Baking and Desserts

With desserts like no-bake s’mores cake, s’mores brownie cupcakes, and s’mores chocolate mousse, we can all agree that s’mores-ifying desserts is never going out of style. We’ll layer the homemade chocolate mousse with graham cracker crumbs and top the whole parfait with homemade marshmallow cream, aka creamy sweet meringue. Temper: While constantly whisking, pour 1/4 cup warm cream into the egg yolks, then pour the egg yolk mixture into the remaining warm cream. I’ve taught you how to make marshmallow cream a few times before: Baked Brownie Alaska, S’mores Brownie Cupcakes, Chocolate Mousse Pie, and Ultimate Birthday Cupcakes.

I had some MAJOR recipe testing fails last month, so this is the perfect opportunity for Latest Recipe Testing post #10. My latest recipe flops are all from one recipe: vertical cake. Vertical cake is the August Sally’s Baking Challenge and it was certainly a CHALLENGE (understatement of the year) for me to get this recipe right. It’s a delicious vanilla sponge cake that’s light enough to bend and roll, but sturdy enough to hold the delicate shape.

Assembled with vanilla sponge cake, lemon blueberry swirl whipped cream, and lemon cream cheese buttercream, this vertical cake is a beautiful masterpiece. Assembled with vanilla sponge cake, lemon blueberry swirl whipped cream, and lemon cream cheese buttercream, this vertical cake screams celebration. The lemon blueberry swirl whipped cream combines homemade lemon blueberry sauce and whipped cream. Whip up a simple lemon cream cheese buttercream by combining block cream cheese, butter, confectioners’ sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla extract.

After a few months of easy baking challenge recipes, let’s dive deep into one of the most challenging Sally’s Baking Challenge recipes yet. Winner will be selected at random and posted in the September Baking Challenge blog post on September 1st 2019. We celebrated the *30th Sally’s Baking Challenge* this past month! There were lemon meringue cheesecake jars, peanut butter Oreo, peaches ‘n’ cream, chocolate cherry, caramel apple, and so many more.

6 inch vanilla cake, plus a dozen other cake flavors for your smaller 6 inch cake pans. One dozen cupcakes usually takes about 3-4 cups of cake batter, which divides perfectly between 3 6 inch cake layers. You need about 2.5-3 cups of frosting for a 3 layer 6 inch cake, which is usually the amount used for 1 dozen cupcakes. How to Prep Your 6 Inch Cake Pans After you choose your 6 inch cake batter, it’s time to start prepping the cake pans.

Back in June, though, we crossed 2 items off the list with a weekend road trip to Ohio and a day trip to Hersheypark. As I was busy getting the house ready, one of my dear assistants, Hilari, baked several batches of cookies for the party including cake batter chocolate chip cookies (pictured above) and bakery-style peanut butter cookies. For the cake batter chocolate chip cookies, Hilari added a couple extra Tablespoons of flour and rolled the cookie dough balls with 1 Tablespoon of dough each. If you need recipe inspiration or just want to be inspired by creative women who are total bosses at their jobs, follow these friends: I’ve been working on several new recipes as well as updating photos from my blog archives.

Adding a little extra butter and marshmallow, plus a splash of vanilla extract and a pinch of salt makes all the difference. and I have a few tricks up my sleeve to guarantee that the treats are extra marshmallow-y, extra gooey, extra buttery, extra flavorful, and extra AWESOME. The best ratio for a 9×13 inch baking pan is 2 10-ounce bags of mini marshmallows (11 heaping cups) and 9 cups of cereal. I don’t need to convince you that rice krispie treats are delicious, but I hope you try these little extras (the vanilla, salt, ratio of marshmallow to cereal) the next time you need a recipe for these marshmallow squares.

If you’re craving big flavor, make these jalapeño pepper jack turkey burgers. These medium spicy burgers are bursting with flavor from cumin, smoked paprika, jalapeño pepper, garlic, cilantro, and pepper jack cheese and taste phenomenal hot off the grill. Ground turkey simply doesn’t contain the same flavor profile as ground beef, so it’s up to you to add extra flavor to the burgers. If you don’t like spicy or are sensitive to spice, leave out the jalapeño pepper and substitute cheddar cheese for the pepper jack cheese.

This giant monster cookie is enormous and satisfies the biggest chocolate peanut butter craving. And don’t cheat by telling me you’ve made chocolate chip cookie pizza or chocolate chip cookie cake, both of which are meant for a crowd. A few weeks ago, I made peanut butter bars and chocolate chip cookie brownie bars for a dear friend’s baby shower. I came home, realized I didn’t meet my chocolate and peanut butter consumption needs for the day– as one does– and decided to make a giant monster cookie when settling down for a night of Netflix.

Using my perfected master scone recipe, build your own scones with a variety of add-ins like chocolate chips, berries, or cheese and herbs. But the easiest way to avoid disaster is to use cold ingredients like cold heavy cream, egg, and butter. Cherry Chocolate Chip: Follow recipe below and add 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and 3/4 cup chopped fresh or frozen cherries. Ham, Cheddar, & Scallion: Reduce sugar to 2 Tablespoons, leave out vanilla extract, and add 1 cup cooked cubed ham, 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, and a handful of chopped scallions.