You may remember this post where I shared my experiences with a new chocolate cake recipe. This time, I followed the original recipe without any major modifications, greased and lined the pan properly and ended up with two perfect layers of moist chocolate cake. Now the question was, how do I make it even more…
Naked Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Buttercream Frosting {And A Coffee Surprise}
I brought my mom’s tiny 5-inch cake pan with me on my last visit home. Yep, I don’t buy stuff, I lift them from mommy dearest! Since then, I’ve wanted to make a tiny Thumbelina sized cake in it. It has been so long since I took the time to properly frost a cake. I…
Easy Chocolate Muffins, Baking With Kids And A New Venture
Whoa! Do I have your attention with the unusually long and cryptic blog title? Good, read on then. Let’s start with the muffins and the whole ‘baking with kids’ thing first. I feel so lucky that Boy suggests a baking adventure on his days off from school. Lately, he’s been into rainbow-colored cakes or cupcakes…
Chocolate Biscotti (Made With Cocoa Powder)
Cakes, cupcakes and fruit crumbles are my favorite baked treats. Only because they require very little hands-on time apart from mixing up a few ingredients. Any recipe that requires me to handle some sort of dough makes me think twice. I dillydally, toying with the idea in my mind before I get around to actually…
Simply The Best Chocolate Cake
There is a certain kind of craving that can only be satisfied by a rich chocolate dessert. There is something in that dark product from cacao beans that is scientifically known to induce a state of happiness in man. I read in one of Good Housekeeping’s dessert books that unsweetened cocoa powder is the best…