Category Archives: Cake
Chocolate Cake
Happy birthday Elise! Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting Recipe adapted from Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented, By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. Ingredients For the classic chocolate cake 3/4 cup dark unsweetened cocoa powder 2/3 cup sour cream 2 … Continue reading
Chocolate Cake with Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Happy birthday Jess! Good food, good company and cake. Not a bad Friday night at all. Sweetapolita is an expert on Swiss meringue buttercream frosting – I highly recommend you visit her site before making it. And visit YouTube for … Continue reading
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake
This recipe is my new favourite chocolate cake recipe. Chocolate cake with mousse-like chocolate frosting and dark chocolate ganache drizzled on top. I think I’ll tweak the recipe a little further but it’s pretty darn good just the way it … Continue reading
Chocolate Cake with Coffee Buttercream Frosting
This recipe is from Baked Explorations. I just love this cookbook. I love both of the Baked cookbooks. If you haven’t already got these two cookbooks on your shelf I highly recommend you fix this. If you like cake. And … Continue reading
Mini Hawaiian Carrot Cake and Work in Progress
What’s been going on in Katie’s Kitchen? Lots of healthy eating. And of course a little baking. This weekend was two Hawaiian carrot cakes for my buddy Michelle’s birthday. The restaurant we went to wouldn’t allow BYO cakes so I made … Continue reading
Filed under Cake, Recipe, Work in Progress
German Chocolate Cake
A few years ago, when we were newly married and had just moved in to our first home together hubby baked me a birthday cake. Looking back, it was my first homemade birthday cake in quite a few years. He … Continue reading
Chocolate Cake with Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting
My fascination with layer cakes continues, this time it’s a chocolate cake. I made this cake for no other reason than just to make a cake. With all the sewing and crochet projects I have going on, sometimes it’s nice to … Continue reading
Burnt Sugar Bundt Cake with Caramel Rum Frosting
Cakes with long names sound impressive, however bundt cakes remind me of school fetes and bake sales. There is something old-fashioned about them. To me, they say homemade cake. According to Wikipedia, bundt cakes took off in the ’60s. I bought a 24cm bundt pan to make … Continue reading
Hawaiian Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
The week of hubby’s birthday continued today with another cake and another celebration. I used Sweetapolita’s cake recipe and also her cream cheese frosting recipe. The only change I made to the cake was I used gluten-free flour. Honestly, no one would … Continue reading
Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Happy 40th birthday hubby! I hope all of your birthday wishes come true, just like your wish for yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
