A Well-Read Tart

A Food and Book Lover’s Blog

Orange Walnut Bundt Cake

I lied. I said I wasn’t going to post anything new until January. But it’s December 31, so I almost made it. I just had to post this cake recipe because it's the PERFECT dessert for New Year’s Day. Christmas week is drawing to an end, and,...

Gingerbread Cake (Recipe Inspired by N0S4A2)

There's nothing like gingerbread to give you all the Christmas feels. I had to make Gingerbread Cake as the book-inspired recipe for N0S4A2. Had to. Remember that creepy guy Bing? Yeah... he uses gingerbread-scented sevoflurane to gas his victims....

Sock It To Me Cake (Recipe Inspired by AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE)

Sock It To Me Cake is main character Roy’s favorite cake in An American Marriage. His momma makes it for him when he goes to visit her, and the unusual, playful name of the dessert caught my eye as I was reading. However, when it tured out that...

Mint Chocolate Cake (Reciped Inspired by THE MOTHER-IN-LAW)

I really should call this Mint Chocolate Cake the “Hot Mess Cake.” Because that's totally what it looks like until the cake comes out of the oven. It’s just a whole bunch o’ ingredients dumped unceremoniously into a food processor that...

Man Catcher Cake (Inspired by THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO)

This book-inspired recipe was kind of a no-brainer. Evelyn Hugo has seven husbands. Clearly, this woman is a knock-out and needs no help catching a man -- or a woman, for that matter. So, I figured it was only fitting that I should pair my review of...