Salted Peanut No-Bake Cheesecake ~ This is a no fuss elegant dessert that comes together quickly.
Salted Peanut No-Bake Cheesecake
High baking season has started and I tend to get a little crazy with it. While I love it, Matt hates the process but loves the treats that come from it. Running an oven nearly 24/7 from now until January turns our little place into a 2 month long sauna session. For that reason I’m easing into it with this no-bake recipe.
You’ll find the recipe for this Salted Peanut No-Bake Cheesecake over at Endless Simmer where I contribute a weekly dessert.
Mini German Chocolate Cakes ~ Like Levis to jeans, German Chocolate Cake is an American classic when it comes to cakes.
Mini German Chocolate Cake
Small in size, large in flavor and forever popular in my house, I decided to flip the standard German Chocolate Cake into minis.
Yes, I know I’m a mini fanatic. Although a little more work than making one cake or cupcakes, I much prefer mini cakes for their curb appeal. Aside from that, I like the even bite of filling and frosting rather than the gob of sugar sweetness on the top of a cupcake. I also prefer serving a fully decorated mini cake rather than a slice. Call me a nutcase, I call it packaging. I’m a sucker for well designed packaging and that includes cakes. Continue reading German Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Lemon Pear Cake~ What makes up five layers of cake love? Let me tell you: 3 layers of chocolate cake, a layer of lemon curd, a layer of pears and some chocolate ganache in between and all around and you have enough cake love to last a few days.
Chocolate Lemon Pear Cake
That is unless you are my son, who a few weeks ago, told me “I don’t like cake”. Well, you have never seen anyone pull a better Linda Blair 360-head turn.
B-l-a-s-p-h-e-m-y.
Deciding not to disown him on the spot, I covered a piece in chocolate cake with buttercream frosting sprinkled on some his favorite M&Ms, and . . . to no avail. Weird thing is, he likes cupcakes-huh?
Well stubborn is as stubborn does; I pushed the issue once more and decided to bake a cake with his favorite fruit: pear.
And. . . . once more, to no avail. The kid doesn’t like cake. Why can’t it be brussel spouts that he doesn’t like?! Yeah, I know “bad-mommy-me”. Go ahead. But without him, I would have never thought of this cake.
So many thanks to my non-cake loving child and you will be thanking him too because this cake, to put in its correct vernacular (that is according to my friend’s 23-year-old daughter). . .
