Root beer and chocolate go together like Tegan and Sara and Romy and Michele. Did you know that? It was agreed after tasting, that root beer definitely heightens the chocolate flavor in a twin-sisters-in-a-band way and a BFF kind of way. Here’s the part where my mom stirred the cocoa powder mixture and it bubbled and popped because of the root beer. It was pretty and poppy. Can you believe those bubbles are really real? Instead…
I’ve been busy lately. Busy hanging up jackets and coats. I’ve even gone to Target wearing yoga pants. Stacey London would’ve totally judged me. But what am I supposed to do? I go from cleaning to buying shower curtain liners to painting. I just can’t change into a prom dress for Target. It’s too toasty for that. So this is the first baked good to come out of the new kitchen. It dirtied just the…
Consider these the hip cousin of the petit four. Or just consider it tasty, and slice it into big pieces instead. Laura over at Rather Be Baking knows what’s up. I believed her when she said to trust her on this cake. She’s totally right; it’s the best. This is just the perfect weeknight cake. It comes together quickly, in one bowl and bakes up in only 30 minutes. Chances are you’ll want to keep eating…
I like that this cake kinda looks like a super huge stack of pancakes. I like that there’s strawberry jam keeping it real between six layers of sugar cookie-esque goodness. I like that at the end I get to dust it with powdered sugar. I really like the dusting with powdered sugar part. It maybe doesn’t look like it here, but those guys are the same size. I weighed them all on my tiny scale…
Sometimes all I want to talk about is ice cream and puppies. Sometimes all I think about is dessert, and sometimes I fall in love with a blog (like sprinklebakes) and can’t stop thinking about techniques. Next thing you know, I’m making strawberry shortcake sushi. It’s my brother’s birthday. And since my mom’s in town he wanted us to make brunch (I mean lunch) for him. My mom made sandwich-rolls aka rearranged cheeseburgers and potato…
I had four bananas that were a way too freckled to function. They needed a home. So I figured why not put them in a cake and top them with the dreamiest frosting ever and call it a snack. Do me a favor and try not to be as impatient as I was about frosting this cake, ok? On top of it being super hot out, and hotter in my kitchen, this cake wasn’t completely…
I’m just so glad strawberries and rhubarb are bffs. I’d be sad if they had a falling out. It was hot yesterday. Hot and gross and my hair was wavy against it’s will. My fridge let out a gusty wind of cold air every time I opened it, just to show off the fact that it was nice and chilly in there and I was roasting out here. I wore a hat to cover my…
I brought this cake two and a half hours away to be the post-bbq dessert on Memorial Day. All of the mushrooms survived the trip. I thought that was nice of them. I’ve been wanting a reason to make meringue mushrooms ever since I knew they existed. This woodgrain cake gave me the motivation to finally do it! Would you care to have this piece? I’d totally share if Jake and I hadn’t finished the…
I know that I’m not very good at washing dishes. I know that I always want crêpes for dinner. I know that I don’t like construction people making a racket at 7:00am. And I REALLY know that Mondays are better with cake. This cake is zesty and bright. Basically this cake will punch you in the face with dreamy and fresh lemony flavors. You might want to split a piece with your total BFF. You might…
I have a new oven! So I have cake! Have you ever been to a cake wedding? This may as well have been one. A lemon cake and some blackberry sauce eloped, and nobody judged them. Have you ever eaten blackberries and felt like you were getting bullied by seeds? Well, don’t bother worrying about that with this delicious sauce topping this lemony cake. After blending the sauce ingredients, you simply strain it through a…