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19 Of Our Best Holiday Cake Recipes

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1. Holiday Cake: Turtle Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe

Starting off this holiday cake recipes list with a sweet and succulent cake that will have you and your guest begging for more.Oh who doesn’t love rich goodness of cheesecake? And how many of us like cheesecake that carries extra goodies on top, bottom and inside? If that is you then this holiday cake recipe is made for you. Turtle Pumpkin Cheesecake recipe, has all of the usual ingredients but has a mixture of pumpkin spice as an additional flavor. Not to mention chocolate and caramel sauce drizzle on top along with toasted pecans. Make your tongue say “Mmm-hmm.” Go ahead and make this holiday cake recipe a family favorite this season. We also like this Brandy Cheesecake Recipe.

2. Sugar-Free Dessert: Applesauce Cake Recipe

Now not all cakes have to be sugar filled like this next recipe for example. Typically, being on a sugar-free diet is not a part of the holiday plan. However, just because something is sugar-free doesn’t mean that it can’t be just as flavorful as a sugary delight. Try this Sugar free dessert: Applesauce Cake Recipe. This cake is completely simple to make and there are only a few substitutions that will only add to the deliciousness. Plus, when eating this cake you can still appease those sweet tooth cravings without feeling any guilt or heaviness when you’re done. Go ahead try it out!

3. Brown-Sugar Bourbon  Bundt Cake

You can’t have a true holiday without a bundt. And here is one bundt cake recipe that you can’t miss out on. Ladies and gentlemen, now introducing the Brown-Sugar Bourbon Bundt Cake recipe. Who doesn’t remember when you were in the kitchen and your grandmother or mother was filling the bundt pan with batter right before sliding the mixture into the oven? From this recipe you get the wonderful goodness of the maple brown-sugar emersed with a little liquor to enhance the sweetness of the entire cake that the family will adore.

4. Holiday Cake Favorite: Ambrosia Coconut Cake Recipe

Thanks to Southern Living, the Ambrosia Coconut Cake recipe is at our fingertips. This exotic cake recipe not only gives the sweet and refreshing flavors that everyone will love but can also serve as wonderful décor. It only takes a few easy steps to make and even better to taste, it is sure to quickly become a holiday tradition.

The holidays are a great time of the year. And what better way to celebrate it than with a baking recipe that will help to bring the entire family together. And these holiday cake recipes are just a small few of what you and your family can create. Don’t be limited and see what you all can come up with. Also, Stagetecture readers, do you have any recipes that you would like to share for the holidays?

15 Blogger Friends Holiday Cake Recipes

1. Holiday Rum Cake
2. Cranberry Orange Cake Recipe
3. Eggnog Bundt Cake Recipe
4. Tropical Christmas Cake
5. Cinnamon Roll Layer Cake
6. Gingerbread Bundt Cake With Vanilla Glaze
7. Gingerbreak Cheesecake
8. Ferrero Rocher Cake
9. Old Fashioned Jam Cake
10. Cranberry Pumpkin Upside Down Cake
11. Butter Crunch Cake
12. Cranberry Upside Down Cake
13. Simple Chocolate Peppermint Cake
14. Spiced Chocolate Eggnog Cake
15. Fresh Cranberry Cake Recipe

Do you want a chocolate cake recipes for the holidays?

Try this Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe!

Looking for more yummy desserts? Take a look through our dessert recipes category.

Still looking for a delicious holiday dessert? The Ambrosia Coconut Cake may be the one you’re looking for. This isn’t only delicious but easy to bake cake recipe that will please your holidays guests and looks great amidst your other holiday desserts. You only have to follow a few simple steps and your guests will never get enough of this sweet temptation. Thanks Southern Living for the great recipe!

Holiday Dessert: Ambrosia Coconut Cake

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Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs, separated
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon coconut extract
1/8 teaspoon table salt
Vanilla Buttercream
Ambrosia Filling
Garnishes: sweetened flaked coconut, fresh mint, maraschino cherries, orange slices

Procedure

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Beat butter at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until fluffy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
2. Combine flour and baking powder; stir together milk and coconut milk. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in extracts.
3. Beat egg whites and salt at high speed until stiff peaks form. Stir about one-third egg whites into batter; fold in remaining egg whites. Spoon batter into 3 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans.
4. Bake at 350° for 18 to 22 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks, and cool completely.
5. Place 1 cake layer on a serving platter. Spoon 1/3 cup Vanilla Buttercream into a zip-top plastic bag. Snip 1 corner of bag to make a small hole. Pipe a ring of frosting around cake layer just inside the top edge. Top with half of Ambrosia Filling, and spread to edge of ring. Top with a second cake layer. Repeat procedure with frosting and filling. Top with remaining cake layer, and spread frosting on top and sides of cake.

The whole recipe can serve up to 12 delicious slices of Ambrosia Coconut Cake. This cake recipe should be a perfect dessert for this holiday season.

