For our family Easter get-together I tried two new recipes today - well, I already started yesterday. One was a Martha Stewart recipe for Cannolis. I had Cannolis for the very first time last year in Boston when Sarah made me stand in line for what felt like forever to get the treats from "the best place in Boston". No idea what that bakery was called, but DAMN they were good! Unfortunately this recipe wasn't that good: http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/classic-cannoli-2

In the end the shells tasted good, but I had to add A LOT more liquid to make the dough somewhat workable. I had prepared the shells yesterday, so they were ready to go, but the filling was a complete disaster today, so as a last minute substitute I used a very light and fluffy stracciatella dessert, which I think worked very well.

If you can recommend another recipe, I'd be happy to try it!

But now back to recipe No. 2 for today: Chocolate & Egg Liqueur Cake. I took this picture a second before we started cutting it, so it's not the best, but you get an idea of the decorations I made:

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As I promised I have two more recipes for you today. I finished these truffles yesterday and while I still have to work on the looks they are absolutely delicious! (more...)

I wanted to mix things up a bit so intead of baking more cupcakes I decided to try and make some truffles - also because I got a book for my birthday with some yummy recipes and it didn't look to hard. So here we go: (more...)

After the disappointing first take on my usual cupcake favourite - Red Velvet - we tried something different: we just used a simple but good vanilla recipe and colored it red. No, I know, not the right way to do it, but so far much better than the first try. I actually just found the Magnolia RVC recipe, so that one is next on my list!

For this one I had help with my cousin and I gotta say it's fun to do this together. She had never baked cupcakes before so she was quite excited. And she made the cutest frosting dollops (more...)