Bake or Break

Hummingbird Cupcakes

View a printable recipe or more photos During our last trip to New York, we hit up the Cupcake Stop truck for an afternoon treat. I was surprised to find Hummingbird Cupcakes on their menu. For those of you unfamiliar with this particular cake, it is a fabulous Southern dessert that has been around for ages.

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Hazelnut Cake

View a printable recipe or more photos Quinn's birthday cake this year is a familiar theme: chocolate and hazelnut. That's been the common factor of his birthday dessert for the last couple of years. I'm certainly not complaining because that is one of my favorite flavor combinations.

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Butter Pecan Cake

View a printable recipe or more photos It's been a while since I had a non-chocolate recipe on BoB. Personally, I don't think there's any such thing as too much chocolate, but maybe variety isn't such a bad thing, either.

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German Chocolate Cheesecake

View and printable recipe or more photos I'm a little late with this, but I had to brag on my birthday cake. I think many bakers are left to make their own birthday cakes. I, however, have Quinn, who always comes through at the end of August.

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Blueberry Crumb Cake

View a printable recipe or more photos I found this recipe while flipping through Nick Malgieri's Perfect Cakes. He prefaces it by saying that he makes this cake about half a dozen times every summer. Knowing how much I have liked his recipes in the past, I did not hesitate to turn on the oven and get to baking.

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Coconut Cake

View a printable recipe or more photos One of my very favorite desserts is coconut cake. Strangely enough, I think I've only made two or three of them in my life. One reason could be Quinn's vehement aversion to all things coconut. Other than that, I'm not sure what the reasoning is. In any case, I decided to put an end to the coconut drought.

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