Showing posts with label buttercream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buttercream. Show all posts

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Lemon Layer Cake with Lemon Curd Filling and Raspberry Buttercream

 

As our friends and family have been our primary taste testers for our blog creations the requests have been coming in! One of our first requests is for "a lemon cake with some kind of lemon curd or lemon filling." So, being that we love a challenge we decided to oblige the request with a creation we've never done before!

After much deliberation we decided on a light lemon layer cake with a lemon curd filling. The difficulty was deciding on the frosting. Lemon buttercream? Possibly too much lemon. Since most any fruit flavor goes with lemon we narrowed our choices down to raspberry, blackberry and orange. Raspberry won!

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Double Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Buttercream

 

Our first post brought you the ultimate cheesecake recipe and our second post brings you...the ultimate Double Chocolate Cake! For those who love chocolate, this recipe brings intense chocolate flavor in the cake and seriously rich chocolate buttercream frosting. This is definitely not the recipe for anyone counting calories.

This recipe is not for the faint of heart, it's pretty complicated, but then again most "from scratch" recipes are. So, here goes...