To welcome my husband home from a business trip, I made a yummy banana chocolate cake. In March, banana’s are in season, and in this house… chocolate is always in season. I tested out some new recipes and slightly tweaked them according to user reviews and to accommodate what I had on hand. Of course the little guy wanted to help out so he was in charge of the mixing, scooping, and also the chopping (a.k.a “hammering”) of the walnuts.
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Little Lamb Cake
This adorable lamb cake is perfect for birthdays or Easter or baby showers.
Happy 1st Birthday to my beautiful niece, Sarah! She is crazy in love with her lamb dolls so my mom (aka grandma) did not disappoint when she made this cake for the special occasion. The cake base was for all the guests, and the little lamb sitting on top was specially made with the intention of it getting picked up and hugged and eaten, which it was! Sarah’s fingers, hands, face, and well… Sarah was completely covered in frosting and cake within minutes.
I asked my mom to take some photos of the cake building process so I could share with our more ambitious Cake Student visitors the secrets to assembling such a cake. So without further ado…
St. Patrick’s Day Truffles
The experiment: Homemade vs. Store Bought
How time consuming? More cost effective? Just as delicious? I have never made truffles before and I was up for a challenge. I found a very simple recipe, calculated the cost to make, and compared them to professional truffles.
Truffle Mix for St. Patrick's Day
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Raspberry Heart Linzer Cookies
If there ever was a perfectly obvious cookie choice made for Valentines Day, its got to be this one. Doesn’t it just scream Valentines Day?
After quite a bit of internet surfing for a Linzer cookie recipe, I couldn’t find one that sounded easy and for which I had all the ingredients. So I took a stab at making my own. They came out amazing! The dough was easy to work with, and the most important thing… they tasted delicious, light and buttery with a nice almond lemon flavor.
Making the dough was the easy part. I let it chill in the fridge while I did our usual bedtime routine with my son. Then worked for 2 hours on baking and decorating all of them. Exhausting but worth it! Here is how to make them…
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