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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.

    • A slice of homemade moist zucchini bread with chocolate chips served on a black dessert plate.
      Easy Moist Zucchini Bread With Yellow Summer Squash
    • A slice of healthy pumpkin loaf on a dessert plate.
      Healthier Pumpkin Bread (Eggless, Dairy-free, Vegan, Less Sugar)
    • 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
    • Banana bread on a cutting board being sliced.
      Banana Bread Without Baking Soda
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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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    Bake With Pumpkin

    • Serving a slice of pumpkin cheesecake topped with whipped cream.
      Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake
    • A yellow plate of baked pumpkin donuts coated in cinnamon sugar.
      Baked pumpkin donuts
    • Scoops of pumpkin ice cream in little bowls with pie crust cookies.
      Pumpkin ice cream
    • Serving pumpkin pie on black plates.
      Pumpkin Pie Without Evaporated Milk
    • A plate with a pumpkin muffin split open and smeared with butter, with a cup of coffee on the side.
      Pumpkin Muffins With Streusel Topping
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake

    Apple Season

    • Double crust apple pie loaded with apples.
      Maple Apple Pie
    • Slicing into an Italian apple cake to serve it.
      Old-Fashioned Apple Yogurt Cake
    • Apple jam served on a toasted English muffin
      Cinnamon Apple Jam (no pectin)
    • Apple crumb coffee cake ready to be served with cups of tea, plates and a serrated knife
      Apple Crumble Cake
    • An apple cake baked in a square baking pan.
      Apple Butter Cake with Brandy
    • Apple butter pie stencilled with icing sugar.
      Apple Butter Pie

    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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