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The Best Chocolate Cake!

img_8628This cake I made for my sister Emily’s Baby Shower.  She is having her third girl, and wanted a chocolate with chocolate and chocolate cake! I made her an extra special chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling, chocolate cheesecake filling, covered in chocolate ganache, topped with chocolate ganache swirls, and covered with chocolate square pieces! Continue reading

1st Birthday Whale Smash Cake

whalesmash-cakeI made this little whale smash cake for my nephew Gabriel (I call him Gabey) who turned 1 years old! The inside is chocolate, and the outside whale is made with blue buttercream, and fondant pieces for the whale face.  I have to say, Gabey really loved this cake and dug right in face first! By the end, the cake was destroyed and he seemed very pleased!

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Salted Caramel and Chocolate Mud Cake

chocolate-salted-caramel-cakeChocolate and salted caramel go great together in this delicious three layer cake.  This cake was made just for my salted caramel loving sister Wendy for her birthday.  It is a dark chocolate mud cake with caramel cheesecake filling, frosted with a salted caramel Swiss meringue buttercream, topped with a thick homemade salted caramel sauce, and garnished with bits of caramel candies. Continue reading

Creepy Halloween Cake

cakewithstrawThis cake is a four layer 5 inch cake with marbled Halloween colors inside of neon orange, purple, and green! The cake is filled with neon green whipped cream and covered in a neon green white chocolate ganache.  It is decorated with black ganache dripping down the top, along with creepy strawberry monsters with black chocolate and fondant teeth, and black gum paste tentacles! Everything on this cake is yummy and edible! Continue reading

Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream Cake

strawberry buttercream Now this strawberry cake is great. But the frosting, well that is another story entirely.  In fact,  it really deserves its own post! It is one of the best frostings I have ever had! It has pieces of fresh strawberries and the flavor is smooth, creamy, and not as sweet as regular American buttercream.  It is a little bit harder to make, but worth it! Continue reading

Chocolate Dobash Cake

dobash cakeThis Chocolate Dobash cake was a request from my Hawaiian husband for his birthday.  A Dobash cake is a popular cake in Hawaii.  It is a genoise cake (a sponge like cake) and a pudding like chocolate filling and frosting.  You can see other Hawaiian cakes here, here, and here.  The best part of this cake is the pudding like filling! Continue reading

Passion Fruit Strawberry Cake

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I based this cake on a strawberry cake from Milk bar.  Instead of using lemon, I used passion fruit.  I love how it is a naked cake and you can see all the delicious layers! The passion fruit and strawberry go together perfectly.  Passion fruit by itself is kind of tangy, but with the liquid cheesecake and vanilla cake, it all comes together deliciously!  I made this cake for my Aunt Teresa’s Birthday! Continue reading

Chocolate cheesecake cookie dough cake

fudgeThis cake has 15 layers of deliciousness! It has 3 layers of chocolate cake, chocolate fudge, cookie crumble, liquid cheesecake, and cookie frosting.  I based my cake off of the chocolate malt cake from Milk Bar, I love those cakes and needed to try my own!  The beauty of this cake is that it is naked, so you can see all of the awesome layers! You can see some of my other naked cakes here. Continue reading

Layered Tres Leche Cake with Strawberries

cakeThis was my second time making a tres leche cake.  I made it for my family for New Years, and it was really yummy! The previous cake I made was with peaches, you can check that out Here.  It is a super moist, light, airy and super delicious sponge cake soaked in the three kinds of milk {evaporated milk, condensed milk, and heavy cream}. Tres Leches is a very light cake {especially if made without butter}, with many air bubbles in its crumb. This distinct texture is why it does not have a soggy consistency, despite being soaked in a mixture of three types of milk. Continue reading

Apple Pie Layer Cake with Apple Roses

apple layer cakeApples are my favorite part of the fall season.  I love apple pies, and this time I wanted to try to incorporate an apple pie into a layer cake.  I have seen cakes on pinterest where they actually take a whole apple pie and bake it inside a cake! I thought that was fascinating! I decided not to try it this time, but I made my own version of apple pie cake :) I took an apple cake with chunks of apple inside, and layered it with apple pie filling, Dutch apple pie crumbs, and cream cheese frosting! This was also my first attempt at making a naked cake! Continue reading

Kit Kat Surfer Cake

kit kat surfer cake I made this kit kat surfer cake for my nephew Timmy who is turning 6! It is a vanilla cake with raspberry mousse filling, covered in blue buttercream frosting with a kit kat border surrounding the cake.  I used the buttercream to style a wave and added a bit of food coloring to get the darker blue color in the waves. Continue reading