Nolan’s Birthday
My son's first birthday party, celebrated with homemade breadsticks and hummus, stuffed peppers, and a fabulously messy devil's food white-out cake.
Tag Archives: cake
Happy Valentino
The February 2009 Daring Baker's challenge celebrated Valentine's Day with a decadent flourless Chocolate Valentino cake. Mine was a splurge of bittersweet Valrhona chocolate and peanut butter frozen yogurt.
Daring Bakers Go Nuts
The July 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured a filbert gateau with praline buttercream and a ganache glaze. It gave me a chance to play with caramel and piping.
Gooey Chocolate Cakes
Dorie Greenspan's gooey chocolate cakes are a new mama's best friend---a decadent, but super-easy dessert that can be prepped in advance.
If You Like Piña Coladas…
The May 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured an almost "albino" version of the traditional dark chocolate opéra cake. My variation had a piña colada theme, involving pineapple curd and mousse, coconut buttercream, and a garnish…
Cara Cara Creamsicle Cake
The March 2008 Daring Bakers challenge was Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake. My variation, served at my baby shower, was a creamsicle cake with cherry preserves, Cara Cara orange buttercream, and candied orange slices for…
First-Week Cake
My preferred cake for my own birthday, my mom gave me a hand baking this moist, chocolatey New Orleans sheet cake to celebrate the birth of my son.
Consider Yourself Warned
A shockingly decadent version of my husband's favorite birthday cake, this towering dessert from the Junior's cookbook sandwiches an entire New York-style cheesecake between layers of fluffy German chocolate cake. Now that's what I'm talking…
Old Lady Hips
A one-pan vegan devil's-food cake that satisfies our chocolate cravings in a hurry, especially with a slathering of buttery chocolate frosting on top (What can I say? We will never be vegans...)
Yule (B)Logging, Part 2: Sawing Logs
The December 2007 Daring Bakers challenge featured a traditional yule log, or buche de noel, which is decorated to emulate an actual log. My "log" was embellished with meringue mushrooms, marzipan ivy and acorns, ganache…
Yule (B)Logging, Part 1: Logrolling
The December 2007 Daring Bakers challenge featured a traditional yule log, or buche de noel, which is decorated to emulate an actual log. My version used a chocolate genoise, and chestnut and dark chocolate buttercreams.
BoSox Cream Pies
The October 2007 Daring Bakers challenge featured Bostini cream pies, a miniature version of the classic Boston cream pie perfectly suited for a Red Sox World Series win. My version used our favorite pairing of…
Icy Olive Oil and Upside Down Apricots
An apricot-almond upside down cake with olive oil ice cream, both of which I found attractive but remarkably unpalatable. Good thing my husband enjoyed them!
Strawberry Mirror Cake: The Challenge
The July 2007 Daring Bakers challenge featured a strawberry mirror cake, layers of genoise buried in strawberry Bavarian cream and topped with a show-stopping strawberry gelatin mirror.
Strawberry Mirror Cake: The Prequel
The July 2007 Daring Bakers challenge featured a strawberry mirror cake, layers of genoise buried in strawberry Bavarian cream and topped with a show-stopping strawberry gelatin mirror. I barely reached the farmer's market in time…
SHF #32: Carrot Cake Cravings
This moist, spicy cake is filled with bits of carrot, apple, and hazelnut, and topped with a gooey honeyed cream cheese frosting.
Breaking the Habit
Crumb cake and banana pancakes with hazelnut mascarpone cream are just the ticket for a leisurely anniversary breakfast (or insert your special occasion of choice).
Soul-Saving Almond Cake
I’ve made this cake a few times now. The first time was while Jeremy was in school, and I brought it to a friend’s house to share after dinner. It was absolutely divine, extremely moist…
German Chocolate Cake
Jeremy inevitably requests a German chocolate cake when I ask what sort he wants for his birthday. I tried out a new recipe this year, and we were pleased with the result, even if it…