CCK is back with another bake designed and executed by an almost-four-year-old. It all started with his grandfather’s birthday. “Oh, it’s GP’s birthday! We need to make him a cake!” “What kind of cake do you want to make for him?” “A chocolate chip cake!” As I showed him different photos for inspiration on what…
Category: Cake
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese IMBC
This is a longer post than usual due to all the parts and adventures that came together to make this cake. If you’ve ever perused the site Cake Wrecks, then you’re likely familiar with the naked mohawk-baby carrot jockeys. A friend and fellow fan of Cake Wrecks only ever had one request if she ever…
Surprise Inside Cake – Pinky the Ghost
A surprise inside cake looks simple enough. It’s a cake of any flavor with a design or different color cake inside of it. One complaint I’ve seen pop up in a lot of conversation about surprise inside cakes is that the design typically ends up dry since it’s baked twice. Having baked one now, I…
Pull Apart (Cupcake) Cake with Italian Meringue Buttercream
In 2019, I’m taking on some baking challenges with two other bakers in different states. The challenge for January is a pull apart cupcake cake. I opted for a fun but simple design for this, my first cupcake cake. To still make it a challenge, though, I tried my hand at making Italian meringue buttercream…
Survival by Chocolate: A Dementor Salve
A quick recap from the last post: I was recently asked if I would donate some goodies to a fund raising event for a local chapter of The Harry Potter Alliance. Cavendish Brewing Company was hosting a Yule Ball and was interested in treats for their room of requirement as well as pieces for the auction. I couldn’t…
Chocolate Peppermint Yule Log
Chocolate roll cake with peppermint buttercream and chocolate ganache. This Yule log is a great Christmas treat.
Mirror Glaze
I finally built up the nerve to try a mirror glaze and I am so glad I did. The recipe for this experiment is from Sugar Geek Show and I definitely recommend it. For the cake, I made a devil’s food box cake replacing the water with milk and oil with butter. After taking the cake out…
Portal Cakes
When I decided on my bundt cake theme, I knew I had to do an orange portal and a blue portal. Portal and Portal 2 are funny fun puzzle adventure games by Valve. If you’re not familiar, you have a gun that shoots two portals, an orange one and a blue one. You can enter an…
Sarlacc Cake
The sarlacc cake! This is the cake that set me on a run of geek-themed bundt cakes. If you’ve watched the original Star Wars trilogy, you may recognize this monster as one who almost made a snack out of the Millennium Falcon. The recipes and construction come by way of Yummy Crumble. She took inspiration from…
Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake – Box Mix
Box cake mixes do not hold mix-ins well. No matter how many times I try this, I refuse to learn my lesson. The result is all of the fruit or nuts sinking to the bottom of the pan/top of the cake. This experiment included adding blueberries and lemon zest to a boxed cake mix. Very…
Individual Strawberry Jam Cakes
Looking for a tasty little treat for a mid-day snack or and end-of-day dessert? These hand-cakes by Martha Stewart will hit the spot. You can easily customize the recipe by switching out the flavor of the filling and using or omitting the citrus. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Individual Strawberry Jam Cakes 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, room temp 3/4 cup…
GBBO – Prue’s Chocolate Mini Rolls
Who doesn’t love a good challenge from the The Great British Bake Off? The latest season available on Netflix introduced us to Prue, one of the new hosts, and her chocolate mini rolls. Admittedly, my first attempt at this recipe didn’t follow the instructions to the letter, but I learned a few things and can’t wait…
Casual Confections 