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Chocolate Guinness Cake Recipe. 91 Chocolate Desserts for Days When a Plain Chocolate Bar Just Isn't Enough. The best chocolate desserts can make any day better.

91 Chocolate Desserts for Days When a Plain Chocolate Bar Just Isn't Enough

Sometimes, sure, a chocolate bar will do. But sometimes you need a slice of chocolate cake, or a bite of a deep, dark cocoa brownie. (Seriously, we've been baking these at least once a week lately.) Sometimes the answer is a batch of chewy chocolate cookies, while other times you're ready to whip up a chocolate mousse. Whether you're looking for easy desserts or big baking projects to pass a rainy afternoon, you'll find something to satisfy your chocolate craving below. Lemon Meltaways Recipe.

Strawberry Cheesecake Bars Recipe. Homemade Biscoff (Belgian Speculoos Cookies) Recipe. Oreo Balls - Preppy Kitchen.

Cupcakes

Sheet cakes. Granola Bites Recipe. Bakingamoment. White Mountain Layer Cake with Marshmallow Buttercream Recipe. Forget everything you know about “white cake,” this recipe’s a game changer: rich and velvety to the point of creaminess, heady with vanilla, and almost as fluffy as angel’s food cake.

White Mountain Layer Cake with Marshmallow Buttercream Recipe

The secret is virgin coconut oil, which amplifies the aroma of butter and vanilla while creaming up lighter (and whiter) than butter alone. I top it all off with silky Marshmallow Buttercream, for a cake that’s beguilingly complex despite its apparent simplicity. 1 packet (2 1⁄4 tsp. | 1⁄4 oz.) unflavored gelatin powder 1⁄4 cup (2 oz.) cool tap water to bloom the gelatin 1 tbsp. vanilla extract and/or 1 vanilla bean 3⁄4 cup (6 oz.) water for the sugar syrup 3⁄4 cup plus 2 Tbsp. (10 oz.) light corn syrup. Salted Caramel Pretzel Brownies Recipe. Salted Caramel Pretzel Brownies Recipe. 36 of Our Best Chocolate Cake Recipes. Mocha Dacquoise Cake Recipe.

This multilayered French dessert of baked almond meringue, buttercream, and sweetened, rum-spiked whipped cream tastes best doused in a dark chocolate sauce and served with strong coffee to offset some of the sweetness of the cream layers.

Mocha Dacquoise Cake Recipe

Not cutting the cake immediately after its assembled helps to prevent the meringues from cracking while slicing through. Preheat the oven to 250°. Make the meringue: In a stand mixer on high speed, beat the egg whites until very stiff peaks form, 2-3 minutes. Canelés de Bordeaux Recipe. Pastry expert Niko Triantafillou of Dessert Buzz has made creating the perfect canelé one of his life quests.

Canelés de Bordeaux Recipe

His recipe is the real deal: crunchy and caramelized to a deep mahogany brown on the outside, moist and custardy within, and deeply perfumed with dark rum and vanilla bean. Though Niko bakes his canelés in traditional copper molds lined with melted beeswax and clarified butter, we have adapted his method to use inexpensive silicone molds and nonstick cooking spray for ease and thrift.

But if you are ready to take the plunge and buy a pricey set of copper molds, then coat the insides with a paper-thin layer of “white oil” (equal parts beeswax and clarified butter), and be sure to chill them thoroughly in the freezer before filling with batter and baking atop a pizza stone. Practice makes perfect with these tricky little pastries, so don’t worry if your first couple of batches aren’t flawless.

Give your batter plenty of time to rest in the fridge, and don’t rush the baking. Hazelnut Butter Cake with Sea Salt Caramel Recipe. Cake Preheat oven to 350°.

Hazelnut Butter Cake with Sea Salt Caramel Recipe

Butter an 8”-diameter cake pan. Cinco Leches Cake Recipe. Cake Using a vegetable peeler, remove zest from orange and lime in wide strips, leaving white pith behind.

Cinco Leches Cake Recipe

Transfer to a large measuring cup or medium bowl. Whisk in evaporated milk, cream, condensed milk, and coconut milk. Let sit until ready to use. Arrange a rack in center of oven; preheat to 350˚. Whisk flour, baking powder, and cinnamon in a small bowl. Using an electric mixer on low speed, beat eggs in a large bowl, gradually increasing speed to medium-high, until broken up. Chocolate-Caramel Cake with Sea Salt Recipe. Cake Preheat oven to 325°.

Chocolate-Caramel Cake with Sea Salt Recipe

Lightly coat cake pans with nonstick spray and line bottoms with parchment paper; spray again. Whisk flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Using an electric mixer on high speed, beat eggs and sugar until pale and doubled in volume, about 4 minutes. Add mayonnaise and vanilla and beat until just combined. Bake cakes, rotating halfway through, until a tester inserted into the centers comes out clean, 25–30 minutes.

Milk Chocolate and Salted Caramel Gâteau Saint-Honoré Recipe. Base and Cream Puffs Preheat oven to 375°.

Milk Chocolate and Salted Caramel Gâteau Saint-Honoré Recipe

Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Unfold 1 puff pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface. Unfold second pastry sheet and place directly on top of first, forming 2 layers. Press slightly to adhere. Violet Macarons With Violet And Vanilla Bean Buttercream. I know, in my last post I asked you what my mom should make as an upcoming guest blogger, ratatouille or apple tart and here I am giving you macarons!

Violet Macarons With Violet And Vanilla Bean Buttercream

Remember discombobulated? We did make the ratatouille, ... and ate it so it will have to wait for a redo. There is actual logic behind posting these delicious, Spring colored macarons filled with violet and vanilla bean buttercream and topped with crushed violet pearl sugar. I thought about using my cherry blossom extract but could not locate the bottle on time (I guess that's why they call it Spring cleaning, ugh?!)

Today is the official first day of Spring. It is also Macaron Day in France. And it is my brother's birthday. I admit that anything strong with the scent of violet leaves me a little lightheaded or with that brain freeze feeling right between the eyes. The Silver Palate's Chocolate Cake Recipe - NYT Cooking. Homemade Yellow Cake Mix Recipe.

Cookies and Biscuits

Red Velvet Cake Recipe.