Yellow Layer Cake with Blood Orange Curd and Vanilla Buttercream {Creamsicle Cake}

Yellow #LayerCake with #BloodOrange Curd and Vanilla #Buttercream. Yes please! For the full #recipe, visit OnlyTasteMatters.com. #dessert #glutenfree

Heavy. Heavy is the word I hear the most to describe gluten-free baked goods. Well, heavy and chewy but I’ve already addressed chewy so we are left with the problem of heavy. Now one of the ways you make a cake lighter in traditional baking is to use cake flour. It has less gluten and it’s therefore lighter. Well something with less gluten seems like it would be easy to make gluten-free right? However, there is no gluten-free cake flour on the market. So I looked online for a recipe to make my own. Nothing. Huh?

Bailey’s White Chocolate Cheesecake with Almond Brown Sugar Crust

Bailey's #WhiteChocolate #Cheesecake with Almond Brown Sugar Crust. It's made with Bailey's Irish Cream so it's perfect for #StPatricksDay. For the full #recipe, visit OnlyTasteMatters.com.

There is a multitude of conflicting advice out there on how to make the “perfect” cheesecake. While everyone seems to agree you simply must bake it in a water bath, there seems to be much debate on the type of pan. Many Internet sources say to use a springform pan. However, in culinary class theyRead more

Chocolate Orange Bundt Cake with Chocolate Grand Marnier Ganache

Chocolate Orange #BundtCake with #Chocolate Grand Marnier Ganache. Mouth watering! Visit OnlyTasteMatters.com for the full #recipe. #dessert #baking #glutenfree

My grandmother loves fruit with chocolate. You name it, chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate covered cherries, chocolate covered banana, basically if you cover any fruit in chocolate, she’s happy. Every Mother’s day, birthday, and Hanukkah I always go to my local chocolate shop and get her orangettes which I have learned are French for chocolate covered orange peel. And here I thought the famous blog Orangette was a made up word like Bakerella (which I am assuming is a pun on Barbarella). Who knew?

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Red Velvet Cake seems to be a specialty of everyone’s grandmother who grew up in the South. However, being a Yankee, I only heard of it a few years ago. Now people seem to rave about it so I spent the last few years tasting red velvet cake at every southern restaurant we went to. It just seemed to be yellow cake mix with red food coloring. I was perplexed. I mean that can’t be what all the fuss was about. No way.

Flourless Nutella Cake

#Flourless Nutella #Cake. And what is better than #Nutella? Visit OnlyTasteMatters.com for the full #recipe. #dessert #baking #glutenfree

February 5 is World Nutella Day. That’s right boys and girls, there is actually a holiday to celebrate Nutella. Every year a day is set aside for us to rejoice in the splendor that is Nutella. Now while this seems rather odd, I mean a holiday to celebrate a spread, really?, I can’t imagine a food more deserving.