This coffee flavored cake is truly for coffee lovers. The coffee flavors both the cake and the frosting, cutting the sweetness without detracting from the flavor. But you gotta like coffee. A lot. Luckily, we do, so this is a very popular cake in our house.

Coffee Flavored Cake

Our friend Tom introduced us to this cake last year and I couldn’t get it out of my head. His version started with a cake mix, and it was truly irresistible. So, I challenged myself to recreate it from scratch. This is truly a coffee lover’s dream come true.

As much as I love a great coffee cake -which is typically made without a bit of coffee in it, but served with coffee- this is a cake for the coffee lover. Coffee flavored cake topped with fluffy coffee frosting? I very happily make and eat this cake as often as possible.

Coffee Flavored Cake Recipe

To make this little piece of coffee heaven, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• instant coffee
• water
• brown sugar
• white sugar
• vegetable or olive oil
• eggs
• vanilla extract
• all purpose flour
• baking powder
• salt
• coffee frosting

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As fluffy as a summer cloud, this intense coffee frosting is for true coffee lovers! Top chocolate cake, coffee cake, vanilla cupcakes, or sandwich between your favorite cookies.

This is a coffee lover’s dream come true.

Coffee Frosting

In our family, we love coffee – a lot. We also love cake. And we take our frostings seriously. This coffee-flavored frosting is always a great choice for chocolate cake, naturally, since coffee and chocolate go so well together.

But don’t stop there! It makes a killer filling between two cookies of just about any type. If you’d drink a cup of coffee with that cookie, you can frost it with coffee frosting. From 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies to Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies, we have so many options for cookies here.

Chocolate Chip Blondies are heavenly when topped with this frosting too. Pour a cup of coffee and let’s frost something!

Coffee Flavored Frosting

To make this coffee-fanatic fantasy frosting, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• instant coffee
• water
• butter
• powdered sugar
• vanilla
• heavy cream

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Toasted coconut ice cream is fool-proof sweet, creamy coconut vanilla ice cream with the nutty goodness of freshly toasted coconut. It’s perfection in simplicity in ice cream form, friends.

Toasted Coconut Ice Cream

To make this coconut lover’s ice cream, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• heavy cream
• whole milk
• sugar
• kosher salt
• vanilla extract
• coconut extract
• toasted coconut

The most popular question I get is whether it’s possible to make ice cream without a machine. The answer is YES. You can make ice cream without a machine. Find the full directions here!

With over 100 ice cream recipes here to choose from, there’s sure to be an ice cream for everyone! If you’re new to making ice cream, the best and easiest vanilla ice cream is a great place to start.

These are my favorite inexpensive containers for storing ice cream. They’re perfect for gifting (who doesn’t love homemade ice cream?) storage, re-using, etc. I write the flavors on the lids with a sharpie and it washes off with dish soap.

I have more ice cream scoops than I can keep track of at this point and I definitely play favorites. This ice cream scoop does the best job ever of cutting through firm ice cream and still delivers a pretty scoop. It gets bonus points for being one of the least expensive scoops I own as well.

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Learn how to unlock intense flavor, crisp texture, and beautiful golden brown color when you learn how to toast coconut. Toasting coconut gives it a nuttiness, sweetness, and complexity that dried coconut lacks – and it’s so easy to do, too!

How to Toast Coconut

Previously I relied on toasting coconut in the oven and in the microwave. Those methods work as well, but lack some of the control of the stovetop method.

The stovetop is my favorite for being able to closely watch and delivering the extra crispy bits. Since I love the crispy bits the most, this method wins for me every time now.

And once you have had freshly toasted coconut, the world is your oyster! Anywhere you’d use plain coconut in a dessert, swap in the toasted coconut for added oomph!

Use it in recipes like Coconut Cookie Bars: chocolate and toasted coconut stuffed inside chewy blondies, could any dessert possibly make me happier? Or sub it for the sweetened coconut flakes in Coconut Rice Krispie Treats for a seriously irresistible twist on classic rice krispie treats.

How to Make Toasted Coconut

To make toasted coconut, you’ll need the following items:

• non-stick skillet
• sweetened coconut flakes
• heat-proof spatula or wooden spoon
• plate

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Jam packed with cookie pieces, toffee bits, coconut, peanut butter cups, pecans, and more, this creamy vanilla kitchen sink ice cream is bursting at the seams with deliciousness.

Kitchen Sink Ice Cream

The other day, while making a batch of Kitchen Sink cookies, my friend Lynne asked if I’d tried making a Kitchen Sink Ice Cream. Challenge accepted, my friend, and THANK YOU for the suggestion!

This is fully loaded, couldn’t cram more in there, exploding with awesomeness, creamy vanilla ice cream as filled as can be with cookie pieces, toffee bits, toasted coconut, peanut butter cups, pecans, and whatever else you might possibly want to add.

The most popular question I get is whether it’s possible to make ice cream without a machine. The answer is YES. You can make ice cream without a machine. Find the full directions here!

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