Devil's Food Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Tonight I baked a Devil's food cake with vanilla bean buttercream frosting and drenched it in a chocolate ganache.  The Devil's food cake turned out very fluffy and had a slight sweetness.  I should've made a double batch of the vanilla bean buttercream frosting but didn't.  This was the first time I made a chocolate ganache sauce... it was simple and tasted really good!  So the only thing I would do differently is make more of the frosting.  Here's the recipe for the Devil's food cake, the vanilla buttercream frosting and the chocolate ganache recipe is below. 

Chocolate Ganache:
3/4 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels 

Heat cream and butter in a saucepan until melted and remove before it starts to boil.  Place chocolate morsels in a small bowl and pour cream on top. Let sit for a few seconds and whisk by hand until completely incorporated and smooth.  Let cool until thick and pourable.  The ganache can take a bit to thicken. You can make it before the buttercream, to save time. Just use a wire whisk to stir it every few minutes and keep it smooth.

 

Peanut Butter Munchies

I have been wanting to try this recipe for a while now.  They came out pretty good.  I didn't have unsalted butter, so I made sure to add a little more sugar to the recipe to balance the salt out.  The cookies are time consuming, but I think people would appreciate them.  I got the stamp of approval from my husband.  Recipe found here.

 

Streusel Coffee Cake

I found a recipe for Streusel Coffee Cake at About.com  The cake tester showed the cake was done at 25 minutes, but maybe I could've left it in the oven for a few minutes longer.  It has a great coffee cake taste!  I added a glaze to my finished cake.  Yummy!

(I added a glaze)

Hot Chocolate with Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream

It was 10pm and my husband was going to be up late working (from home) and we were in need of some sugar... so I whipped up some hot chocolate & vanilla bean whipped cream.  I love how the melted whipped cream makes the chocolate so creamy!!  Not too sweet either. 

Hot Chocolate and Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream

First start with the Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream

1/2 cup cold heavy whipping cream

1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1/2 tablespoon granulated sugar (I used vanilla bean sugar from BEANILLA)

In a bowl, place the whipping cream, vanilla extract, and sugar and stir to combine.  Cover and chill the bowl and wire whisk in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. 

Hot Chocolate

2 1/2 cups whole milk

5 ounces semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 - 1 teaspoon granulated sugar (optional)

Place the milk and semisweet chocolate chips in a saucepan over medium heat and stir until the chocolate has melted.  Let it simmer. 

Once the hot chocolate is done, pull your whipped cream bowl from the refrigerator and whisk the mixture until stiff peaks form.  

Pour the hot chocolate into two cups and pipe or spoon the whipped cream.  You can garnish the whipped cream with shaved chocolate, cocoa powder or even marshmallows.  

Makes 2 1/2 cups

Cream Puffs

I found a recipe for cream puffs here.  Pretty simple recipe and they turned out really good.  I'll definitely add a custard to them next time for added sweetness.

Ghost cake (early Halloween)

Just a simple "ghost" cake. 

Boo!

Tester cakes

The day before I made a friend a birthday cake, I made two mini tester cakes.  I wasn't sure which design I was going to do, so this helped.  Yellow cakes with vanilla bean buttercream frosting.  Yum!

Past Birthday Parties

My husband and I love to help out our families and friends with birthday parties.  We've had the pleasure of handling the party favors.  It's always fun to share a project with my husband, since he always has great ideas...

for Miles

for Jakob

 for Shane

Birthday Cake

I was given the pleasure of making a simple pink birthday cake for a friends daughter.  This was the first time I worked with this design for the frosting.  Had a lot of fun and again, learned a little more!

Valentine's Day Card

Made this for my Aunt whom loves OWLS. 

Tuesday, February 15th, 2012

Valentine's Day was very busy and very fun for me.  With everything that was going on last week, it was nice to be able to concentrate on baking and concentrate on doing a good job.  I learned a little more with each box I filled. 

Valentine's Day

I am so excited!!  I have so many Valentine's Day cookie orders!!  I can't wait to get started!!

Thank You!

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