Myrna's Yummy Cakes

Ready in: 1-2 hrs

recipe difficulty 3/5 Difficulty:   3 (1=easiest :: hardest=5)

Serves/Makes:   10

Ingredients:

4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

2/3 rounded cup sugar

3 eggs

6 ounces unsalted almonds, skins on, very finely ground

1/3 cup bread crumbs (preferably your own)

1 lg. orange, zested

***Glaze***

2 ounces unsweetened chocolate

2 ounces semi-sweet chocolate

1/4 cup butter

1 tablespoon honey

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Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Butter bottom and sides of an 8-inch cake pan. Line bottom with parchment paper or wax paper. If wax paper, butter it also. Melt chocolate in double boiler over hot, not boiling, water.

Cream the butter and sugar in electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time. Mix in well, scraping down sides with spatula as needed. Add almonds, mix, then bread crumbs. Add chocolate. Mix well, add orange zest. Pour into cake pan and bake 25 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool in pan placed on a rack for 30 minutes. Turn out into dish, remove paper and cool completely.

Glaze For French Chocolate Cake:

Melt chocolate and butter in top of double boiler, stirring regularly. Add honey and stir well. Remove from heat. Beat with wire whisk for 5 minutes to help cooling process and assure smoothness. When the glaze mixture has cooled but is still tepid. Pour over thoroughly cooled cake.

This is a very rich cake and densely chocolate. A small piece is a completely adequate serving.

This recipe will make a great Valentines Cake!  ….Enjoy!!

Ready in: 2-5 hrs

recipe difficulty 3/5 Difficulty:   3 (1=easiest :: hardest=5)

Serves/Makes:   12

Ingredients:

1 German chocolate cake mix

1 can sweetened condensed milk

1 jar fudge or caramel topping

1 carton (8 oz size) non dairy whipped toppping

3 crushed Heath bars, crushed in package

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Directions:

Mix cake according to directions. When baked, poke holes in cake, while warm, with wooden spoon handle.

Warm condensed milk and pour over warm cake. Chill cake.

Pour fudge or caramel topping over cake and chill again.

Spread with whipped topping and top with crushed candy bars.

This Chocolate Dream Cake serves 12

Great recipe for Valentines Day!……Yummyly Delicious!!!

Ready in: 30-60 minutes

recipe difficulty 3/5 Difficulty:   3 (1=easiest :: hardest=5)

Serves/Makes:   16

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup butter

2 cups white sugar

4 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

4 1/2 squares unsweetened chocolate — (1 ounce size)

1/2 cup boiling water

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/4 teaspoon lemon juice

***Caramel Filling***

1 1/8 cup butter

3 cups confectioners’ sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 teaspoon lemon juice

2 cups superfine sugar

1 cup milk

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Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour four 8-inch round cake pans.

Mix the flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Alternately beat in flour mixture and buttermilk until smooth.

Place unsweetened chocolate in a small bowl. Pour the boiling water over the chocolate, and stir until melted. Mix chocolate, vanilla, and lemon juice into the buttermilk batter. Divide batter evenly into the prepared cake pans. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pans, then turn out onto wire racks to cool completely.

Caramel Filling: Mix the butter, confectioners’ sugar, vanilla, lemon juice, superfine sugar, and milk in a heavy saucepan. Stirring constantly, bring to a boil, and cook until temperature reaches 225 degrees F (110 degrees C) on a candy thermometer.

Remove saucepan from heat, and set in a large bowl filled with ice water.

Beat filling with an electric mixer until spreadable. At first this seems to be just hot, hard work, but the filling will suddenly start to thicken as it begins to cool. Transfer filling to a clean bowl, and it will continue to cool as you frost the top of each cake layer. Stack the frosted layers atop each other.

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 363 Calories; 31g Fat (73.9% calories from fat); 5g Protein; 19g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber; 115mg Cholesterol; 400mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0Fruit; 0 Non-Fat Milk; 6 Fat.

Each tier of this cake is a chocolate single layer covered with marshmallow fondant.  The little flowers are made out of marshmallow fondant as well.

I just loved this colors, they make this cake look bright and alive!!

Myrna 

“My Dinasour Cake”

This is a 2 layer ” Perfectly Chocolate Cake”  filled with creamy butter-cream icing and covered with marshmallow fondant.  The cupcakes are chocolate as well and topped with butter-cream icing to match the Dino!!    This was made for a Birthay Party and it was a success!!

Myrna 

This cake is a medium size chocolate cake covered in marshmellow fondant.  The pearls I piped with butter-cream icing and the bow I made it out of gum paste.

It turned out pretty cute!    

Myrna  

This Halloween cake was made of chocolate and chocolate icing. Most of the decors I made them out of gum paste, the bones I just piped them out of butter-cream icing, and the dirt was made out of crushed oreos.

I am very happy of the way this cake turned out!  Besides looking great, it tasted awesome!

Myrna