Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting and Chocolate Ganache

I have a confession to make. I don’t usually like cake. Cookies, yes; brownies, absolutely; ice cream, of course. But cake? Cake is usually dry and bland and the only part that’s worth anything is the frosting. Assuming of course that it’s not the typical bakery frosting which tastes of [...]

Banana Cake

If you pay any attention at all to food blogs (or at least those on baking), you’ve most likely heard of Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: From My Home To Yours book. There’s even a group dedicated to working their way through the book. How could I not check out the book and see what [...]

Ginger Cake

So I’m going to go ahead and admit my baking disaster. Ginger cake did me in.
The recipe came from Baking Boot Camp: Five Days of Basic Training at the Culinary Institute of America. The book was very interesting, although I did have some real complaints about it. But the baked [...]

Toll House Crumbcake

Yes, this is a Nestle recipe. I tried it because:

I had all the ingredients
It had chocolate

What more is there? Super easy too, which is always nice.
Topping:

1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened (Of course I used butter. Der.)
1/2 cup chopped nuts
2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ® TOLL [...]

Milk Chocolate Bundt Cake

The recipe came from the Taste of Home Baking cookbook
1 milk chocolate candy bar, (7 ounces) (I used semi-sweet because that’s what I had)
1/2 cup chocolate syrup (I used dark chocolate syrup because that’s what I had)
1 cup butter, softened
1-1/2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
confectioners’ sugar, optional

The chocolate. [...]

Spice Cake with Maple Frosting

I’ve been in a baking kind of mood lately, much to the delight of my official taste-testers, my husband & Jennifer. On the agenda this week: spice cake. I mostly used a Taste of Home recipe, although I did not use the suggested Seven-Minute Frosting (which I hate). I also added a teaspoon of [...]