Every day cakes — Recipes — Pancakes and Biscotti

Carla's Banana Bread

Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink banana bread, complete with chocolate, oats, raisins, walnuts, and coconut.

Breakfast and Brunch, Every day cakes, Recipes from Carla TomasiFrancesa BruzzeseOctober 3, 2024

Panettone Loaf Cake

This chic panettone-cake cross is soft, buttery, and super fragrant, thanks to lots of orange zest, honey, and vanlila bean. It’s dotted with plump raisins and candied orange, and is especially nice if you’re living outside of Italy and have a tough time getting your panettone fix.

Breakfast and Brunch, Christmas, Every day cakes, Cakes and CupcakesFrancesca BruzzeseDecember 10, 2023

Alessandro's Torta di Mele

Italy’s chic, no-frills take on the autumnal apple cake —a light, fluffy, lemony, and intensely apple-y torta which demands to be added to your Fall baking line-up.

Cannoli Pound Cake

If a cannolo and a pound cake had a baby, this would be the result — a quick, every day cake made with ricotta, orange zest, chocolate chips, and pistachios, as at home for breakfast as it is as dessert.

Dreamy Pistachio Cake + 31st Birthday

A rich, buttery, intensely pistachio-y (new word) cake, perfect at breakfast, for snack, or for dessert.

Cakes and Cupcakes, Every day cakesFrancesca BruzzeseJanuary 31, 2020breakfast, cake, easy, spring, sweet, winterComment

Chocolate Orange and Olive Oil Cake

A rich, deeply chocolate-y cake with hints of citrus, perfect for snack, breakfast, or dessert.

Brownie Ciambellone

A cross between the Italian ciambellone and the American brownie — need I say more?!

White Chocolate Blueberry Cake

One of those simple, everyday cakes that I love so much, with a dense, moist texture, a (not too) sweet vanilla flavor, and lots and lots of sweet juicy blueberries,

Mimosa (Orange and Prosecco) Cake

Have your Mimosa and eat it too!

Lemon, Ricotta, Olive Oil Cake

A lovely, fragrant, fluffy lemon cake perfect for snack, tea, or dessert.

Gingerbread Cake with Caramelized Pears

A deeply spicey, ginger-y cake divine when paired with a dollop of cold freshly whipped cream and warm, caramelized pears.

Cakes and Cupcakes, Every day cakes, ChristmasFrancesca BruzzeseDecember 14, 2016american recipes, breakfast, cake, easy, sweet, winterComment

Pumpkin Bread

Perfect pumpkin bread for the Fall.

Every day cakes, Pumpkin Spice, Breakfast and BrunchFrancesca BruzzeseOctober 7, 2016american recipes, autumn, breakfast, cake, easy, pumpkin, sweetComment

Torta della Vendemmia

Grapes baked into light and fluffy cake with hints of vanilla and orange that manages to both complement the grapes and let still let them shine. The olive oil here gives the cake a more subtle flavor than your usual simple butter cake, the yogurt keeps the cake moist, and that spoonful of sugar over the top adds a pleasant sugary crust to the top of the cake and makes it almost sparkly.

Ricotta Pound cake with Strawberries

Now, as simple as this cake looks -- just a plain loaf cake, really -- it is not to be underestimated. It is rich and buttery and dense and vanilla-y, and the star ingredient here, the ricotta, adds something special, making it extra fluffy and moist. When topped with a mound of tart juicy strawberries and a dusting of powdered sugar, it is pure pound cake perfection, truly one of the best things I have ever baked.

Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread

Besides the fact that this banana bread particularly easy to whip up -- just a little stirring and mashing, and you're all set! -- it is absolutely delicious, fragrant and tender and studded with chunks of melt-y dark chocolate, everything you could ever want to for breakfast, snack, or tea.

Every day cakes, Breakfast and BrunchFrancesca BruzzeseApril 27, 2016american recipes, breakfast, cake, chocolate, easy, fruit, spring, sweetComment

Chocolate Loaf Cake

This cake is fudgy and rich while still managing to be light and fluffy and not overly sweet. It is extremely moist thanks to the addition of the plain yogurt, and deeply chocolate-ly thanks to a generous dose of cocoa powder. The mini chocolate chip topping is not to be left out here – it adds another layer of chocolate to the whole cake, not to mention they look pretty as well.

Cakes and Cupcakes, Every day cakes, Breakfast and BrunchFrancesca BruzzeseFebruary 23, 2016american recipes, breakfast, cake, chocolate, easy, sweetComment

Triple Orange Pound Cake

This cake is moist, dense, and mildly sweet, with a bright and sunny and ardently citrus flavor, exactly what you need to wake you up on a cold winter morning,