Since the beginning of the year I have been making an effort to make a cake or something like that whenever someone I love’s birthday comes. The past two months I have a couple of people in my family that had their birthday. Last month was my boyfriend, David, and my mom’s birthday.For my boyfriends birthday I made him a chocolate cake with whipped filling and covered with chocolate ganache. The cake reminded me of those hostess cupcakes. It was really delicious. I used boxed chocolate cake mix for the cake. For my mom’s birthday I made a Dulce de leche chocolate cake. Which was featured in my last blog entry.
In March for my sister Regin’s birthday I made S’more cupcakes. These cupcakes were a bit time consuming because there were so many steps that needed to be done. On the bottom of the cupcake there was a graham cracker crust and marshmallows and chocolate are spread through out the cake. I made the frosting more like a meringue.
And for my older sister Roan’s birthday I made a mocha cake based on the Goldilocks mocha cake. It was really good. The icing was not sweet. The only thing I should have probably done is used cake flour instead of regular all-purpose flour. Here is the link to the recipe: http://gourmeted.com/2010/10/13/mocha-cake-ala-goldilocks/
