Joy the Baker adds pineapple, coconut, nuts and more to her Kitchen Sink Carrot Cake, and then bakes it in a Bundt cake pan and tops with thick cream cheese frosting to make a celebratory dessert.
Get ready to make an instant best friend: Joy the Baker, aka Joy Wilson, is a chatty, sassy pancake-lover, blogger and self-taught baker who’s sure to charm you with her girl talk and sweet recipe combo. Visit her blog for a fun coffee-break read (be prepared to crave cake afterward) and check out her new cookbook, Joy the Baker Cookbook: 100 Simple and Comforting Recipes.
Joy’s lighthearted, unpretentious approach to baking shines through in her cookbook. It’s hard not to love chapter titles like: “pancakes pancakes pancakes, and other lesser breakfast items”; “i need a hug or a brownie. maybe both.”; and “i think i just ate chocolate for dinner.” Her treats are perfect for sharing with family and friends and, of course, for spring holiday celebrations like Easter and Mother’s Day.
We’re featuring a celebration cake and a travel-friendly treat for Easter weekend. Try these recipes from the Joy the Baker Cookbook today:
Kitchen Sink Carrot Cake
Browned Butter Peanut Butter Crispy Rice Treats
"Butter is good; browned butter is better," says Joy. Browned Butter Peanut Butter Crispy Rice Treats make great take-along sweets for any get-together.
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orange ricotta cheesecake/pound cake banked in ONE pan. So great!
Rhubarb Dump Cake
rice krispy treats in various colors!!!!
Tomorrow, I'm making 3D Chocolate Cheesecake for Easter Sunday!
I plan on making an angel food cake this evening!! =)
Fresh Pineapple upside down cake
I'm planning on making Strawberry Lemon pudding with pound cake on Sunday.
coconut cake
Blueberry scones and chocolate cake
Cupcakes!
Strawberry cheesecake!
Cherry Cheesecake!
I made a batch of chocolate chip cookies for my grandaughter and a batch of chocolate rice krispy treats for everybody else! :0)
Brownie Easter Eggs, Sugar Cream Pie
I made peanut butter cinnamon cookies with Easter-colored M&Ms. They look very springy.
Cupcakes
any cake is a good cake, be it choco, vanilla, coconut or anything
I actually have an oatmeal banana bread in the oven right now. Thinking of making a Nutella Cake tomorrow for an Easter treat.
Orange cream sugar cookies
Raspberry macaroons
Coconut Cream Pie! Sure would like to try Joy's Banana Coconut Cream Pie!
One of my husband's favorites 14 Carat cake (carrot cake) from scratch it has grated carrots, crushed pineapple, pecans, even raisins if you so desire and then frost with homemade cream cheese frosting and sprinkle with additional chopped pecans. Very Yummy, Moist filling cake.
Crispy rice treats, for sure! Yummy in my tummy.
Orange Bundt Cake
Strawberry Rhubarb crumble. Nothing says spring quiet like rhubarb.
Lemon white chocolate tart.
Oh definitely trying the Kitchen Sink Carrot Cake, for sure
Spring is in the air, my father-in-law is due back from Florida it's time to bake my cream cheese pound cake
Joy's blog is one of the best. Not only will you find beautiful pictures, but you get to laugh–a ton–when visiting it
I'm currently waiting for lemon ice cream to chill so i can swirl in strawberry sauce and crushed up vanilla meringues!
A Giant Rice Krispie Treat Egg….. it's about 8" in circumfrence, 6" long. Hollow, with edible easter grass anda chocolate covered peep inside. Not so much baking… but it is a delicious spring treat~
I'm going to make key lime cookies.
I am makung a Chocolate Kahlua Bundt Cake.
I want!!!!!!!!
Orange-almond flourless cupcakes. I just discovered them and plan on making more!!
Sour cream loaf cake w/chocolate sauce drizzled on top
carrot cake – the best at
Easter!
Came across a nice looking lemon cake (Lemon Truffle Cake) Making that for Easter.
Carrot Cake w/Spiced Frosting
Greek custard pie or strawberry rhubarb pie
My Easter/Spring dessert this weekend will be Braided Lemon Bread (filled with Lemon Curd)! YUM-0!
Considering it is Easter weekend, I will be making Apricot Almond bars, as well as Italian Sweet Bread and Ricotta Pineapple Rice Pie for Sunday brunch. They are all traditional Italian sweets that are only consumed this time of year. Happy Easter and Passover to all!
I like to make seasonal dishes. I am waiting for Rhubarb to be ready for picking, have a new recipe for a Rhubarb Torte that I want to try.
Fresh blueberry pie! The best!
apple cake
Pineapple dream cake!
Souu cream coffee cake, banana nut cake,french breakfast muffins and much more, I like to bake and cook.
I'm making strawberry muffins with cinnamon cream cheese frosting! Yum!
Blueberry muffins.
Streusel Topped Triple Berry coffee cake.