Flourless Chocolate Cake with Green Tea Icing. This cake perfectly captures the week that I have had.
In a fit of madness I decided to go on a crazy health kick, starting this week. No more cake for breakfast :( It's been a very long week. My stomach started making angry lioness-type noises that everyone in the office could hear and I rediscovered my addiction to Japanese green tea. I've been drinking bucketloads of it. And the whole week all I could think about was chocolate cake.
Rather than cheating on my health kick I distracted myself by making plans to bake a fantastic, fudgey chocolate cake on the weekend, which I would then give away to other people and weep into my 100th mug of sencha. This cake is a little on the ugly side but the amazingness of the flavour totally outweighs the looks. For the icing (feel free to double these amounts to get a nice thick layer of icing):125g cream cheese (can use light cream cheese) 1 1/2 cups icing sugar, sifted 1 tsp matcha (green tea) powder P.S.
DIY Pinata Cookies. Cheesecake Filled Chocolate Easter Eggs. It's hard to believe Easter is just around the corner.
This year is going too fast for me to keep up! I swear it felt like yesterday that I was laughing at how quickly the Easter displays went up to replace the Christmas stuff at the beginning of the year, it has managed to creep up on me. My days are getting busier and busier, so I am easily drawn to the simpler, quicker desserts that I can pull together at the last minute. This recipe could not be any easier; there's no baking involved and it takes hardly any time to create these cute Cheesecake-Filled Chocolate Easter Eggs with a 'yolk' made of passionfruit sauce. I took it as a compliment when Lisa (who hates eating eggs) said that these looked so much like real eggs that she was a little creeped out by them.
Mingmakescupcakes.yolasite. Grasshopper Pie. I love desserts containing creme de menthe.
I’m still not sure what my mom was thinking, but I used to eat creme de menthe parfaits (basically, layers of vanilla ice creme with creme de menthe drizzled between the layers) with great regularity beginning when I was six years old. *Hiccup* I wonder if that’s what’s wrong with me? *Hiccup* Anyway, yesterday I was craving something minty, fresh, and cold. I was fresh out of vanilla ice cream, so I decided to whip up a Grasshopper Pie, circa…well, I can’t exactly say from what era Grasshopper Pies originally hail. Thank you, Betty Daley, for the recipes you contributed to my mother’s old recipe box, which eventually morphed into a large and bulky recipe binder, which my mother blessedly left at my house once upon a time, and which I accidentally shook upside down as I was later returning it to her in hopes some of the little jewels like these would fall out.
And they did. No Bake Chocolate Cake Recipe. I don't know about you, but I didn't accomplish much today.
I slept in, halfheartedly ran a few errands, accumulated flowers wherever I went, and spent a good amount of time arranging poppies & peonies into a hodgepodge of mason jars and vases. Flowers aside, I dedicated ten minutes making this chocolate cake. It's the ultimate lazy chocolate dessert. And while I think of it as a no bake chocolate cake, you wouldn't be far off if you called it a slice-able truffle. If you have a some dark chocolate, cream, and something to infuse the cream with, you're in business. This is the sort of thing I'll throw together if we're having friends over for dinner and I run out of steam on the dessert front. The choice of pan warrants a mention. Butter, to grease pan 8 ounces / 225 g 70% chocolate, well chopped 8 ounces / 225 g heavy cream 1/2 teaspoon allspice (optional) 2 teaspoons finely ground espresso (optional) 1/4 teaspoon fine grain salt cocoa powder, to serve Serves 12.
Print Recipe. Carrot cake with maple-cream cheese frosting. After months and months and months of the kind studying, stressing and panicked all-nighters I only vaguely remember from college in part because I am very, very old and in part because, no, I did not graduate with a 4.0, my friend Alice finally took her very big exam this past weekend.
In an effort to compensate for the dozens of parties and outings and merriment she’s missed since the summer, her fiance had a surprise party (and a clean loft, swoon) waiting for her when she got home. Me? I made cupcakes, carrot cupcakes to be specific because carrot cake is Alice’s favorite. But do you know what I have come to realize about people who say their favorite cake is carrot cake?
It’s really the cream cheese frosting (and perhaps the orange and green carrots eloquently piped on top) that they love. Nevertheless, I actually have a killer recipe for carrot cake and hadn’t used it in years, which means that you haven’t been privy to it yet, and that’s not fair, is it? Preheat oven to 350°F.