Master Cake Recipe: Apple Cake and Pineapple Upside Down Cake

In scratch baking, there are shortcuts and there are loopholes. Many don't work, but this recipe is an exception.  With a single and sim...

Gingerbread Upside Down Cake

Unable to bear yet another dreary, white-sky cold winter day (and jetting to St. Barts was not an option), I baked up the best defense -- Gi...

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

 It's June, and I should be making all sorts of desserts with local strawberries and rhubarb, but I found myself with a very ripe pineap...