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Chocolate Raspberry Cake. Chocolate Raspberry Cake – moist chocolate cake layered with raspberry jam, topped with raspberry cheesecake frosting and fresh red raspberries.

Chocolate Raspberry Cake

A new layer cake recipe by our contributor, Tessa Huff. For the past decade or so, I’ve tried to make homemade treats for Valentine’s Day. I can recall the failed DIY candy bars, the blobby, hollow “heart-shaped” macarons, the wet, oozing chocolate-dipped strawberries, and even the year our kitchen was packed away in moving boxes and my husband and I scarfed down an entire bag of conversation hearts. Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Cake + my best tips for drippy cakes — Style Sweet CA.

Classic Chocolate CakeIngredients– 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour– 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder– 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda– 1/4 teaspoon baking powder– 2 teaspoons instant espresso powder– 1/2 teaspoon salt– 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon canola oil– 1 cup sugar– 1 egg + 1 egg yolk– 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract– 3/4 cup milk– 1/2 cup warm water 1.

Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Cake + my best tips for drippy cakes — Style Sweet CA

Preheat over to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 6-inch cake pans and set aside. 2. Sift together all of the dry ingredients (not the sugar) and set aside. Dark Chocolate Cupcakes. Chocolate and earl grey london fog layer cake. As my time in San Francisco comes to a year, I find myself more and more impatient.

chocolate and earl grey london fog layer cake

San Francisco has a lot to offer, but all the horror stories that you hear about the high rents, the tech bros, and the homelessness issues are also true. It's incredibly easy to get caught in the grit and the grime of the city, allowing it to overshadow everything else. Is that too negative? Chocolate cupcakes with matcha green tea frosting.

This morning i got off the star ferry at hong kong island. i was with mum and stoop and we were winding our way through the walkways as i texted aziz to let him know we'd be there for the day. i couldn't hardly wait to take mum and stoop to eat sugar-coated pork buns and mini cakes at ms. b's cakery. we were gonna go to yardbird, i was gonna show them the escalator. it was going to be the best day ever!

chocolate cupcakes with matcha green tea frosting

And then suddenly god was singing, in his best taylor swift voice, "we (bam!) Are never ever everrrr getting back togetherrrrrr!!! " and eggboy had one foot out the door on his way to pick up wheat seed. and mumbles the penguin was giving me stuffed animal eye from his seat by the window, while beyond him the sun and the evergreens giggled in my direction. Hummingbird High - A Desserts and Baking Food Blog in Portland, Oregon: Blueberry Brownies. I am week four into my kitchen remodel.

Hummingbird High - A Desserts and Baking Food Blog in Portland, Oregon: Blueberry Brownies

What does that mean? That I've been without a kitchen for nearly a month now. Blueberry Brownies. Perfect Avocado Brownies with Cinnamon and Blueberries (vegan) Vegan, optional Gluten, Refined Sugar and Oil Free This is such a momentous day.

Perfect Avocado Brownies with Cinnamon and Blueberries (vegan)

I finally, finally perfected avocado brownies. Celebrate with me! It’s been a long and arduous journey, but we made it. If you follow me on instagram you will have seen the highs and lows, the almost perfect and the completely ruined brownies that came before these mighty ones today. But seriously. I’ve made a few healthy brownies on this blog before. They shouldn’t taste like banana or almonds or orange or any other such nonsense! My experiments started to take a turn for the awesome when I bought My Darling Lemon Thyme‘s new cookbook.

Over a series of experiments I replaced the olive oil with avocado to squeeze in those healthy fats, and replaced the combination of gluten-free flours with wholemeal wheat. Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies. Coffee and chocolate are a great combination, and small amounts of coffee appear in recipes for all kinds of chocolate desserts.

Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies

Coffee is used to bring out some of the darker, roastier notes in chocolate and make chocolate desserts taste even richer. As a coffee fan, sometimes I want coffee to share the spotlight a little bit. Neopolitan Melting Moments. The other day, my usually unromantic boyfriend of many, many years came home from work with a bunch of my favourite flowers.

Neopolitan Melting Moments

My first question to him was, "Did you do something bad? ". Which is quite sad now that I think about it. But it's been a while since I've gotten flowers. He's not one for romantic gestures, he hates Valentine's days and is only sort of enthusiastic about anniversaries. But he hadn't done anything wrong, just saw the flowers on his way to the bank on his lunch break. Red Velvet Melting Moments. Time has been flying along way too fast for me. I often wonder how people manage to keep up with all the crazy amounts of things they need to balance in their lives, since I find it pretty much impossible.

Inevitably one aspect of my life gets messy and neglected at some point (it usually ends up being the housework since I am a total slob). It boggles my mind that it's July already. Luckily my blog has never been the thing to be completely neglected in the last few years. Oat Cookies with Coconut Milk Chocolate Ganache. I always have a problem getting rid of leftover baking ingredients.

Oat Cookies with Coconut Milk Chocolate Ganache

My favourite thing to bake on whim when I need to use up leftover ingredients is cookies. They're so easy and quick and well, everyone loves cookies. Especially when there's chocolate involved. Chocolate and Pistachio Cake. Guys, it’s official.

