Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Black and White Cake


So one of my less than fantastic qualities is that I'm extremely forgetful. Not in a I forget to feed my child kind of way, but more like I make a grocery list and then forget to take it with me, or I tell myself that I need to get gas in the morning then I wake up a 1/2 hour late with an empty tank. But I'm pretty sure it's the small things that are the most frustrating. I absolutely hate when I've planned to make a certain dessert and forgot to pick up the MAIN ingredient, which is happened so often to me that I've stopped keeping track. Or when I have to make seven trips downstairs to get everything I need fora recipe, instead of remembering everything and going down once.

Where is this post going, you wonder? Well, I you might have noticed, I took a slight hiatus from posts, because of my crazy life, and now that I'm finally back in the groove, I realized how many desserts I've made over the past month that I completely forgot about. And this cake is exhibit A. This was back in early May, when I had two birthday cake orders. One for chocolate, and one for funfetti. Well silly me, made funfetti cake without the funfetti the first time around so I had vanilla cake that needed to be eaten. Then when I made the chocolate cake I got it in my mind that I wanted to make a black and white cake with the leftover vanilla and that is how this cake was born.

This cake is really pretty and simple (two adjectives that I love!) I used a simple Chocolate Buttercream to ice and did a small border around the top to complete the look. Now don't think you can eat a slice of this yourself, even if you do cut it thin. It is definitely a dessert to be shared! I hope you try it out, everyone will be so impressed by the height alone.

You can find the recipe for my funfetti cake (minus the sprinkles of course) here
And my chocolate cake here

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Key Lime Pie


Key lime pie is one of my favorite non-chocolate desserts. I first made it a couple years back on one of our family trips to Edisto. We were all wanting a dessert, but were so full of shrimp and grits that we knew we couldn't handle anything too heavy. That's when I thought of the key lime pie my Grandma had made the week before. It was light and refreshing and perfect for the beach. I called her up and she listed of the ingredients (from memory, of course). I hurried over to the Piggly Wiggly (the only store on the island) and quickly got to work.