Sweet And Crumby

Baking, a Love Story


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A Pumped Up Zucchini and a Glorious Cake Mistake

I didn’t know it until this blog, but apparently I am a bundt person.  I hadn’t realized it until just a few posts into this whole blogging thing and low and behold I am already on my second bundt.  This blog is really helping me to get to know myself better and to my surprise I love big bundts.  Pun intended.  Sorry! Continue reading


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A Bundt that is Sunny Side Up

Isn’t it cheerful? What could be sunnier than a beautiful pumpkin citrus bundt cake with juicy little Mandarin Oranges garnishing the top? Even the name “bundt” is cheerful. Say it a few times in a row…did you crack a smile? I thought so.

You may think that this pumpkin and spice laden bundt should be baked in the fall where it would fit right in with the other flavors of the season, however, I could not pass up the opportunity to use a HOME GROWN PUMPKIN from my mother’s bountiful garden. Continue reading


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A Whopper of a Cake

This creamy, malted, chocolatey cake is as it implies…it is a whopper of a cake.

It’s everything a cake should be. First and foremost,
for it to be ALL THAT, it MUST BE chocolate

So for all of you out there trying to tell me that there are some outrageous vanilla, fruit or other flavored cakes that are on par with chocolate, you may as well check out now. We weren’t really meant to be friends. It was a rather short relationship anyways so there’s no hard feelings on my part.  Feel free to move along to the next blog on your to do list…one that does not have a chocolate crazed maniac as its author. Continue reading