Making life a little sweeter since 2012
This towering high Chocolate Almond Layer Cake will make a cute addition to your Easter brunch buffet. Or maybe a birthday cake? Almond cake layers with a rich, semi-sweet chocolate ganache buttercream. Who can resist?! Using 5-inch cake pans will achieve the towering affect, but the cake can easily be made with 6-inch pans for a lower, wider cake….
It’s less than 2 weeks till Christmas (yay!) and my holiday baking is in full gear. Besides just a few sugar cookies, I’ve been making a lot of cakes and other treats, like this Naked Mulled Wine Chocolate Layer Cake. It is so festive and pretty, and super easy to make! Two layers of mulled wine infused chocolate cake filled with chocolate cream cheese frosting. I topped the cake with sifted cocoa powder but that was more because it looks pretty. You could decorate it with some more cream cheese frosting (double the recipe), toasted meringue, or just plain melted chocolate….
It feels like it was just yesterday that our sweet baby girl was born and it is so hard to believe it’s actually been a whole year! She turned one last month and we celebrated, of course, with cake. It was beyond debate that I would make her the prettiest little baby smash cake so she could dig in with her tiny chubby hands! And it needed to be healthy. So I made some minor changes to one of my favorite banana cake recipes (here with coconut and honey cream cheese frosting). It is made with whole wheat flour (or oat flour), bananas, apple sauce, canola oil and spices. Despite the sugar, all ingredients in this cake are super healthy and baby friendly. She loved it, and so did the rest of the family who ate the leftovers!
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Winter is (hopefully) drawing to an end here in Texas and I am trying to make the best of this wintery coldness with this soul-warming pear and poppy seed cake: Three pear upside down cakes that are packed with almonds and stacked with poppy seed buttercream. Buttercream that is so loaded with poppy seeds its almost black! That’s my kind of cake, cause poppy seeds are my secret obsession. There is a German classic, Poppy Seed Crumble Cake (which was actually one of my first and most popular posts), I tell you – to die for. If you love poppy seeds. Or even if you don’t. But if you do, you will love this combination: poppy seeds and pears! A dream team that makes the cold winter weather just a little bit more bearable… a little bit.
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Oh what a beauty. This strawberry milkshake cake is a treat for your taste buds AND for your eyes! Why milkshake you wonder? Well, this cake is not just loaded and soaked with milk but the frosting tastes EXACTLY like strawberry ice cream – or strawberry milkshake. It is amazing! I made a cream cheese buttercream, flavored it just slightly with pureed, sweetened strawberries and it turned out perfectly. The cake itself is a white cake soaked in milk. Super moist, super milky and super delicious.
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This Triple Layer Chocolate Marzipan Cake is pure decadence! And highly addictive. Three thick layers of rich almond-chocolate cake stacked with dark chocolate ganache and marzipan… topped with cake truffles. Well, I admit, this is not exactly the right cake for anyone trying to drop those holiday pounds but trust me, it’s worth it.
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There it is, the first layer cake on my blog! And oh my goodness, WHAT a layer cake. Unbelievable fluffy and moist with a slight coconut flavor through and through. It all started with this Southern Coconut Cake recipe from Completely Delicious (a great blog by the way, check it out). I had an eye on it for a while and was just waiting for the right occasion (“right occasion” you wonder, who needs the “right occasion” for cake?) but when I decided to turn the recipe into a Raffaello cake, I just couldn’t wait any longer.
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my name is Melina, I’m a passionate cake baker/eater and food photographer born and raised in Germany... Read More…
