I’ve been in search of chocolate frosting — smooth, creamy, fluffy, deeply chocolatey frosting that stays supple even when cool. This was a recipe that I’ve been tinkering with for some time, and am happy to debut it here. I have had many different types of chocolate frosting – and they mainly fall into one…
Category: Dessert
Chocolate Waffles
Chocolate waffles hot from the iron with a fluffy cloud of whipped cream make for a perfect dessert. Or — if it’s just one of those mornings — a rare breakfast treat. Cocoa powder and bittersweet chocolate add to balanced rich chocolate flavor, with mild sweetness to let ice cream or whipped cream add to…
Banana Cake with Cinnamon Frosting
Here’s a homespun cake for the banana fan. Banana Cake slice This buttermilk moistened banana cake is tender and sweet with warm notes from fragrant cinnamon and topped with crunchy toasted pecans. Banana Cake batter The batter for this cake is thick and fluffy, and bakes into either one nine-inch or two eight-inch layers. This…
Perfect Chocolate Sauce
Here is my version of perfect hot fudge sundae chocolate sauce. It’s chocolatey, mildly sweet, smooth and unctuous without being too rich, bitter, or cloyingly sweet. It also happens to be a very simple and frugal recipe that you can make and use in under an hour. Just measure, mix, boil and snap! . ….
Pecan Snowball Cookies
It’s officially the holidays, and that means I get to make our favorite family cookie: Pecan Snowball Cookies. These petite, snowy-white cookies are crunchy little nuggets of buttery pecan joy. Though there are many recipes for cookies that look like this one, but they are often bland tasting. Years ago my mother in law shared…
Lux Lemon Layer Cake
I needed a cake for a friend’s birthday, and my lemon trees had some beautiful ripe fruit. I imagined a light textured layer cake with bright lemon flavor completed with silky smooth lemon buttercream. This cake was the result: It’s like eating sweet sunshine combined with butter. This is a longer recipe than usual, as…
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