Sunday, November 7, 2010

white chocolate buttercream cake

The only time I have cake that hasn't been homemade is if I go to someone's party and I'm not the one who has made the cake or if it's my birthday, sometimes I will make my own birthday cake too haha.

If I'm going to have a store bought cake, my favorites are Publix marble cake with their whipped frosting and Fresh Market's sinfully white cake. Ever since I've had the sinfully white cake, I've wanted to make it. The cake is a white chocolate cake with a cream cheese frosting.

I ended up making a white cake with white chocolate buttercream frosting. I found the recipe in one of my cupcake books and decided to try it out. I don't think that I will be using this recipe again. It was far too sweet and I had no control over the piping, because the frosting was so thin. The recipe was misleading, this is much more like an icing, rather than a frosting.

So my cake isn't the prettiest looking cake, but it didn't taste terrible. I loved the white chocolate wedges that I made as a garnish and the chocolate jimmies add a nice contrast from all of the white chocolate.


Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Oh no, candy!!

I have a few weaknesses, one of them being chocolate candy. I do love my candy and Halloween likes to beat up my diet a bit. This Halloween, I probably had about 10 pieces of candy.. and they were delicious haha.

So this Halloween I bought about 4 different bags of candy. This was the first Halloween in this house, so I wasn't sure how many kids trick or treat around here and didn't want to run out of candy. Usually we get around 40 kids. So, we ended up only getting about 5 trick or treaters and had a lot of leftover candy. I decided to make cookies!!!!