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Don’t miss serving a delightful dessert on your holiday table. A serving of Holiday Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cheesecake with Chocolate Glaze can spell out the difference in your holiday meal. This mouth-watering, sweet temptation dessert is definitely a must recipe on your holiday menu.

Holiday Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cheesecake

Image via: Jocelyn Valencia – Pinterest

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Ingredients

Crust

• Vegetable-oil cooking spray
• 1 cup finely ground chocolate wafer cookies (4 ounces)
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 2 tablespoons sugar

Filling

• 4 ounces semisweet chocolate (55 to 61 percent cacao), finely chopped
• 4 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• Pinch of coarse salt
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 4 large eggs, room temperature
• 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
• Chocolate Glaze

Procedure

1. Crust: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Wrap bottom and outside of a 9-inch springform pan with a double layer of foil. Coat bottom of pan with cooking spray, and line with parchment. Spray parchment.
2. Stir together cookie crumbs, butter, and sugar in a medium bowl. Press mixture firmly into bottom of pan, and bake until firm, about 10 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on wire rack.
3. Filling: Melt chocolate in a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. Let cool. Beat cream cheese with a mixer on medium speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low, and beat in sugar in a slow, steady stream until combined. Beat in salt and vanilla until thoroughly combined and completely smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until combined after each addition (do not overmix).
4. Divide cream-cheese filling in half. Stir peanut butter into 1 half; stir melted chocolate in the other half. Ladle 1 cup peanut butter filling into center of crust, and tap pan gently on counter to settle. Ladle 1 cup chocolate filling directly on top of peanut butter filling. Repeat, then switching to half-cup amounts, continue to ladle fillings into crust, alternating them until all of each filling is used.
5. Bring a kettle of water to a boil. Set cake pan in a large roasting pan, and transfer to oven. Carefully pour boiling water into roasting pan to reach halfway up sides of cake pan. Bake until cake is set but still slightly wobbly in the center, about 1 hour 20 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on wire rack. Refrigerate cake in pan until cold, at least 6 hours, up to overnight. Before unmolding, run a knife around edge of cake. Pour glaze over top of cake, smoothing with an offset spatula and letting it drip down the sides.

You can yield at least 12 servings of Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cheesecake with Chocolate Glaze using the whole ingredients. This will truly change the way you enjoy your dessert this holiday season.

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Happy DIY Saturday and Happy Holidays! Thanksgiving has past and we are officially into the holiday season. Pick your choice of holiday to celebrate, every year your home comes alive with holiday cheer as your welcome guests into your home and show your appreciation of thanks throughout the year.

Have you thought of giving holiday food gifts this year? There is nothing better than getting into the holiday mood with festive goodies and treat. They are fun to make and even more enjoyable to give to neighbors, friends, co-workers, your children’s teachers and more!

Did you listen to Stagetecture Radio or download on iTunes on what to give the holiday host this season? Great ideas for gift giving for the holidays.

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How to Make Layered Jar Recipe Gifts

Tips from Organized Home

• Choose the right container. Wide-mouth canning jars are easier to fill than standard jars, and canning jar lids seal tightly to keep flavors in and moisture out. Recycled glass jars can be used for gifts in a jar, but be sure that re-purposed jars are clean, seal tightly, and that there are no residual odors clinging to the lid.
• Use a canning funnel. Layers will settle more neatly, and jars will be easier to fill.
• Follow recipes exactly. Don’t skip steps–many recipes call for flour to be sifted before it is measured. Sifted flour will pack down more tightly in the jar than flour dipped straight from the bin.
• Layer recipes ingredients “small to large” according to texture. Place powdery ingredients like flour mix at the bottom of the jar, add larger ingredients like oatmeal next, and layer the largest ingredients–nuts or chocolate chips–at the top of the jar.

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• Tamp each layer tightly. The flat top of a meat tenderizer mallet makes a great tool to tamp down each layer of ingredients!
• For pretty layered effects, divide brown sugar into two portions. When layers reach the middle of the jar, pack half the brown sugar into a thin layer and tamp down. Add pretty ingredients like cocoa or chocolate-covered candies, then add the second half of the brown sugar to seal off the section from more powdery ingredients.
• Wrap soft materials (like marshmallows) or strongly-flavored ones (like herb mixes) in plastic food wrap before adding them to the top of your Mason jar gift. This extra step will help keep ingredients fresh and flavorful.
• For longer storage, use a vacuum sealing system, like Foodsaver brand vacuum sealer, to remove air from finished Mason jar gifts.

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Every holiday season I look forward to holiday baking and holiday desserts. Whether it’s for Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas parties or just to give away as gifts to the neighbors, holiday baking is one of the best parts of this time of year. So this week and the upcoming DIY Saturday’s throughout the holiday season – I will feature helpful tips to make your holiday home perfect.

