We were invited to a family BBQ this weekend, so I decided to make some Fourth of July cupcakes. They are just plain vanilla cupcakes, but I decided to revisit a technique I used when I made my wife’s unicorn birthday cake a few years back and color swirl the frosting and the cake. I […]
I made an Espresso Martini Trifle for my wife birthday this year. For some reason, she decided she wanted a trifle, something I’d not only never made, but quite possibly never even eaten before. We are on a bit of an espresso martini kick, so that seemed like the perfect flavor. A trifle is often
I made a Chocolate Raspberry Birthday Cake this year for my wife’s birthday. Chocolate is her favorite and she requested some sort of berry or fruit with it. I originally found this recipe for Drunken Cherry Chocolate Cake that I intended to use, but I found it impossible to find cherries in the middle of
I made an Apple Marzipan Tart for my in-law’s dual birthday celebration. They decided that my mother-in-law would pick the theme this year and she requested apple. I’d been looking for an excuse to make something from Jurgen Krauss’ (of GBBO) book The German Baking Book, and found this recipe. The Marzipan As you might
I made a Coconut Cheesecake for my father-in-law for Father’s Day. Cheesecake and/or coconut are usually his go-to requests when I’m making something, so I decided to combine them. I used this recipe from King Arthur Flour. It calls for coconut milk powder which is an ingredient I’d never used before. I have used milk