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The Eggless Red Velvet Cake

Sorry for not posting in a while but, I have cousins who don't eat egg. Every year the task comes to me to bake the birthday cake and that is my gift to them :). This year is they wanted red velvet cake and HAD to be egg-less. I thought that red velvet cake was just a mere chocolate cake with less chocolate and more red food color. But not knowing I found an egg-less chocolate cake recipe thinking that my idea would work of the less chocolate and more red food color. When the red color got added  the chocolate and the red color didn't seem as rich as it is in the REAL red velvet cake. What I realized is since you use cake flour in a real red velvet cake the different type of flour saturates the red color in a different way than regular all purpose flour would.  Luckily the final product was good so I didn't mind too much.

The cake design that I made was inspired by the cake that The Cake Girls. It had fondant circles in the pattern which shingles are placed. And then there was a layer of cream cheese  frosting on the top. To give my cake some color I put (fresh) raspberries.

The batter with the red food color added!

The final cake!:)

    

The Infamous Ways of a Banana?!?!?!?!?

Ever since I was young I used to make banana fritters with my dad. These are not the ones you fry in a heaping vat of oil made with pancake mix. These originated originally from my dad. He and I used to make these when  my brother and I were young. He used to serve it with some whipped cream and now I have taken this to the next level.

What you will need

• 1 Banana (sliced into 4's)( Try to use the freshest bananas or else they will turn out soggy)
• 2 tsp unsalted butter

Directions

1. Turn the heat to about medium high
2. Put the butter into a medium sized frying pan and let it heat up nicely
3. Wait for about 30 seconds to a minute for the butter to heat up 
4. Place the bananas into the frying pan carefully because they will sizzle
5. Keep flipping bananas on each side for about 2-3 minutes until desired browness is shown
6. Enjoy your banana fritters with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or even whipped cream. You can put almost anything!!!

Now what you see here are the ones taken to the next level. I have just gotten in to plating desserts and I made these with caramel sauce (highly recommended) which you can find the recipe for online.

This is the sugar water mixture boiling 

This is the final product!!! The caramel

These are the bananas

This is the halfway done pleated dessert!

Voila! The final product. There are the banana fritters!

  

Chocolate Cake!!

I decided to make a chocolate cake for one of my cousins annual Christmas parties. I had made this cake many times in the past for engagement cakes and for other parties but this time is was different because I got a different brand for the cocoa. Earlier I was using the cocoa from Trader Joes's and thought it was the best of all (really). Then I came across a cocoa powder at Costco called Rodelle Dark Cocoa Powder. The name sounded really high quality so I gave it a shot.  It came in a 24 oz can for only 4 bucks. The one I used to get from Trader Joe's was 9 oz for 3 bucks which I thought was a great deal till I saw the Costco one... I tried this cocoa in this cake. When the cake came out out of the oven it was a rich, dark chocolate brown color and when I tried a piece it was really choclatey and yummy!!!! I gave this cake a little twist by adding some Kahlua ((coffee liquer) coffee enhances the flavour of chocolate)  to the batter and some triple sec (orange liqueur) to give a little umph. For decorations I just got some fresh rasberries(always try to use fresh where ever you can) and some mandarin oraanges. I also zested and orange.
With the really delicious cake I made the chocolate ganache to complement the already chocolaty cake.Out mankind I realized when the recipe says use good cocoa actully use it because it makes a big difference in flavor and quality!!