Death by Chocolate Birthday Cake

Our entire family loves chocolate, so it was a no brainer when my sister asked me to make her the Kit Kat cake, but instead of cake with brownies AND frost it with ganache AND decorate with Maltesers, Smarties and M&M's. In the end, the cake turned out great and everybody loved it.

Chocolate bundt cake {pumpkin style}

Have you seen the photos of two bundt cakes put together to look like pumpkins on Pinterest? I decided to make them as well, now that it is fall. I tried to create orange white chocolate ganache, but I think the orange still wasn't strong enough, yet I wasn't willing to pour in an entire bottle. You can judge for yourselves. You could consider the appearance of this cake to be a fail, but it is pretty clever idea wise.

Zebra Bundt Cake

I really like the flavour of bundt cake and pound cake. I like the richness and texture of the cake. And so I decided to make this zebra bundt cake. My zebra lines didn't turn out as clean as possible, but that may be because I didn't follow the instructions and just randomly poured the chocolate and vanilla batter. If you want pictures, showing how to make the layers, check out the recipe link above. The flavour was delicious and because it was topped with ganache, a.k.a. the best frosting, glaze, topping ever! I plan on writing a post about ganache soon, but until then, you can use this recipe or the one from the polka dot cake.

Pintester Movement 2.0 - Crazy Cake / "Nora" torta

I have participated in the first Pintester movement and it was a huge success. I got more than a thousand views from the site, which for me, is a HUGE success. Since this pin test had to be of a pin that Sonja already tested, I decided to test the crazy cake. It seemed pretty simple. And thanks to Sonja's advice, I greased the baking pan before mixing. It was harder to combine all of the ingredients since all of the dry ingredients stuck to the pan, but I scraped it up so the batter was fully combined.

This cake recipe was developed during WW2, when eggs, butter and milk were very expensive, that is why it substituted eggs with vinegar and butter with oil.

My cake turned out looking very similar to the original source's. Yay!

So the directions to make this cake are really simple, and so are the ingredients.

Ingredients:

• butter (for greasing the pan)
• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons white vinegar
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups cold water
• powdered sugar (as garnish)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350° F or 180° C.
2. Grease a 13X9 baking pan with butter.
3. Combine the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in the baking pan.
4. Make three holes and pour the vanilla extract into the first, vinegar into the second and oil into the third.
5. Pour water over the entire pan.
6. Mix everything with a fork or whisk. Make sure to get everything on the bottom.
7. Bake in the oven for 35 to 40 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely and then dust with powdered sugar.

I hope you try this recipe, it is delicious. You don't have to make it in the baking pan, you can always make the batter in a bowl and then pour it in.

Please comment below!!!

Flourless chocolate cake

I made a cake today! I really wanted to try out the recipe. It was really simple. It used up five eggs that I needed to be used up, so if you are looking for a recipe to empty your egg supply, this is it. I don't have any pictures yet, but I will try to make another cake and take MANY photos.

Polka dot cake

I was "surfing" on pinterest and I found this really great idea to make a cake with polka dots INSIDE. I don't have a cake pop pan, so I just made a few muffins, crumbled them and rolled them into balls. I'm not really familiar with cake pops, so I didn't alter the recipe in any way. The cake turned out great and it looks amazing and added that extra wow to the cake.