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Favorite Chocolate Cake Recipe: How to Make It. HomeDishes & BeveragesCakesChocolate Cakes This cake is extra chocolaty.

Favorite Chocolate Cake Recipe: How to Make It

The recipe makes a perfect number of servings, so leftovers are never a problem. —Janice Arnold, Gansevoort, New York <img src=" loading="lazy" height="42" width="42" />Total Time Prep: 10 min. Bake: 30 min. 5 Ways to Decorate a Cake with a Spoon. The internet is filled with ridiculously gorgeous, over-the-top decorated cakes, but most mere mortals aren’t able to sculpt a cake into a designer purse or make it look like a cartoon character.

5 Ways to Decorate a Cake with a Spoon

While I personally adore the way those cakes look, I would never attempt to make one at home, since I prefer decorating techniques that don't require hours of fondant work. Instead, when I’m ready to decorate a frosted layer cake, I reach for the humble spoon. Yes – a cheap spoon is all you need to decorate a cake! The back of the spoon can make swoops and swirls, zigzags and stripes, spirals and concentric circles, ruffles and waves and floral petals. No piping bag or fancy tips required! Before You Begin Frost the cake completely with a crumb layer, then add another layer of frosting about 3/4-inch thick on all the sides and the top of the cake.

Smooth out the frosting as much as you can but don’t worry too much about how smooth you get it. Blueberry Cake Recipe. MethodHide Photos 1 Preheat oven and prepare springform pan: Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly butter an 8 or 9-inch springform pan and dust with flour. Or use an 8 or 9-inch round cake pan, butter and dust with flour and line the bottom with parchment paper. 2 Mix flour with baking powder and salt: Vigorously whisk together 1 cup of flour with baking powder, salt, and cinnamon and set aside. 3 Make batter: Using a mixer, beat the butter on medium high speed for 2 minutes. Moist Yellow Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Frosting. Tanyard Farm Buttermilk Cake. Battenberg Cake Recipe on Food52.

Add 1/4 up finely chopped cherries to red batter, tbsp cherry juice. Try superfine sugar for granulated – fauxtudor

Blueberry Buckle - Savor the Best.

Made with 2 cups frozen blueberries and 1 cup frozen raspberries, lime zest, pecans. Very good – fauxtudor

Raspberry Buttermilk Cake Recipe at Epicurious. Photo by Romulo Yanes yield Makes 6 servings active time 15 min total time 1 hr Simple, tender buttermilk cake topped with a nice, sugary crunch: We like it as it is, full of raspberries, but you could easily substitute any sweet, juicy berries you pick up at the farmers market.

Raspberry Buttermilk Cake Recipe at Epicurious

Preparation Preheat oven to 400°F with rack in middle. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Beat butter and 2/3 cup sugar with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes, then beat in vanilla. Maple Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe. Advertisement No Thanks Keep In Touch With MarthaStewart.com Sign up and we'll send inspiration straight to you.

Maple Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

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Martha Stewart takes your privacy seriously. To learn more, please read our Privacy Policy. Close. Bourbon cake. A year and a month ago, I posted this recipe for Kentucky Bourbon Butter Cake on my blog.

Bourbon cake

It was one of my absolute favorites — an incredibly buttery and moist buttermilk cake, soaked and topped in a buttery and sugary whiskey glaze. Unfortunately, I took the pictures before I had gotten the hang of my artificial lighting. The resulting images were oddly colored and didn't do justice to the cake. Pumpkin Buttermilk Bundt Cake with Brown Butter Icing. You guys I’m all moved into my new place and I couldn’t love it more.

Cool in pan 10 to 15 minutes before inverting and removing – fauxtudor

It is so different from where I’ve lived the last 7+ years and the new energy just feels so amazing.

Pumpkin Buttermilk Bundt Cake with Brown Butter Icing

I can really envision a little baby around here and I’m in full on nesting mode. You can expect an upcoming post with some pictures of the new place once we do some more decorating. But- you’d be amazed at how unpacked and settled we were after only 24 hours. My sisters and mom were unpacking mavens and we barreled through everything that first night. My one mistake was really not sitting or eating much on moving day, which I am still paying for. Anyway…I couldn’t wait too long to bake something in my new beautiful kitchen and it didn’t take long for me to decide that this light and fluffy pumpkin cake was the way to go. This cake is easy to throw together and the texture is perfection. Gingerbread cupcake recipe. Okay, there are SO many reasons why I love these cupcakes, and one particular reason that I am discussing gingerbread in what is not usually gingerbread season.

Makes about 22. For frosting, use CAO cream cheese frosting on Pepperplate – fauxtudor

First and most importantly, the cupcake part is a light, spicy, molasses and ginger bundle of wonderfulness.

Gingerbread cupcake recipe

And the frosting. I barely have words for the frosting. Okay…here are some words: Cinnamon. Cream cheese. Here’s another reason: this cupcake recipe was born at the mouthwatering Georgetown Cupcake, whose first location was and is in the beautiful Georgetown area of Washington DC. Dulce de Leche Cupcakes. Is it wrong to J-walk into church?

Dulce de Leche Cupcakes

…. because I do it just about every Sunday. Is it wrong to curse at people on the road while driving to church? Cause… maybe that’s happened once or twice. On a scale of one to total jerk… how jerky is it for me to blatantly roll my eyes at the lady on the spin bike next to me who is flirting with the obviously married man on the other side of me? Do I really need to be in the middle of this interaction? Oh! Chocolate Bourbon Cake Recipe. The Only Other Frosting You’ll Ever Need: White Chocolate Buttercream « Comfortably Domestic. I realize that I told you once that I had a recipe for The Only Frosting You’ll Ever Need.

The Only Other Frosting You’ll Ever Need: White Chocolate Buttercream « Comfortably Domestic

I even went so far as to claim that you’d never need to make another frosting ever again for the rest of your life. A bold assertion, I know. However, I’ve been on a recipe development jag lately, and my primary focus has been on different cake and frosting pairings. I have volunteered to Guest Post on FrostingForTheCause, in an effort to do my part in raising money for cancer research.

Quick Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. Brown Sugar Bourbon Cake Recipe. Cake: In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter, sugar, spices and baking powder. Add one egg and beat until smooth. Scrape the bowl and add the remaining eggs, one at a time, beating until the mixture is smooth and fluffy after each egg is added.

Add the flour, about 1/3 at a time, alternately with the liquids (milk and bourbon). Be sure to scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl after each addition. Blend in the nuts, if you're using them. Rustic Upside-Down Rhubarb Mint Cake. Rustic Upside-Down Rhubarb Mint Cake Sweet and tangy, a hint of mint, and very, very pretty! 1 lb rhubarb, trimmed into diagonal 1”pieces 1 ¼ cups light brown sugar, packed, divided 4 Tbsp unsalted butter plus 14 Tbsp in ½” cubes, chilled.