I needed to make something to take to a BBQ this weekend. Since I’d made a whole passel of cookies last weekend, I didn’t want to make cookies again so I pulled out an old standby recipe from Smitten Kitchen. Deb’s recipes are always well-tested and well-written and this one for Chocolate Stout Cake isRead more
Last weekend I made marshmallows. It started as these things usually start – with Pinterest. I found this pin for bourbon-flavored marshmallows, and upon discovering that I had all the ingredients to make said marshmallows, five hours later we were eating marshmallows. There’s only one problem: we don’t really like marshmallows. I mean, we do,Read more
I was cruising Pinterest a few weeks ago while Doug was sitting next to me on the sofa. When I came to this Salted Caramel Six Layer Chocolate Cake, he said, “Um, could that be my birthday cake?” Why of course, darling! So last week I acquired some delicious semi-sweet Scharffenberger chocolate, a whole heck of aRead more