Recipes

This frosting recipe is great with Black Forest cake or any other cake. Pair this icing with cherry pie filling and your favorite chocolate cake for a delicious Black Forest cake.

This recipe takes the flavors of banana bread and turns them into a super-moist sheet cake. The crunchy, nutty streusel topping balances out the sweet cake, which gets finished with a boozy rum glaze for even more flavor. To make it in advance, prepare the cake up until step 4 and then glaze it day-of. The cooled cake can be covered loosely with plastic wrap at room temperature for up to 2 days.

This super-fast sauce comes together in just minutes and makes a next-level topping for Lena Sareini's Brown-Butter Banana Bread. Chunks of sweet, ripe banana get pureed into the cooked caramel, yielding a thick, rich sauce that amplifies the rich flavor of the banana bread.

Crème pâtissière, sometimes shortened to creme pat, is a rich and creamy vanilla pastry cream or thick custard that has the perfect consistency for filling eclairs, cream puffs, and fruit tarts.

These Boston cream pie cupcakes are everything you love about Boston cream pie—the fluffy vanilla cake, pastry cream filling, and rich chocolate frosting—just in miniature form!

Stabilized whipped cream holds up longer on desserts because it doesn't separate. Gelatin stiffens the whipped cream and makes the texture seem fuller and slightly spongy. It's perfect for topping a sweet pie with rosettes or to frost a cake.