I think we sometimes get stuck in a mindset that chocolate desserts must be decadent and rich, especially cakes. We also of course prefer our cakes in particular to be striking and elegant. Mousse cakes, layer cakes, glazed bundt cakes, flourless cakes… Well this cake is none of the above. I almost did not share…
Cold-Oven Cream Cheese Pound Cake
When this month’s hostess for my book club asked me to bring dessert, I immediately jumped on it as an opportunity to bake a cake. Cakes are kinda tricky–at least in my home–because it is hard to give away part of a cake (although John’s department and students do receive half-cakes from time to time),…
The Vanilla Option: Vanilla Bean Chiffon Cake
As stated, I made a vanilla option cake to go with my Chocolate Angel Food Cake on Christmas Day. I was originally planning, for a more parallel presentation if nothing else, to serve a vanilla (traditional) angel food cake. but then 2 things happened. First I found such a recipe to be more difficult to…
Chocolate Angel Food Cake
Whew! I’m so full I can barely move and of course after a week of making merry—and eating well–I am once again behind on sharing recipes. I wanted to get this one out fast, because I personally think this would make a fabulous end to a New Year’s Eve meal. It is decadent yet light–which…
Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake
I wanted to wax poetic about this cake–because I truly do feel poetic about it, I’ve made it several times–but I am having trouble. Maybe it is the 5 hours of sleep and Kung Fu Panda in the background robbing me of brain cells. Whatever, the cause, believe me when I say I am not…
Bittersweet Chocolate Mousse Cake For Sammy
The previously un-considered dilemmas that arise with small children can be unexpected and tricky. For example, explaining Nazis to a 4 YO who loves The Sound Of Music. Or why the singer in Jace Everett’s Bad Things wants “to do bad things to you” (that was a hoot of a conversation–“Mommy, this is NOT a…
Spiced Pumpkin Bundt Cake, Preferably Naked
I was torn about whether to post this cake. You always want whatever you post to be your best effort or as nice as you know you could make it. But, knowing that I just made this cake, the soonest I would re-make it is probably next fall. And there is NOTHING wrong with the…
Family Recipes: Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake aka Grandma Ellie’s Favorite Chocolate Loaf Cake
For this month’s Family Recipes event, my sister posted a recipe of mine. I was really floored, completely complimented. But she also took our little event in a brilliant new direction. After all, I have hardly been making Vietnamese Bun my entire life. But I do make it regularly now and she and I talk…
Lesson Learned: Sour Cream Muffin Cakes
I offered to host playgroup today but when I only got a few responses late at night I decided not to bake (this happens in the summer a lot–people out of town, plus we have several newborns in the group). Then, late last night, I read Big Red Kitchen and knew that yes indeed I…
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