Glazed Lemon Snack Cake [+Video]

A bright lemon snack cake that is dense but moist, soaked in a lemon syrup and topped with a lemon glaze. This one is for all you lemon lovers out there!

This recipe started out as a white cake but I couldn’t resist the lemon and ended up with this tangy, delicious beauty. I haven’t regretted one second of it! In fact, I’ve never regretted any lemon cake recipe I’ve ever made!

A snack is a small amount of food that you eat between meals, so if this is a snack cake recipe, you can technically have at least two, if not three, pieces in one day. One between breakfast and lunch, another between lunch and dinner, and since it’s a cake, one more for dessert! Follow my logic there? Ha!

What Ingredients are Needed for Glazed Lemon Snack Cake?

There is lemon in all parts of this glazed cake…lemon lemon lemon! We will start with the ingredients for the cake and then a few more for the syrup and glaze. Let me just state right up front is that you will want to have about 5-6 lemons to make all the components of the this recipe. Here is your grocery list:

Cake

• Dry Ingredients: All Purpose Flour, Baking Powder, Sugar, Salt and Lemon Zest
• Wet Ingredients: Butter, Vegetable Oil, Eggs, Milk, Vanilla, Lemon Extract, Almond Extract and Lemon Juice

Lemon Syrup

• Butter: adds richness
• Sugar: adds the sweetness and helps thicken the syrup
• Lemon Juice: adds flavor and tartness
• Vanilla: adds flavor

Lemon Glaze

• Powdered Sugar: adds sweetness
• Lemon Juice (or Milk): If you want bright white glaze, use milk. If you want more lemon flavor, go with the lemon juice.

The measurements for each ingredient are listed in the recipe card below.

How to Make a Glazed Lemon Snack Cake

I’m going to walk you through the steps of making this cake. It is super simple and you’re going to love the bright lemon flavor in every step. Let’s start with the cake…

Cake

• Preheat the oven and prepare an 8×8″ square baking pan with parchment.
  • PRO TIP: Spray the pan, line it with parchment and then spray again.
• Mix the wet ingredients in a large bowl.
• Add the mixture of dry ingredients and mix until there are no big clumps.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake.
• While the cake is baking, prepare the syrup.

Lemon Syrup

• Combine all the ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat until the better melts. Stir to combine.
• When the cake is finished, poke it everything with a toothpick.
• Pour the lemon syrup all over the top.
• Let the cake cool completely (at least an hour) before adding the glaze.

Traeger Smoked Ribs

These Traeger ribs are coated in a bold dry rub and smoked to mouth-watering perfection! They fall right off the bone and are perfect for picnics and BBQs!

The Best Traeger Ribs Recipe

When I went out to South Carolina to meet Cade’s family, he took me to a traditional southern restaurant to try real southern BBQ for the first time. It was delicious!

I couldn’t believe that a dry rub was all that they needed as I’d only had ribs slathered in sauce, but more important than that, they were falling off of the bone. The tenderness could not be beat! I was sold! Since then we’ve tested and tested rib recipes and this one is one of the best smoked rib recipes ever.

We have several rib recipes on the blog that we love, like our slow cooker Asian sticky ribs or our smoky BBQ Instant Pot ribs. They are all different in cooking techniques and flavors, but this is our first smoked ribs recipe — you’re going to love it!

Make a batch of homemade BBQ sauce, and get ready for your mouth to water, your fingers to get messy, and for these Traeger smoked ribs to become a regular on your menu! They are the best ribs I’ve ever had!

Traeger Smoked Pork Ribs Ingredients 

These Traeger pork ribs are flavored both with a dry rub and additional flavorings that are added halfway through the smoking time. A dry rub is simply a blend of dry ingredients that gets rubbed on meat before smoking or grilling. 

Here’s what you’ll need to make the best smoked ribs: 

• Pork Ribs 
• Smoked Paprika
• Dark Brown Sugar
• Black Pepper
• Garlic Powder
• Cumin
• Kosher Salt
• Cayenne
• Honey
• Dijon Mustard
• Apple Cider 

Keep scrolling to the recipe card down below to find the measurements needed for each ingredient.

What Are the Best Ribs for Smoking?

We prefer St. Louis style ribs for smoking, but baby back ribs would also work great. St. Louis style ribs cook fast and have great flavor. Baby back ribs are meatier and may take a little longer to cook to a safe temperature. Spare ribs also work, but they tend to have less meat on them and will need even less time to smoke.

How to Smoke Ribs

We’ve given detailed instructions on how to make smoked pork ribs in the recipe card below. Are you ready for tender ribs that melt in your mouth?? Here are the basics to mastering this Traeger ribs recipe: 

1. Combine the smoked ribs rub ingredients in a small bowl and set it aside.
2. Mix together the mustard and apple cider and brush it all over both sides of the ribs (be sure to remove the silver skin first!).
3. Then, generously

Grilled Flank Steak- My Favorite Balsamic Marinade

There’s nothing quite like a perfect grilled steak and so I’m sharing my secrets on Grilled Flank Steak and my favorite balsamic marinade. 

