Add shredded cheddar to a corn pound cake with whole kernels of sweet, yellow corn. You can turn a corn pound cake even more savory by adding freshly chopped jalapeños to the batter.

Somewhere in the world (I like to think it was Berkeley), in some place in time (evidence suggests it was the 1970s), there was a human being who decided to put grated carrots in cake batter!

For that, I skipped melted chocolate in favor of cocoa powder. Melted chocolate tends to dry out cake batter, and unless you’re using 100 percent unsweetened chocolate, adding bar chocolate also ...