Double Chocolate Cupcakes
I want to start out by saying that for me, Valentine’s Day is an overrated holiday in which men and women – mostly men – spend too much money on disposable items. The items offer only temporary enjoyment which is more for the recipient’s onlookers like friends and colleagues than themselves. It is a visual [...]
Raspberry Ombre and Coffee Chocolate Overload Cake
In the last few weeks I had a few cake orders which are keeping me busy. The raspberry ombre cake was more for me than for anyone else. I wanted to try an ombre cake so badly. The opportunity presented itself and I took it! The cake was my basic white cake with a vanilla [...]
Chocolate Raspberry Cake
This summer has been beyond hot. I moved to Minnesota because of the famously cold winters (no lie!). I love the cold, the snow and cuddling up with a warm cup of tea or coffee. This summer though is getting to be way too much for me and my desire to have the oven on [...]
Julia Child’s Queen of Sheba Cake
Oh Julia, you do know best. You changed the world of home cooking forever and we are so grateful for it. No one will be able to impact the professional and domestic inspired way of cooking like she did. When I first purchased her very famous book I could barely contain my excitement as every recipe is [...]
Some Simple White Cake Cupcakes
This white cake cupcakes recipe is a white birthday cake recipe that I found and wrote down from an old cookbook at my mother-in-laws. It required a lemon but I did not have any on hand, so I replaced with some vanilla paste and it tinged the cake slightly so I didn’t get that white [...]
Chocolate Ginger Cake with Bourbon Caramel Sauce
Back in October we went to my favorite restaurant for dinner and the dessert of the week was a chocolate ginger cake. After the first bite of this cake I was convinced that I had to try to replicate it. It tasted like Christmas. Yes, I realize this is late for a Christmas cake, but [...]
Apple & Almond Coffee Cake
Usually there is something that inspires me to cook, a memory, an event coming up. This time it was just to get rid of ingredients in my pantry. The bonus is it’s something that my husband can take to work for breakfast with a yogurt. Also, it turned out a lot better than I thought, [...]