chocolate

  • Wacky Bundt Cake

    Wacky cake recipes also make great bundt cakes. Scaling the recipe to 2 1/2 times fits a 10″ bundt cake perfectly.

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  • Wacky Cake

    A World War II era cake recipe that proves necessity is the mother of invention. Since eggs and dairy were rationed, creative cooks came up with a simple, yet delicious cake recipe that should make you vow to never buy a boxed cake mix again.

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  • Vegan Cranberry Orange Bread

    This recipe for Orange Cranberry bread is my first experiment with modifying a recipe to make it vegan. I think it turned out even better than the dairy and egg version. The chocolate was an addition suggested by my dear husband. It was an inspired idea that works well off the orange and cranberry.

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  • Individual Fallen Chocolate Cakes

    Yesterday was our anniversary. We usually have Fridays off, but unfortunately Dave had to work that day. I decided to make him a nice dinner and wanted to have a sinful dessert to go with it. He loved the chocolate cupcakes I made a few weeks ago, but I didn’t want to have that many…

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  • Mocha Double-Chocolate Birthday Cake

    After making the practice cupcakes, I decided to be adventurous and try a new recipe. While the devil’s food cupcakes were really good, I was not happy with the frosting. I was able to salvage the recipe by adding unsweetened chocolate and cocoa, but the consistency was a little off and by omitting half the…

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  • Practice Cupcakes

    We have another birthday in my office next week. I asked the birthday girl to name her favorite type of cake and her answer was chocolate with chocolate frosting. I decided to take a practice run to make sure I had a good recipe. I hate making something for the first time for an audience.…

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  • German Chocolate Cake

    Last September, I decided it would be nice to make birthday cakes for the people in my group. I work in a large department, but my group is only 8 people. It turned out that 3 of those people all have birthdays in September, so I was busy that month. Bob’s favorite is German Chocolate.…

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