The Best Holiday Bundt Cake Recipes

Today is all about bundt cake pans. There are so many beautiful bundt cake pans out there. I remember as a child making a bundt cake with my dad and swirling the apple cinnamon swirl though the middle of the cake batter.. and then being so surprised when we cut in the cake to see the delicious swirl in every piece!

This month Southern Living feature a Brown Sugar- Bourbon bundt cake on the cover of their November 2012 issue and I said, “I have to share this gorgeous cake”.

Enjoy!

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Brown Sugar-Bourbon Bundt Cake

Ingredients

•    1 cup butter, softened
•    1/2 cup shortening
•    1 (16-oz.) package light brown sugar
•    5 large eggs
•    1 (5-oz.) can evaporated milk
•    1/2 cup bourbon
•    3 cups all-purpose flour
•    1/2 teaspoon baking powder
•    1/2 teaspoon salt
•    1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste
•    2 tablespoons powdered sugar
•    Garnishes: candied oranges, magnolia leaves

Directions

1.  Preheat oven to 325°. Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy. Gradually add brown sugar, beating at medium speed until light and creamy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
2.  Stir together evaporated milk and bourbon in a bowl. Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt in another bowl. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla bean paste. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch (12-cup) Bundt pan.
3.  Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 5 minutes to 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely (about 1 hour). Dust top lightly with powdered sugar.

Rum-Glazed Sweet Potato Cakes

Ingredients

•    3/4 cup golden raisins
•    1/3 cup dark rum
•    4 large eggs, at room temperature
•    2 cups granulated sugar
•    1 cup vegetable oil
•    2 teaspoons vanilla extract
•    2 cups pureed roasted sweet potatoes
•    3 cups all-purpose flour
•    1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
•    1 teaspoon baking powder
•    1 teaspoon baking soda
•    1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
•    1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
•    3/4 cup buttermilk
•    1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
•    1/4 cup butter
•    3 tablespoons whipping cream
•    1/2 cup finely chopped toasted pecans

Directions

1.   Stir together first 2 ingredients. Let stand 30 minutes.
2.  Meanwhile, beat eggs and granulated sugar at high speed with an electric mixer 2 to 4 minutes or until thick and pale. Add oil and vanilla, beating at low speed just until blended. Add sweet potato puree, beating just until blended and stopping to scrape down sides as needed.
3.  Preheat oven to 350°. Sift together flour and next 5 ingredients; add to egg mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Drain raisins, reserving rum. Fold raisins into batter. Spoon batter into 3 lightly greased 12-cup Bundt brownie pans, filling each three-fourths full.
4.  Bake at 350° for 14 to 16 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on lightly greased wire racks 5 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks.
5.  While cakes are baking, bring brown sugar and next 2 ingredients to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Boil, stirring constantly, 3 minutes or until mixture begins to thicken to a syrup-like consistency. Remove from heat; stir in reserved rum.
6.  Pierce tops of cakes multiple times using a wooden pick. Dip top halves of cakes in glaze, and hold 1 to 2 seconds (to allow glaze to soak into cakes). Place, glazed sides up, on lightly greased racks. Sprinkle each cake with pecans.
Note: To puree roasted sweet potatoes, peel potatoes as soon as they are slightly cooled. Press pulp through a wire-mesh strainer with the back of a spoon. You’ll need to roast about 1 1/2 lb. potatoes for 2 cups puree.
Brought to the table by Sheri Castle (adapted from The New Southern Garden Cookbook).

 Cranberry Apple Pumpkin Bundt Cake

Ingredients

•    3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
•    1 1/2 cups peeled and diced Granny Smith apples
•    2 tablespoons butter, melted
•    1/2 cup finely chopped sweetened dried cranberries
•    1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
•    3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
•    2 cups granulated sugar
•    1 cup butter, softened
•    4 large eggs
•    1 (15-oz.) can pumpkin
•    1 tablespoon vanilla extract
•    3 cups all-purpose flour
•    2 teaspoons baking powder
•    2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
•    1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Directions

1.  Preheat oven to 350°. Bake pecans in a single layer in a shallow pan 6 to 8 minutes or until toasted, stirring halfway through. Cool 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 325°.
2.  Toss diced apples in 2 Tbsp. melted butter to coat in a medium bowl; add cranberries, next 2 ingredients, and toasted pecans, and toss until well blended.
3.  Beat granulated sugar and 1 cup butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. Add pumpkin and vanilla; beat just until blended.
4.  Stir together 3 cups flour and next 3 ingredients. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended after each addition. Spoon half of batter into a greased and floured 10-inch (12-cup) Bundt pan. Spoon apple mixture over batter, leaving a 1/2-inch border around outer edge. Spoon remaining batter over apple mixture.
5.  Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 10 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 15 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack; cool completely (about 2 hours).
6.  Meanwhile, prepare Sugared Pecans and Pepitas.
7.  Prepare Maple Glaze; immediately spoon onto cooled cake. Arrange pecans and pepitas on cake.

All images via Southern Living

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