It’s hot out and you are in the mood for a nice chocolatey cookie, but you do not want to overheat the house. Simple solution, make some Chocolate Log Cookies.
Store bought Leibniz butter cookies are transformed into a delicious chocolate log cookie. All you need is a stove top and you are good to go.
These cookies are best when refrigerated and sliced at serving time. Enjoy!
Are you a vanilla cake lover or a chocolate cake lover? That is a tough question to answer because I love them both. So let’s do the best of both worlds and make a marble cake.
Today we are going to be using loaf pans to make a simple layered cake. Hope you enjoy it! I sure did.
Chocolate Strawberry Cake is built using five different recipes. Sure it may sound complicated, but you do it all the time without thinking about it. Just think when you make a cake you are using at least two different recipes. Here there are five different recipe to deal with. No problems since this is a piece of cake. Hahaha!
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All of these recipe can be made ahead of time so when the assembly time comes it is only a matter of minutes. And it does not take all day.
With a professional cake looking cake, you do not want it to be domed. Trim it off is what you say! So easy when you have the right technique and materials.
I like using cake that has been frozen and removed from the freezer for 15 to 20 minutes. I get less crumbs this way, though it is a little harder slicing.
You have seen those pretty cakes covered with fondant. Sure you can buy colored fondant at the supply store. Purchasing colored fondant is nice because you get the same color from container to container. And if you are going to be using come of the more difficult colors to color – the famous reds and blacks – along with any deeply colored fondant you will find that it can take a lot of food coloring to color your fondant.
This technique will work on just about any type of fondant out there. Purchased or homemade the steps are basically the same. So lets get started.
Sometimes you just do not want to dirty a pastry bag for just a writing or some other reason. Maybe you are using royal icing and want a grease free cone or you are using piping get or thinned icing to do some writing. A quick and easy thing to do is make your own paper cone. It is easy and in no time you will be doing it with your eyes closed.
Nothing say love more than Chocolate Dipped Strawberries. These make a great gift for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, a birthday, Anniversaries and any special occasion.
With just a little fancying up you can take these up a level or two and make you own gourmet chocolate covered strawberries. Give it a try, but a few candy cups and a nice box or two and you have a gift fit for a Queen.
The Best Coconut Walnut Cake is so simple to make, you are going to say where was this recipe all my life. While the walnuts can be omitted, I would not recommend doing that. You can always use a different nut maybe even raisins or apples. The choice is always yours.
Vanilla Sponge cake is light and airy almost sponge like. When I assembly and decorate a sponge cake, I like to make sure I sprinkle some simple syrup on the layers under the icing/filling to moisten the cake. Sponge cakes tend to be on the dry side and this help moisten them up.
Can you make this at home, sure you can. You will find that homemade cakes are much better than box mixes. You know what your ingredients are and best of all no preservatives. Sure it make take a little more than than just opening up a box and adding some eggs, butter and milk, but this is so much better. Follow along as I show you how to make vanilla sponge cake, share my recipe and show you in a video too.
Enjoy.
A good caramel sauce can be used so many different ways. It is great on ice cream. Makes a wonderful drizzle on cakes and cheesecakes. It taste great on its own. Caramel Sauce can be mixed in with any of the buttercreams to add a wonderful caramel flavor to it. You must try this recipe today.
You can easily make this in the home kitchen. All you need is a heavy bottom sauce pot or sauce pan. Make sure you opt for a larger one than you think you will need because as the water starts to boil out it will create many bubbles and rise fairly high in the pan.