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Feb 4
7 min

Pocky Cake with Herringbone Decoration

Matcha flavored cake decorated with Pocky sticks in a herringbone pattern. Recipe for matcha cake and step-by-step instructions for how to c

Jan 28
3 min

10 Ideas for How To Use Leftover Cake Scraps

Fun and creative ways to reuse cake scraps after you’ve trimmed the edges (that is NOT cake balls or cake bars) to create a new dessert.

Dec 5, 2020
2 min

Jamaican Rum Cake (Caribbean Black Cake)

Jamaican Rum Cake, or Caribbean Black Cake, or Christmas Cake, whatever you call it, packs a boozy punch with fruit soaked for over 3 months

Dec 1, 2020
6 min

Lemon Raspberry Glitter Cake

Dairy-free recipe for moist lemon cardamom layer cake with raspberry buttercream frosting and toasted meringue topping.

Nov 21, 2020
5 min

Zoetrope Cake

Edible Zoetrope cake, modeled after a Victorian era toy, that shows a moving image optical illusion of a flower growing and dying.

Oct 16, 2020
6 min

Raspberry Rose Cake Bars

Rose and raspberry cake bars made with a rose cardamom cake with fresh rose petals folded into the batter, & raspberry buttercream frosting.

Aug 20, 2020
6 min

Honey Earl Grey Fig Cake

Layers of earl grey cake layered with fig vanilla jam, fresh figs, and honey cream cheese frosting. Topped with honeycomb and salted pistach

Jun 26, 2020
9 min

Watermelon Lemonade Cake

Happy Blogiversary Baking With Chickens! It’s been one year since this little blog popped into the universe as part of our dream (me and...

Sep 20, 2019
3 min

Raspberry Lemon UNICORN Cake

Sheet cake STUNNA! This one-layer Raspberry Lemon Sheet Cake with unicorn rainbow frosting is easier to make than you think.

Aug 1, 2019
3 min

Fried Chicken Sandwich Cake

I had it in my mind to make a three-tiered Fried Chicken Cake dripping in hot honey with maple Swiss buttercream.

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