Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake & Hershey’s Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Cake…A Redo

| May 11, 2009

It was Teacher Appreciation Week at my daughter’s school last week.  And I thought it would be nice to give the Little Munchkin’s two teachers a cake each (among other things) plus a third cake for the school’s teachers and staff to share among themselves. So I slaved away in the kitchen late Thursday night [...]

Chocolate Buttercream II

| February 3, 2009

I posted a chocolate buttercream frosting recipe some time in October.  You can find it here.  For the football cake I made last Sunday, I used the butter cream icing recipe I posted about a week ago, plus cocoa powder and water. INGREDIENTS (for stiff consistency) 1 cup solid white vegetable shortening 1 teaspoon Wilton [...]

Buttercream Icing

| January 25, 2009

As promised, I’m posting the fool proof buttercream icing recipe I recently discovered, and which I have now been using shamelessly to ice and decorate cakes and cupcakes such as these… INGREDIENTS (STIFF CONSISTENCY) 1 cup solid white vegetable shortening 1 teaspoon Wilton Flavor (Vanilla, Almond or Butter or a combination of the 3) 2 [...]