My After Eight Cake or Triple Layer Chocolate Mint Cake with Mint Condensed Milk Buttercream Filling and After Eight Ganache Frosting

Descendez pour la version française. Tuesday was my mom’s Birthday and I love my mom so much that I needed to bake her a special Cake. So I started thinking. I wanted something original and that would really surprise her.   And finally, while driving to the airport a few weeks ago I had the idea : [...]

My Spring in the Winter Cake or Lemon Cake with Raspberry Curd filling and Raspberry / Lemon Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting.

Descendez pour la version française. My brother’s birthday is next week but he will be back in Canada by then so we decided on organizing a pre-birthday lunch while we are still all together, before he leaves.  The day I picked him at the airport (3 weeks ago ), I asked him what he would [...]

My chocolate King Cake or should I say Queen Cake ? / Galette des Rois tout chocolat ou devrais je dire Galette des Reines ?

Descendez pour la version française. Tomorrow is the Epiphany. What is the Epiphany ? Well do you really care, do you really  want me to go on an explanation here ? Well the most important thing  to know is that the tradition is to eat la Galette des Rois (King Cake) on that day which is january [...]

The Ultimate Chocolate Lover’s Cake or Triple Layer Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream Filling and Chocolate Fudge Frosting.

Descendez pour la version française. Happy New Year  !!!  May all your dreams come true and  I hope that this new year will  be full of Happiness and tons of yummy cakes. How did you end up 2011 and started 2012?  We had a nice family diner over here, with my little brother that landed [...]

My Golden Dark Chocolate Praline French Yule Log ou ma Bûche de Noël Dorée au Chocolat Noir et Praliné.

Descendez pour la version française. Yeah I know. Very Very Original. A Yule Log for Christmas. After that he ate  my birthday cake early this month my oncle  asked me if I would like to bake the Yule Log this year. Usually in my family, it’s my oncle that buy the Yule Logs. They mostly [...]

My Canadian Cake or Maple Pecan Layer Cake with Maple Swiss Meringue Buttercream and Candied Pecans .

Descendez pour la version française. Another Layer Cake. I think Layer Cakes are my new Black. We were invited to dinner at my «  parents in law » last Friday. Which  means an opportunity to bake because we were supposed to be .. humm .. Six … Yeah , yeah I know every opportunity is good [...]

My Birthday Cake or Triple Layer Chocolate Banana Cake with Salted Caramel Sauce, Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream and Ganache

Descendez pour la version française. As it was my birthday last week  ( in case you didn’t get that  from my previous post or  if you haven’t read it  which you certainly have not )  I had  some friends and family members that came over  for lunch on Sunday.  And I got to try  something [...]