rinds on top. 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

The filling is exactly what's in a chocolate silk cream pie! Three supermoist layers of dark chocolate cake, filled with creamy, from-scratch, chocolate pastry cream made with Guittard 63% chocolate chips, and scattered with semisweet mini chocolate chips. Frosted with milk or dark chocolate whipped cream buttercream. Decorated with swirls and more Ghirardelli mini chips. 3-layer 8-inch cake. 

A perfect cake for cherry pie lovers. Fluffy white velvet almond cake layers filled with thick layers of cherry pie filling made that day on the stovetop from both sweet and sour cherries. Frosted with almond American buttercream and decorated with piped frosting and more cherry filling on top to make FOUR layers of cake and FOUR layers of cherry pie filling! Cherry to the max! 4-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Three fluffy layers of white velvet cake flavored with almond and filled with a from-scratch, stovetop, peach pie filling and frosted with amaretto American buttercream. Decorated with rosettes and a swirl of the filling. 3-layer, 8-inch cake    

Three fluffy layers of white velvet cake are layered with fresh, stovetop pistachio pastry cream incorporating 2 whole cups of ground nuts. Frosted with pistachio buttercream featuring another 1/2 cup of finely ground nuts, before being  decorated with chopped, toasted pistachios around the outside and on top. A pistachio lovers dream! 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Coconut Cream Pie as you've never had it before. Three fluffy layers of white cake filled with fresh, from scratch coconut pastry cream and frosted with coconut buttercream and dried coconut. Perfect for the holiday table. 3-layer 8-inch cake. 

Three layers of orange velvet cake flavored with lots of orange juice and zest, filled with a fresh, stovetop, tangy orange curd and frosted with whipped orange cream cheese frosting. Orangey, creamy bliss! 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 

Ok, so maybe this one is cheating🙂but hey, it has pie in the name and everyone would be happy to see it on the Thanksgiving table!  Two thicker, yellow velvet cake layers sandwich fresh stovetop vanilla bean pastry cream and are frosted all over with dark, bittersweet 68% Guittard chocolate ganache. Simple and perfect, a definite crowd pleaser. 2-layer, 9-inch cake. 

If berry pies are your jam (see what I did there), you'll love this one.  Three tender layers of white velvet cake, layered with a fresh, stovetop mixed berry jam of blueberries, raspberries and blackberries (not seedless) and then frosted with my Ermine frosting, which tastes exactly like sweetened whipped cream. Garnished with fresh berries brushed with apricot jam. 3-layer, 8-inch cake. 3-layer 8-inch cake. 

If banana cream pie is your fave, here's your cake! Three yellow velvet layers are filled with smooth, stovetop banana pastry cream and frosted with banana flavored buttercream, then decorated with mini vanilla wafers, and a drizzle of caramel. Enjoy everyone’s favorite childhood dessert as a cake! 3-layer, 8-inch cake.

Don't forget the cranberries! Three tender, orange cake layers flavored with orange juice and zest, layered with three layers of freshly made, stovetop, tart cranberry jam and frosted all over with orange, whipped buttercream frosting. Perfect for the holiday table! 3-layer 8-inch cake.  

Looking for my actual pie menu, not "cakes as pies"? I've got you covered. Click the strawberry pie picture above and it will take you there. 

The horror fan in your life will love this fun cake! Three supermoist layers of blood red velvet cake frosted with creamy, whipped cream cheese frosting and decorated with homemade "blood". Yes, you get to keep the knife. 3 layer 8 inch cake.  Don't like red velvet cake? You can have any other flavor you like instead. 3-layer, 8-inch cake.

Muahaha do you DARE to order such spooky cupcakes?? They are spooky as well as extremely delicious. Supermoist chocolate cupcakes are topped with vanilla bean buttercream and decorated with freshly made caramelized sugar glass and a “blood“ drip. The sugar glass looks sharp but is easily chewed and not sticky or hard. 24 decorated cupcakes. 

It looks gross, but it tastes delicious for the cat-loving person in your life who also likes a good gross-out joke :) Moist vanilla Texas sheet cake, frosted with vanilla buttercream and topped with crushed vanilla Oreos, a little bit of green food coloring and some melted Tootsie Rolls. Comes in actual brand new cat pan with cat scooper that you get to keep! 9X13 cake.

Three tender layers of pink strawberry cake featuring 2 cups of cooked down strawberry purée in the batter, frosted with vanilla bean buttercream tinted light pink. Decorated for Halloween with marshmallow spiderwebs, white and gold deco and white chocolate ghosts. So sweet for a non-scary Halloween 🎃 3-layer, 8-inch cake.

Spooky for the season! Three layers of rich, dark chocolate cake using real black cocoa are frosted with white vanilla bean American buttercream, then covered in a black, shiny drip glaze made on the stovetop. 3-layer, 8-inch cake.

Happy Halloween! Celebrate with these adorable vanilla, fall-spiced cupcakes including freshly grated nutmeg, Saigon cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom. Frosted with a swirl of whipped vanilla bean cream cheese frosting dyed orange and dressed up as cute little pumpkins with Dot's pretzel stems and frosting vines. 24 cupcakes.