Chocoflan is a magic cake that consists of a layer of chocolate, a layer of flan, and a caramel topping. You can make it with a box cake and a can of condensed milk, or you can make it better from scratch.
Cakes
Christmas Dinner for Six
Who doesn’t love a Christmas Lasagna! Pop it into a multi-course lineup that includes a savory cheesecake, Opah, salad, butterflake rolls, and chocolate stout cake and you’ve got an epic celebration.
Cherry Republic Cherry Cheese Cake
Homemade cherry cheese cake: buttery layers filled with preserves and frosted with cream cheese. Get the recipe.
Salted Caramel Six Layer Chocolate Cake
Martha Stewart’s recipe for Salted-Caramel Six-Layer Chocolate Cake uses Dutch process cocoa powder as well as semisweet chocolate, so it’s black as night, but packed with true chocolate flavor. Nothing beats homemade caramel, and the caramel-chocolate pairing is intense. This cake is not for the timid.
Molten Chocolate Lava Cake:
Ooey, Gooey, and Double-Baked
This molten chocolate cake is the final post in our three-part chocolate cake binge. It’s intensely chocolaty: melted chocolate compounded with a ton of cocoa. It’s best freshly baked, but you can easily re-moltenize the lava, as it reheats well in the microwave.
Chocolate Birthday Baileys Surprise Cake
Chocolate Birthday Baileys Surprise Cake, is a Dutch-process, hot water chocolate, four-layer cake with an espresso-laced Baileys filling and a triple cream (sour, cheese, whipping) frosting. Buttermilk makes it rich, oil (rather than butter) makes it moist, and dark, dark cocoa gives it its profound flavor.
Chocolate Stout Cake
Good things come in threes: this is the first of a trio of chocolate cakes that we’ll present over the next few weeks. Chocolate Stout Cake is a hot water cocoa cake in which the oil and water are replaced by sour cream and beer. Topped off with a cream cheese frosting, it’s quite an impressive cake.
Cool, Blue, Sweet, and Spicy
This cool, blue, sweet, and spicy tropical dinner for four is fun and special without being fussy: Kahuna Salad, Spicy Coconut Beef and Vegetables, Blue Hawaiian cocktails, and Pineapple Upside-Down Cake. See the post for the menu and links to the recipes.
Make a Persian Love Cake for Valentine’s Day
Do you love baking? You will love baking a Persian Love Cake. Do you love someone? You’ll love baking Love Cake for someone you love. Do you love strawberries and cream? Cardamom and roses? Pistachios? Cream of tartar? If you do, you’ll love this recipe.