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Yellow Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache

My little sister is graduating college and her party is next weekend. She asked me to make a cake for her and I couldn’t say no. So I decided to do a test batch this week to make sure I like the recipe (she asked for yellow cake with chocolate icing). I naturally can’t just buy cake in a box, so I’m going to make yellow cake with dark chocolate ganache with raspberries.
Ingredients for cake (this makes enough for 2 9-inch cake pans):
  • 1 cup unsalted butter
  • 2 ½  cups white sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 ½ cups buttermilk
  • 3 ¾ cups cake flour (you can use all-purpose flour as a substitute)
  • 2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 ½ teaspoons baking soda
  • Cooking spray
Ingredients for ganache:
  • 16 ounces chocolate, finely chopped (I used dark chocolate)
  • 2 cups heavy whipping cream
This is a double layer cake, so I also needed icing for in between the two layers. You can just buy chocolate icing in the store and use that, but I only want to deliver the best for the little sister.
Ingredients for chocolate frosting:
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 stick of unsalted butter, cut into ½ inch pieces
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • ¼ cup water
  • 2 teaspoons instant espresso powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 16 oz chocolate, finely chopped
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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Barbuzzo’s Salted Caramel Budino

Tasting Table posted an adapted recipe of Marcie Turney’s Salted Caramel Budino. If you’ve never been to Barbuzzo in Philadelphia, your taste buds are missing out on one fantastic dessert. So, if my attempt at this adapted recipe is even half as good as the original salted caramel budino, I will consider this a win.
Barbuzzo’s version is described as “dark chocolate crust, vanilla bean caramel, sea salt.” The Salted Caramel Budino version below omits the crust, but maintains the vanilla bean salted caramel poured over a maple flavored custard.
Ingredients
  • Salted Caramel:
    • ¼ cup granulated sugar
    • 1 tablespoons light corn syrup
    • 3 tablespoons water
    • ¼ cup heavy cream
    • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
    • 1 teaspoon flaky sea salt, plus more for garnish
    • ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • Pudding:
    • 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
    • ½ cup dark brown sugar, packed
    • ¼ cup water
    • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
    • 2½ cups half-and-half
    • 1 large egg plus 2 large egg yolks
    • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
    • Whipped cream, for serving

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Guinness Cupcakes with Baileys Frosting

With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, I wanted to test out my recipe for Guinness Cupcakes with Baileys Frosting before the big day to make sure it didn’t need any tweaking.

Guinness cupcakes are chocolate cupcakes that use a dark stout to enhance the flavor.

To keep with the theme, I decided to also make Bailey’s frosting.

Ingredients (makes 24 cupcakes)

Guinness Cupcakes:

  • 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 12 oz bottle of Guinness (or any other dark stout) – if your bottle is more than this, just measure out 12 oz
  • 1 (4 oz) stick of butter, melted and cooled to room temperature
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 3 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup sour cream

Baileys Frosting:

  • 2 (4 oz) sticks of butter, softened
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup Bailey’s Irish Cream
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 8 cups powdered (confectioners) sugar

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Pumpkin Walnut Muffins

VisitPhilly.com’s Philly Homegrown section recently posted fall recipes from local eateries in Philadelphia. All of them sounded amazing and I hope to try them all in the coming weeks, but my pumpkin obsession took priority. Metropolitan Bakery’s Pumpkin Walnut Muffins were calling me. I’ve adjusted the recipe a bit, but the general idea is still very much there.

The recipe made two dozen large muffins, or 4 dozen cupcake-sized muffins. Your friends and coworkers will like you a whole lot after you make this recipe!


Ingredients:

  • 4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 cups lightly packed brown sugar
  • 10 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 6 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 1/4 cups pumpkin puree, canned
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 2 cups chopped walnuts

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