This cake is a miracle, and I will tell you why. We had grand plans of making a raspberry mousse filling but ended up with chocolate sour cream frosting. This was unintentional. See, the whipped cream was stabilized with gelatin, which never thickened properly. We went along with the directions, however, but after only a…
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Dark Chocolate Cake with Malted Chocolate Frosting and Toasted Marshmallow Filling
As you can tell from the title, this is one amazing cake. There are so many things to love about it! First, for us, is the toasted marshmallow filling, which is as good as it sounds (partially because it has tiny bits of chewy toasted marshmallow in it). It is so simple…broil some marshmallows and…
Strawberry Swirl Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Pound cake is a favorite in our family. It’s the ideal cake- rich and dense with buttery vanilla flavor that needs no icing and requires minimal effort. Normally a basic pound cake is all that we make (although we occasionally stir in some chocolate chips) but every now and then it’s fun to make something…
Vanilla Sheet Cake
Leah and I come from a background of a cooking/food-loving family- yes, we are Italian! Our aunt and uncle own a restaurant, and another aunt worked as a chef and once cooked for Thomas Keller. All of our family gatherings have pretty awesome food, and Leah and I have enjoyed contributing recently as we have…
Orange Vanilla Bean Cupcakes
Neither of us have mentioned on here much, if at all, that we love to read. If I were to be completely honest, I (Celine) like reading better than cooking. That may come as a surprise since I have a cooking blog! Well, during the past couple of weeks in English we spent some time…
Sour Cream Coffee Cake
When we were younger, we (especially Celine) loved Starbucks’ crumb cake. Who could blame us? It was a yellow cake topped with a thick layer of crumb topping and powdered sugar. While we don’t really eat baked goods from Starbucks too frequently anymore, we did want to make some coffee cake. This recipe isn’t really…
Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Coconut
Cakes are always so much fun to make! While neither of us would necessarily call cake our favorite dessert (we prefer things like ice cream, cheesecake, chocolate chip cookies, and anything citrus…a lemon bar sounds good right now), we love to make them. This cake, however, is fun both to make and to eat. It…
Gooey Cinnamon Squares
A lot of people seem to love gooey butter cake- a layer of cake with a creamy topping that’s baked on. While it always sounded great to us, we never tried it, for several reasons, including the fact that “butter” is part of the title- something about that is slightly off-putting when you are trying…
Apple Cake
This year, our dad’s birthday was two days after Thanksgiving. With all the busy cooking that went into that, and our birthday cake, we wanted to make something simple. We decided to make our grandmother’s apple cake, which has always been a family favorite. The cake batter couldn’t be easier, and the flavor is delicious….
Lavender Lemon Cake
As we mentioned in our last post, Wednesday was our birthday, and we decided to make this cake. Our mom said she felt bad having us make our own cake, but we enjoy making cakes! After a lot of deliberating, we decided on this lavender lemon cake. For those who have never tried lavender in…
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