
Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Filling and Coconut Cream Frosting
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Yeas ago I clipped some cupcake recipes from Chocolatier Magazine. Yesterday I was going through stuff and found this one, which was fortunate since I’d been craving coconut cupcakes all week and hadn’t settled on a recipe. I’d had my eye on Ina Garten’s, but decided to go with Chocolatier’s since it called for cake [...]
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A few months ago I bought The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook: Recipes from the World-Famous Bakery and Allysa Torey’s Home Kitchen. There were so many good recipes, it took me weeks just to settle on something. That someting turned out to be the coconut cake, which is one of Todd’s favorite desserts. Like a lot of [...]
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Here’s a photo of the cake I made for today’s Teacher Appreciation. I assembled it last night, kept it in a cake holder overnight and served it today. I think the cake went over well. As usual, I read all the Epicurious reviewer comments before making the cake. Some people used coconut milk instead of [...]
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Tonight I made a really great coconut cake. The full version of the recipe is located on Recipezaar, but as usual I made modifications. First off, who has self rising flour? Well, I do. But I figured not many other people would so I went ahead and made my own by …
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This is a fast cake you can throw together in a jiffy, provided you have some Coco Lopez on hand, and who doesn’t keep Coco Lopez in the pantry? Um, me. I had to go buy it, and found not only do they sell it in the booze section of the grocery store, they sell smaller [...]
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Here’s a recipe you won’t find on the back of a bag. It was invented by my friend Janice’s husband, Larry who likes to put a creative twist on old recipes. This recipe, which evolved from a very old recipe involving crushed pineapple and angel cake mix, is one of Larry’s best. For the baking [...]
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I have made some modifications to the previous cake recipe, so if you copied it, you might want to re-copy it. The sheet cake idea didn’t work so well. The cake tasted good, but the coconut mixture didn’t seep down into the cake very much, but rather sat on top and firmed up. The correct [...]
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