Sally

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.