Chocolate and Pistachio Cake

I am a homeowner. It’s scary and exciting, but mostly scary. Because truth be told, the house right now is far from perfect. The reality of homeownership is sinking in as I discover hidden corners of mold in the house, broken door knobs, and large gaping holes left over from the previous owner’s various wall hangings. White Chocolate Espresso Cake. I have long believed that celebrations should involve cake and plenty of it. I think three years are worth celebrating, don't you? This cake went through a couple iterations before it reached this final product, but friends and family have all agreed that it is incredible. White Chocolate Espresso Cake is on the list of my favorite cakes to date. A basic white cake batter is infused with espresso and has a lovely coffee aroma when finished baking. A white chocolate buttercream is spread around the cake; quite sweet, it is best used sparingly, but produces a complementary flavor to the cake.

Mini Brownie Butter Cake - Rasa Malaysia. Makes 12 cupcakes | Prep Time: 30 minutes | Bake Time: 35 minutes Adapted and modified from Kevin Chai – I Love Butter Cake Too2 Ingredients: Brownie: 140g (5oz) Dark Chocolate (broken into pieces) 50g (¼ cup) Butter 50g (¼ cup) Brown sugar 1 Egg 35g (¼ cup) All purpose flour. Brownie Butter Cake Recipe. Brownie butter cake – thick brownie and rich butter cake combined into one decadent and to-die-for cake! Bake the brownie first and then the butter cake. I am so happy that my contributor CP Choong is back with more sinfully delicious baking recipes. In this post, she is sharing an utterly gorgeous, rich, buttery, and decadent Brownie Butter Cake recipe, adapted from Kevin Chai’s “I love Butter Cake Too 2″ cookbook.

CP Choong and I went to high school together, but we didn’t know each other when we were in high school. Our high school is the most famous Chinese girls school in Penang, attended by hundreds of students in each grade. Black Forest Cupcakes - Rasa Malaysia. Makes 12 | Prep Time: 20 mins | Bake Time: 25 mins Adapted from Pooi Sam Contributor: CP Choong Method: Preheat oven to 180C (356F) and lined muffin pan with cupcake liners. Secret Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Chocolate Zucchini Bread Recipe. Supernatural Brownies. Man, I had a tough week last week. Black Tea Infused Dark Chocolate cake with blueberries. Gizzi Erskine’s Earl Grey Chocolate Fudge Cake. Chocolate Buttermilk Cake with Earl Grey Icing & Salted Caramel. Dark Chocolate and Earl Grey Tea Cookies. At work this week, I had to fill out an annual review.

The seemingly innocuous questionnaire was only a page long, but was filled with loaded questions that would determine my next (or, heaven forbid, lack thereof) salary raise: What were my accomplishments for the year? Super Chocolatey Cupcakes w/ Matcha Green Tea Frosting. There are two things–no wait, three things you should know about me: 2. I love to take secret, sneaky pictures of strangers doing strange things in public. 3. Fresh from the Oven: Where have I been? Hey friends, I am so sorry to leave you without a word for such a long time. I had shamelessly tagged OCT along on his interview trip to Seattle. And since we made a trip there, we decided to spend a couple more days in that wonderful city. You know, sipping lattes and eating as much as we could, especially croissant, which we are seriously deprived of, here in St Louis.

Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream. Dating someone new means meeting all sorts of new people. Listen… I know I’m getting old and this isn’t my first jump into meeting the groups of friends, the work buddies, the casual friends, the bosses, the grandma, or the adopted dog of the strapping young gent that I’m dating. Sadly, all this experience has made me no less awkward and devoid of grace. I have a tendency towards embarrassing sweat, stuttering and knuckle cracking that is less than charming… Or!

Raspberry Almond Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache. Kids between the ages of 3 and 7 are pretty amazing. They’re little screaming, snotting, jumping, and crashing balls of honesty. If they don’t like you, you know it. If they recognize you for the poopoo head that you are, they’re not afraid to tell you- to your face, in ear piercing tones. They haven’t yet developed the ability to filter their opinion of you. Sweet & Salty Cupcakes: chocolate & salted caramel cupcakes with whipped caramel ganache frosting. Going nuts over chocolate peanut butter cupcakes with caramel peanut glaze. Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe.

Chocolate Mint Cupcakes Recipe. Chocolate Coconut Cupcakes with Caramel Buttercream Frosting. Devil’s Mini-Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting. Zebra Cake. Bake for Happy Kids: A Very-Homely Chocolate Cake (Barefoot Contessa) Quickie: Chocolate Cake in a Mug. Cheesecake Brownies. Best Brownies. Basic Chocolate Cake Recipe. Espresso Brownies. A Matter Of Luck.

Marble Cake Recipe. Chocolate swirl buns. The baked brownie, spiced up. Chocolate chip sour cream coffee cake. Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake. Marbled Coconut Bread. Double Chocolate Chip Cranberry Bread. Mocha Coffee Coffee Cake. Mocha Rum Cake. Mocha Marble Cake with Choc Coffee Beans. Gooey Chocolate Cakes. Rocky Road Brownies. Cheesecake-marbled brownies. My favorite brownies. Cheesecake Brownies Recipe. Everyday chocolate cake. Chocolate And Coconut Slice Recipe. Chocalate Cake Recipe. Peanut Butter And Chocolate Brownies Recipe.