I would like to share two recipes... One for monkey bread, and one for a failure of a double layer chocolate cake (don't worry, recipe is fine, it's me that was the problem):
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/monkey-bread-i/Detail.aspx
(minus the walnuts, and use homemade dough)
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-cake-iv-10000001110246/
(minus the coffee, per John's request)
Monkey Bread:
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| Start with a delicious mix of sugars and cinnamon. |
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| It's true, I was lazy. WAY better homemade. |
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| Roll the dough in the sugar mixture. |
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| Add butter to remaining sugar mixture. |
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| Crazy bad- crazy delicious. |
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| Pour. |
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| Bake. Flip. Serve. |
Chocolate Cake:
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| Fail #1: Only one cake pan. Never settle for only one cake pan. |
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| This part was perfect. |
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| Lots of creams and different types of chocolates and sugars and... ah! |
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| My favorite part. |
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| Did this instead of chocolate flakes- that way my extra baking squares didn't go to waste. |
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| Fail #2: Collapsed cakes. Not sure what the heck happened. |
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| Spread delicious whipped mouse on first layer. |
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| Thought I could get away without trimming it. HA... |
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| Trimmed. Homemade frosting applied. |
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| A bit of a mess. |
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| Fail #3: Added strawberries. Fine if eaten all that evening. But even though I took the strawberries OFF the center before putting it away for the night, the juices from the strawberries made the middle mold in only one day. FAIL. |
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| Ended up looking okay. |
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| And that once piece we did get to eat- pretty delicious. |
Tomorrow for Easter I'm going to dip some marshmallow peeps into chocolate and decorate them a bit with some frosting. Should be easy, and kind of cute. =) Then I'm going to make homemade wheat rolls for Easter dinner.
I hope you don't fail as miserably in the area of baking as I have. Night!
