Small batch cake recipes, baked the old way
Every cake on Cake Half was baked in Teresa’s kitchen in the small tin first: 6-inch layers, half-sheets, a dozen cupcakes instead of two, and the vintage classics scaled to a table of four.
Classic Recipes
Pound cake, yellow cake, coffee cake: the recipe-box classics, scaled to a 6-inch tin.
Classic Cake Recipes
Chocolate Indulgence
Chocolate layer cakes, lava cakes and the fudge frosting that goes on all of them, in small batches.
Chocolate Cake Recipes
Who bakes Cake Half
Meet Teresa
Teresa’s baking started with a recipe box in a North Carolina kitchen: her grandmother’s handwritten cards, measurements in handfuls, instructions that ended with until it looks right. Those recipes fed twelve. Her table seats four. Cake Half is what happened next – the same cakes, worked out again at half the size, so a 6-inch layer cake or a half-sheet gets baked on a Tuesday instead of saved for Christmas. Every recipe here was made in her kitchen, in the small tin, before it was written down.
Fruit & Fresh
Lemon, strawberry, apple and peach, baked into cakes that are eaten the day they are made.
Fresh Fruit Cakes
Celebration Cakes
Birthday, wedding and holiday cakes for a table of four, so nobody eats leftovers for a week.
Celebration Cake Recipes
Modern & Mini
Cupcakes by the half dozen, mug cakes, cake pops and mini layer cakes for two.
Mini & Small Batch Cakes
Coming soon
The Cake Half recipe box, in print
Forty small batch cakes from the handwritten cards, scaled, tested and photographed for the 6-inch tin. Sign up and you will hear first.