Race-car Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake with Chocolate Fudge Icing This German Chocolate sauerkraut cake is a family recipe; it originated from my aunt-in-law, who gave the recipe to my mother-in-law. It has made many birthday cakes. This recipe fits a 9 inch round or square pan nicely — or any Wilton character pan like the race-car, …
It is my birthday today; I can’t think of any better ways to celebrate other than baking at home and play house with the new oven. I have very ripe bananas begging to be used. So, I looked up Big Oven (an iPhone app) since I was curious about banana cookies! Recipe: Chocolate Chip Banana …
Disclaimer: I did not follow any recipes; I weighed everything and guessed a ratio between sugar, fat and flour. Follow my creation at your own risk! Makes two small loaves in the toaster oven. Ingredients: 1 cup butter, room temp 6 to 8 oz sugar, 2 tsp cinnamon 5 mashed bananas 4 eggs beaten Vanilla …
If you have a plain/vanilla sponge cake recipe, if you reduced some flour and added some cocoa powder, it becomes chocolate sponge cake! In my previous post, we saw that chocolate ganache was used as a filling. This Monday, we had the challenge of coating it with ganache. To make it glossy, the instructor added …
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Cake decorating is almost like scrap-booking, except that it is completely edible. I love how simple it is to be creative, as long as you are exposed to the proper basic techniques. NAIT offers exceptional decorating classes — BAK 400 supercedes the classes offered by Wilton at Michael’s. Cakes, icing and filling were all provided …
It has been just over a year since my last entry! My collection of cookbooks has shamelessly grown since then. Also, I have learnt to be very careful with preparing onions around our new puppy. Tip: always keep a Benadryl tablet ready. The amount of free time has diminished significantly, so it was a matter …
