How to make the perfect chocolate cake: Purchase Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh’s new cookbook, Sweet. This cookbook is a work of art. Alluring exotic fruits and colors splash and ripple across each page, but if you are not in the mood for a fruit dessert, you might be in the mood for the dark…
Category: Cake
Chocolate Peanut Butter Layer Cake
Our brother Luke turns sweet 16 during the first week of September, and since we’ll be away at college on the actual day, we decided to celebrate early with an ultra-sweet dessert. After looking through our many cookbooks and baking books, he gave a pretty low-maintenance request: something with chocolate and peanut butter. We’d had…
Berry-topped Buttermilk Cake
Ever since we made a wedding cake last summer, we’ve been meaning to blog about the buttermilk cake recipe we used. It’s by far our favorite cake recipe, not only because it is superbly delicious (because it really is!), but also because it holds up well to frostings and fillings and slices like a dream….
Raspberry Chocolate Layer Cake
Sorry for all the silence here recently! The summer has been flying by and we haven’t had quite as much time to cook and blog as we like. Since we’re both recovering from wisdom tooth surgery this week, it’s the perfect time for us to share some recipes that we’ve neglected to post about. Anyway,…
Glazed Cranberry Lemon Cake
It feels so good to be home for Christmas! Getting back into the kitchen has been one of the best parts (and just being home in general!). Leah and I got home pretty late Wednesday night, and Thursday we looked around the kitchen to see what we had and noticed there was a bag of…
Midnight Pumpkin Layer Cake
Happy belated Thanksgiving! It’s been so long since we’ve published a blog post here. Since we left for college, we sadly have not had access to a kitchen (I can’t wait to be an upperclassmen when I have a kitchen in my dorm!). College has been going really well, but it was wonderful going home…
Cherry Chip Cake
Even though maraschino cherries definitely have a strange color, I (Leah) really enjoy them on ice cream sundaes and in Shirley Temples. Since I love these cherries so much, I was immediately drawn to this cake recipe when I saw it months ago. Celine and I hadn’t made it until now, though, because some people…
Gooey Butter Cake
I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day with their moms/grandmoms! We had a very nice day and made a special cake that we will be blogging about later this week. I meant to blog about this last week as a Mother’s Day brunch treat, but things got very busy with AP tests and a…
Meyer Lemon Pudding Cake
How is it possible that March is starting tomorrow? There are only two months of high school left, which feels crazy. This school year has just blown away with a gust of college essays, piles of homework, and hours spent at activities. We have a long Easter break and have a senior capstone (job shadowing)…
Banana Cupcakes with Nutella Buttercream Frosting
When we make cupcakes for our family, we typically pipe frosting on a few of them for blog pictures and then just spread it on with an icing spatula for the rest. Of course, when we are bringing cupcakes to an event, we pipe the frosting on all of them! While piping frosting itself is…
We Like Two Cook 