Archive for the ‘Cake Recipes’ Category

Elevating the Ordinary: Mascarpone Cupcakes

February 1, 2010 | Posted as Baking, Cake Recipes at 10:15 am | Comments »

Here’s something I can never seem to tire of: cupcakes. You probably already have favorite chocolate cupcake and yellow cupcake recipes (if not, don’t worry- I’ll share my recipe for those soon enough!), and today I want to share with you another one that will definitely go on your list of favorites. That is, if [...]

Serious(ly good) Cake

July 26, 2009 | Posted as Baking, Cake Recipes at 2:42 pm | Comments »

This, ladies and gentlemen, is serious cake. It isn’t much to look at- especially when the photo was taken with an ultrabad cellphone camera- but the point is that it’s weak-at-the-knees delicious. Rich and gooey and chocolatey and sweet and nutty and… will leave you swooning. It’s chocolate, of course, and like the best of [...]

Chocolate Mousse Cake

March 31, 2009 | Posted as Cake Recipes, Celebrity Cooks, Chocolate at 12:34 pm | Comments »

Before anything else: this cake is not a pretty one. It is at its most basic a recipe for chocolate mousse that you stick in a tin and bake in an oven. But oh my, if you like chocolate, this tastes amazing. It’s light and melts in your mouth, yet is impossibly rich. And because [...]

Cookbook Review: Back of the Box Gourmet

February 9, 2009 | Posted as Cake Recipes, Cookbooks, Cozy Comfort Food Recipes at 1:00 pm | Comments »

Nostalgia never goes out of style- especially in the kitchen. Who of us doesn’t crave the food we were brought up with- whether we got it from our moms, our grandmothers, or our family cooks? And that’s the “why” behind the cookbook Back of the Box Gourmet, an absolute gem of a book I was [...]

Orange icing by James Beard

June 17, 2008 | Posted as Cake Recipes, Recipe at 5:24 pm | (4) Comments »

Try this cake filling recipe by cooking guru James Beard. Ingredients 3/4 cups Orange juice — strained 2 tbs Lemon juice 3/4 cups granulated sugar 1 tb Orange rind — finely grated What’s next Mix the orange juice, lemon juice, sugar and orange rind together and drizzle the mixture over the three still warm cake [...]