Baking catch-up

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:

Start with a delicious mix of sugars and cinnamon.

It's true, I was lazy. WAY better homemade.

Roll the dough in the sugar mixture.

Add butter to remaining sugar mixture.

Crazy bad- crazy delicious.

Pour.

Bake. Flip. Serve.

Chocolate Cake:

Fail #1: Only one cake pan. Never settle for only one cake pan.

This part was perfect.

Lots of creams and different types of chocolates and sugars and... ah!

My favorite part.

Did this instead of chocolate flakes- that way my extra baking squares didn't go to waste.

Fail #2: Collapsed cakes. Not sure what the heck happened.

Spread delicious whipped mouse on first layer.

Thought I could get away without trimming it. HA...

Trimmed. Homemade frosting applied.

A bit of a mess.

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.

Ended up looking okay.

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!

Melody