Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself stuck with a stale loaf of bread and a craving for dessert! Yep, us too. This leftover bread pudding is the solution. A Short History of Leftover Bread Pudding Apparently our need to use up stale bread is very, very old. Culinary Historians can trace leftover bread … Read more
How can you make regular banana bread even better? Swirl it with chocolate cake batter to make an amazing banana cake, the world’s tastiest and most adorable breakfast treat! Zebra Style It’s easy to trace the history of marbled cakes — long, fascinating, seemingly German in origin — we’ll come back to this soon! Traditional … Read more
Can’t pick between a brownie and a cookie? We understand; that happens to us, too. This recipe combines them both into delicious brownie mix chocolate chip cookies. About this Brownie Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe This recipe takes a homemade brownie recipe and dollops it into chocolate chip cookies. This makes a brownie more convenient … Read more
This Halloween Dirt Cake Recipe is the star of our Halloween celebrations. It’s rich and chocolatey, and very, very silly. It’s Halloween Baking Month!!! Halloween is coming. Do you know what the best thing about Halloween is (other than pets in totally ridiculous costumes)? Halloween Desserts! We stockpile recipes all year round to adequately prepare … Read more
Today we’re making a rich, chocolatey ice cream cake worthy of the most sophisticated of grownups. About this Big Boy Birthday Ice Cream Cake Recipe Our youngest boy is turning four this weekend. For his birthday he requested a big boy chocolatey ice cream cake. Taking him at his word, we made an ice cream … Read more
Today we’re making a delightful bundt cake recipe featuring one of our favorite flavor combinations — oranges, almond, and chocolate. About this Bundt Cake Recipe We have previously waxed lyrical about our favorite 6-cup bundt cake pan, so please forgive the repeat. We love how adorable bundts look with minimal decoration. This beautiful cake is … Read more
This is a traditional black forest cake recipe. This dark fudgy cake is layered with whipped cream and cherries. A Short History of Black Forest Cake Culinary historians debate the origins of black forest cake. Some attribute it to the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany. This area is famous for its sour cherries and … Read more
This is a recipe for delicious chocolate chip scones. They have a crispy exterior and a tender interior and are studded with mini chocolate chips. When we make them for breakfast, our kids think they have won the lottery. About this Chocolate Chip Scone Recipe American scones must have, at some point, descended from the … Read more
We wanted to love the s’mores cake recipe that we tried, but it just didn’t have enough graham cracker flavor or marshmallow-ey goodness. Stick to these s’mores bars! About Our Search For the Perfect S’mores Cake and S’mores Bars We are writing to you this week from Long Island, where we are all enjoying some … Read more
The Concorde combines meringues and chocolate mousse to win the prize for fanciest chocolate mousse cake recipe. A Short History of This Chocolate Mousse Cake Recipe This French Chocolate mousse cake is known in some circles as a Concorde. It is, to us, the perfect dessert for a party. The cake is festive looking and … Read more