Skip banana bread and make Ina Garten’s banana cake with overripe bananas. The Barefoot Contessa cake recipe is easy to follow. And, unlike banana bread, it has cream cheese frosting. For some, ...

Baking a cake from scratch is scary. You can tell this from supermarket aisles lined with cake mixes, and the scant likelihood of ever running into a homemade cake at an office party or potluck dinner ...

It’s a question Lori Chieffallo and her family ask themselves often in reference to their late matriarch, Olivia Picchini. “Well, what would Meme say?” That’s because the Eynon woman, who died in 2014 ...

Instructions: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two (9-inch) round cake pans. Stir shortening to soften. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt into shortening. Add mashed ...

What could be better than a loaf of banana bread? Banana cake topped with a generous swoop of smooth cream cheese frosting. Much like the ever-popular banana bread, this cake is buttery, moist, ...