Tag Archives: chocolate
Sweet Potato Chocolate Torte with Walnut Custard Filling
An unusual cake that uses mashed sweet potatoes and ground walnuts with eggs for the batter. Filled with a walnut custard and topped with a chocolate glaze, it’s rich and tender but not overpowering. And now it sounds like a skeezy romance novel hero.
Kid’s Cookbooks and Trunchbull Cake
A recipe for “The most scrumptious cake in the entire world” and a roundup of the kid’s cookbooks and recipes I grew up making. Do you have a favorite childhood cookbook or recipe?
Guinness Chocolate Cake and Ice Cream
This is the matured version of the Irish Chocolate Cupcakes I’ve made a few times – it’s been adapted from the Barrington Brewery to Bon Appetit to Smitten Kitchen to … Continue reading
Bananana…. Baking with Bananas
Discount bananas have been inspiring me to bake, but there’s only so much banana bread one family will want to eat. So this includes three recipes: banana bread, banana scones, and banana cake.
Marbled Chocolate Orange Cake
This was one of those cakes that had me struggling not to lick my fingers as I mixed it up, going back for seconds right after the first slice, then … Continue reading
S’Mores Cheesecake
This may not be as “American as apple pie” but it’s close, and a lot less work to put together. I made this last for our community garden’s bake sale, … Continue reading
Mexican Chocolate Chiffon Ice Cream
If I’m going to make homemade ice cream, I don’t want to make something that I can buy in a store, especially if store-bought would generally taste better. But I … Continue reading
Irish Chocolate Cupcakes
I knew I wanted to include chocolate cupcakes for my party – when I found these in a book of recipes from famous international tea rooms, I couldn’t resist the … Continue reading
