raspberry – Long Distance Baking

If we’re being honest here, I’m not much of a frosting person. I’ll eat it, but I’d prefer whatever is underneath. Frosting kind of just gets in the way. When I made this Red Wine Chocolate Cake, I knew I wanted to incorporate the fruit filling into the frosting. I figured adding the raspberry jam into the buttercream would be good, but I didn’t know just how good it would end up being. Guys, I wanted to eat this frosting with a spoon. And I’m the kind of person that scrapes off … [Read more…]

A few weeks ago I saw a Food & Wine article titled the Ultimate Cake Baking Bucket List. The goal is to bake a cake every month for a year and the idea is that each new cake will teach you new skills and give you an opportunity to practice your technique. Plus you also get to eat a cake every month, and what could be wrong with that? I’m not sure if I’ll actually try to keep up with this bucket list, but I liked the idea. Why is it that we have to have a reason to make a cake? Especially … [Read more…]

Where has the time gone…can you believe May is over halfway over?! Guess that’s what happens when you spend it packing and moving across the country. With June just around the corner (and unaccustomed to the humidity of Louisiana) I’m already looking forward to summer smoothies and cold drinks! Last summer I got in the habit of freezing extra fruit for this very reason, but of course didn’t bother to do anything with them until now. I’m also not a fan of green smoothies, so I kept … [Read more…]