Part 2: last week’s chocolate-orange fantasy continues. In this post, you’ll learn how to put this four-layer, ganache-drenched, silk buttercream-filled, Dark Chocolate, Burnt Orange Cake together.
Dessert
Burnt Orange Silk Meringue Buttercream
Part 1: What is a Burnt Orange Silk Meringue Buttercream? A caramel crème Anglaise and an Italian merengue, beat together with butter and orange. Surprisingly few ingredients, considering what you turn them into: a creamy and impressive frosting and cake filling with a muted but unmistakable orange flavor.
Chocolate-Covered Banana Cheesecake Layer Cake
Chocolate-Covered Banana Cheesecake Layer Cake: three layers of fudgy, bittersweet chocolate ganache, two layers of moist, delicious banana cake, one layer of a luscious, New-York-style (cream cheese and sour cream) banana cheesecake
Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies
Wildly Outstanding Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies. What more can you say than that?
Brandied Cherry and Apple Spice Cake
This Brandied Cherry and Apple Spice Cake is homemade comfort food in a Bundt pan. It’s a delicious olive oil spice cake that deserves to be on a pedestal.
Banana Cake with Banana Cheesecake Filling
Banana Cake with Banana Cheesecake Filling: a three-layer extravaganza of delicious banana cake and New York style (cream cheese, sour cream) cheesecake
Cordon Rose Banana Cake with Lemon Buttercream and Chopped Macadamia Nuts
Cordon Rose Banana Cake with Lemon Buttercream and Chopped Macadamia Nuts is made with sour cream, eggs, and butter, and yet it’s deceptively light and airy. It is the comfort food of homemade, from-scratch cakes.
Guava Raspberry Hors d’Oeuvres
These Guava Raspberry Hors d’Oeuvres use fresh raspberries, guava paste, and an elegant whipped cream – mascarpone mixture. They can provide a sweet, luscious hit to any cocktail party or buffet.
Exquisite Dark Chocolate Shortbread
Cacao nibs move these Exquisite Dark Chocolate Shortbread cookies so far to the dark side that there’s no hope of redemption. One of the most perfect recipes I’ve ever followed.