Archive for the 'Desserts' Category

Last night, as I explain in comments to my last post, the wife and I successfully cooked together. The chicken chili was delicious, but dessert was the best.
I used Emeril’s recipe for Devil’s Food Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Icing. The cake could not be easier to make. If you think like me, you’ll protest that […]

As I’m feeling a little under the weather today, I’m going to take the easy way out and provide a newswrap of the various stories I found today covering Valentine’s Day Chocolate. Besides, I experimented with the chocolate cake in the post below. Chocolate once a week is about all my waistline can handle.
Back tomorrow with…The […]

My Valentine’s Day Cake

Baking is clearly my weakest suit. I’ve rarely done it (as it is pretty much abhored by the South Beach Diet) and, when I have done it, the result has been nearly universally bad.
This weekend, however, my luck improved, thanks to (tres belle!!) Clotide over at Chocolate & Zucchini. As I wrote below, she provided a […]


In preparation for a Super Bowl XLI party, I began working on a new recipe based on a traditional tres leches cake. I studied a few recipes, including this recipe for a coconut tres leches cake. Given that it was a Colts party, I wanted a blue flavoring to replace the coconut and could only come […]