Chocolate Death Cake

I was so excited to post pictures of this awesome chocolate cake I made for Kyle as a celebration of his diphtheria-like illness subsiding, but for some reason, every time I post a picture lately, the link breaks and I just can't seem to figure out how to fix it.  Talk about frustrating!  So anyway, if you don't see pictures of a sinful-looking chocolate cake below, that's why.

Oh well.  At least these picture problems are lighting a fire under Ky's butt to get my website started. Yay!  Caracakes.com will soon be a happy reality with lots of pictures that you can actually see, recipes to try, and more cooking and baking adventures!

Anyway, I feel that it's my duty to at least describe the yummy cake to you.  It was a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing and chocolate shavings on the sides.  The cake was moist and chocolately, but not overly sweet.  The cake was a lot less dense than the typical chocolate cake, which I think may have been attributed to my only using egg whites insead of the entire egg.  The chocolate icing was that perfect mixture of thick, sweet, rich, buttery goodness, with just a touch of airiness.  70% cocoa shavings really helped elevate the cake from being a simple chocolate cake to a really decadent dessert.  Kyle refers to it as Chocolate Death Cake because it's so good that he couldn't stop eating it, and well, now he feels like death.  Guess that's what happens when you eat half a cake!

Friday I'll be sharing my most favorite chocolate lava cake recipe that's super easy, super quick, and of course absolutely delicious!

Hope everyone's having a happy hump day!

Post Holy Week Food Coma

This year's holy week was a doozy! We had an amazing Sader dinner at my best friend's mother's house, seafood fest on Good Friday, a fun family pre-Easter pizza party, a delicious Easter brunch prepared by yours truly, and a fantastic traditional ham dinner with friends. Needless to say, my family needs another sweet like they need a hole in the head, but I can't help but thinking of...



What is that delicious concotion, might you ask? Do you see some delicious chocolate peanut butter cups on there? Could it be? Why yes, yes it is, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake! Chocolate cake, peanut butter buttercream, chocolate fudge buttercream, and peanut butter cups galore! I don't think there are many things better in this world than the chocolate and peanut butter combo.

This is my go to cake for Father's Day. It's one of my favorites to make because it reminds me of when I first became a baker, and had to make hundreds of the same boring chocolate cake with peanut butter as the filling with some Reeses slapped on. I hate making cakes like a factory worker, and I hate the idea of beautiful peanut butter being treated so poorly with it's dear friend, and partner, chocolate. I invented a delicious peanut butter buttercream so that the peanut butter isn't overwhelming. The peanut butter buttercream dots give that extra punch of flavor to enhance the chocolate fudge icing and chocolate cake, and as my Daddy says, it's "just wrong it's so good".

I can't wait until Laela is old enough to help me make her Daddy and Grandpa's Father's Day cakes with me! In the meantime, I'll keep trying to think of fun new ways to knock their socks off!