White Chocolate Candy Cake How did white chocolate candy cake come about? Well, sometimes the stars align and point out a very good course of action. For months I had accrued various white chocolate novelties: white chocolate peanut butter this, and white chocolate truffles that…Don’t even remind me about the 4 + bags of white…
Samoa Cake
Samoa Cake It is magical, this time of year. And no I’m not talking about Springtime, yet I am very appreciative of the weather. I hate snow with a passion. But I am talking about Girl Scout Cookies. Paying homage to these cookies I made a Samoa Cake. I remember secretly ordering girl scout cookies…
Unicorns and Rainbows Cake
Unicorns and Rainbows Cake Unicorns and Rainbows, funfetti, confetti cake, whatever you call it—something mythically angelic happens when you fold sprinkles into batter. This type of cake is something much more than a colorful cake. This Unicorns and Rainbows cake is an ode to one of my former places of employment—Baked & Wired in Washington…
Macaron French Nougatine
Macaron French Nougatine Some French desserts –like this Macaron French Nougatine —have grown on me. This slow acclimation was long and drawn out process. I do not hate French desserts, I just actively disdain them, that’s all. The culinary world’s love affair with all-that-is-French comes from some logical grounding. France’s upper crust took advantage…
Green Tea Matcha Cake
Green Tea Matcha Cake I know the holidays are now over. It’s hard to have a week of beautiful warm weather during Christmas and then have to face the end of the holidays with a brutal slap-in-the-face 30 degree drop in temperature. Don’t even get me started upon the horrific sight of Christmas trees being…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake Oh how I need to write a love ballad to you! To start, I am very down with Life Equations. The term “life equations” was mentioned by Alex Guarnaschelli in one Food Network’s Guilty Pleasures episodes. Given she was talking about Frito Pie. I honestly feel like this Chocolate Peanut Butter cake falls…
Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
Sour Cream Sugar Cookies Holiday baking, with benevolent cookie giving galore, is when I’m able to try out recipes and compare different doughs. Those receiving my cookies are basically unsuspecting guinea pigs to my confectionery comparisons and trials. I know the holidays are about tradition, but I get sick of using the same recipes with…
Cookie Monster Cake
Cookie Monster Cake Society’s general consensus is that cakes are reserved for special days. That’s exactly how this chocolate cake came about; and I am glad to give it as a gift for my neighbor’s birthday). Hence there are no images of the towering 6-layer chocolate chip cookie and cream filled interior. Derived from Sweetapolita’s…
Drumstick Cake
Drumstick Cake We need to do away with this daylight savings? A commiseration of this sad-sad time of year, I’m pulling out a totem frozen novelty of summer—the drumstick. I spotted the recipe idea on Confession’s of a Cookbook Queen and instantly felt compelled to bake it up. The layer cake recipe is simply Heryshey’s recipe that’s…
Valentine Pink Rainbow Cake
Valentine Pink Rainbow Cake Red velvet seems overrated especially for Valentine’s day. I thought Italian flared dessert was in order for this year’s romantic day. Remember those Italian Rainbow cookies you’d see in the glass displays of bakeries? As pretty as they were, a bite into them would reveal that they are prettier than they…