We went over to one of our friends’ home the other night for dinner. We brought the meat and salad and they supplied side and dessert (oh my gosh it was the most delicious strawberry shortcake. A true favorite of mine!)

I got this recipe from a girl I went to Elementary and Junior High School with. Fast forward 5,000 years, we became friends on facebook and the rest is history! 

Anyway, this is hands down our new favorite way to cook flank steak. If there is one meat recipe you try from me this weekend, make it this one. You will love it forever.

What is Flank Steak?

Flank steak is a somewhat tough but lean cut of beef that is long and flat. It is still quite flavorful but it mostly benefits from a marinade that tenderizes the meat.

Prepared this way, marinated, cooked quickly at high heat, and thinly sliced, flank steak practically melts in your mouth.

What’s in the Marinade?

At first glance, this flank steak recipe might look like a lot of ingredients, but you’ll likely have most of them in your pantry or fridge already. Here is everything you will need…

• Soy Sauce– This adds a lot of flavor and a touch of salt to balance out the sweetness in the marinade.
• Oil– Vegetable is what we use, but you could use olive oil.
• Dark Brown Sugar– Dark brown sugar gives a touch of sweet and balances the salty of the soy sauce, but we prefer dark brown sugar to add a little more depth of flavor.
• Worcestershire Sauce– Umami is the flavor you forget about. Yes, there’s sweet, salty, bitter, sour but did you know umami is that earthy goodness? Worcestershire enhances that in a beef marinade.
• Dijon Mustard–

S’mores Sliders [+Video]

Looking for a fun twist on the classic s’mores? Try making s’mores sliders! These bite-sized treats offer a unique and delicious way to enjoy the classic campfire dessert.

All the classic s’more flavors, gooey marshmallows, melty chocolate and crunchy graham cracker, all loaded up between two sweet buttery Hawaiian rolls. And the best news…you can enjoy it any time of year because they bake right in the oven. No campfire needed!

I had a bag of Hawaiian rolls in the freezer that I needed to use. I wanted to try something new and not your typical savory slider. The idea for a s’mores version just popped into my head one day, and oh my gosh, I kid you not, the family went nuts over them!!!!! Way better than a regular smores imho! Dessert sliders are totally my thing now!

Ingredients Needed to Make S’mores Sliders

You only need 5 ingredients to make this totally irresistible easy s’mores dessert! You’ll need the usual trio…grahams, chocolate and mallows, then just two more items and you’re set. Here are the details:

• Hawaiian Sweet Rolls
• Hershey Bars
• Large Marshmallows
• Butter
• Graham Cracker Crumbs

The measurement for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make S’mores Sliders

This might be the most quick and easy smores dessert you’ll ever make. It’s just a few simple steps and some time baking in the oven, and then you can dig in! An irresistible dessert for a crowd in under a half hour! Here are the basic steps:

• Prep: Preheat the oven 350° F, brush the bottom of a 9 x 13 baking dish with melted butter, and sprinkle graham crackers all over it.
• Cut: Using a sharp bread knife, cut the full sheet of rolls in half and then place the bottom half in the baking sheet.
• Layer: Cover the bottom rolls with a later of chocolate bars followed by a layer of marshmallows.
• Top: Place the lid of the rolls on top and pour the rest of the butter over the top of the rolls, using a pastry brush to spread the butter all over the rolls.
• Sprinkle: Using the remaining graham cracker crumbs, sprinkle them all over the top of the buttery rolls.
• Bake: Cover baking dish with foil and bake for 10 minutes. Then

With an abundance of sweet ripe berries, fresh green spinach, chewy pasta, and a bright and flavorful light balsamic dressing, this strawberry spinach salad is an unexpected and delicious pasta salad that is certain to become one of your family’s new favorites.

Strawberry Spinach Salad

This is not your average spinach pasta salad. With strawberry season on its way (and blueberry season not far behind), this strawberry and spinach salad should be on your radar as you plan your summer meals. It is the perfect light lunch or side dish for a summertime dinner.

In the abundance of pasta salad recipes, there’s something especially irresistible about the sweet bite of berries in this particular dish. I often use a combination of strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries for a uniquely delicious combination of flavors and textures.

A sprinkle of goat cheese adds a salty, savory tang that ties all the flavors in this salad together. I’ve used both honey goat cheese and regular goat cheese in this recipe and they were both delicious.

Strawberries are the ultimate sweet bite in many of our favorite recipes. I’m always amazed by how much flavor strawberries add to a simple salad. As it turns out, pasta salad is no exception!

While I often use a combination of blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries in this particular strawberry spinach pasta salad, if you don’t have all those types of berries you can easily substitute with all of one kind of berry.

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