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    Loaf Cake Recipes

    Learn how to make the best loaf cakes with these easy recipes, from the best banana bread without baking soda to a tangy lemon loaf cake.

    • Removing orange rhubarb cakes from mini loaf cake pans with a mini offset spatula.
      Orange Rhubarb Cakes
    • A slice of double chocolate banana bread on a plate.
      Chocolate Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips
    • Whole wheat pumpkin loaf cake topped with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting on a cutting board.
      Whole Wheat Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting
    • Slicing an orange cake with poppy seeds to serve it.
      Orange Poppy Seed Cake
    • Lemon loaf cake topped with lemon icing and fresh raspberries being sliced to serve it
      Lemon Loaf Cake
    • Chocolate pound cake sliced and served on dessert plates.
      Chocolate Coffee Pound Cake
    • Slice of chocolate loaf cake with a scoop of ice cream and fresh raspberries on a plate with a fork, with a striped linen tucked underneath.
      Chocolate Loaf Cake With Sour Cream
    • Slicing a chocolate and vanilla marble cake on a cutting board.
      Marble Cake With Sour Cream
    • Slicing and serving a pumpkin bread with cranberries.
      Best Pumpkin Bread with Cranberries
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake
    • A slice of maple pumpkin bread on a dessert plate.
      Maple Pumpkin Bread
    • Banana and cardamom buttermilk cake sliced
      Banana Buttermilk Loaf Cake
    • Mini matcha cakes on dessert plates.
      Easy Matcha Cake
    • Sliced pumpkin bread on a wood cutting board
      Healthier pumpkin bread (eggless, dairy-free, vegan, less sugar)
    • Christina Tosi's compost pound cake rectangular loaf cake with potato chips, pretzels, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, oats, and coffee, on a small cooling rack on parchment paper
      Christina Tosi's compost pound cake
    • Banana bread sliced on a cutting board.
      Banana Bread Without Baking Soda
    • Sliced vegan banana bread
      Eggless banana bread (dairy-free, vegan, less sugar)
    • Moist flavorful banana bread
      Super moist cardamom banana bread with sour cream
    • Banana bread 101: what can go wrong and how to make it right text overlaid on a freshly baked loaf of banana bread in a loaf pan
      How to make the best banana bread with tips & tricks for troubleshooting recipes
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    Make Marmalade

    • How to make marmalade
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange Marmalade Recipe
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • Three fruit marmalade

    Citrus Baking

    • A pink plate filled with lemon shortbread cookies and with a yellow napkin.
      Lemon Shortbread Cookies
    • gluten-free-lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-and-berries
      Gluten-free lemon cake with raspberries
    • Slicing and serving a glazed orange cake
      Orange Almond Cake (Gluten-Free + Grain-Free)
    • Removing orange rhubarb cakes from mini loaf cake pans with a mini offset spatula.
      Orange Rhubarb Cakes
    • lemon mousse
      Lemon mousse (gluten-free)
    • Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.
      Orange Cranberry Bundt Cake

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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