Our Cake Recipes
Wanting a Refreshing Summertime Dessert; Petit Gâteaux Charlotte
Everyone who is familiar with Sydney and I know we love to have friends join us on a pleasurable, exciting culinary journey. I can't help but think of a baton relay race, as I map the delectable experience. The importance that all the components are equally balanced...
Idle hands turn a Chocolate Peanut Butter Layer Cake into a Trifle
I am blessed with quite a few nieces and nephews; which are wonderful in many ways. It is extra special for Sydney, being an only child, she has had enough cousins to keep from feeling too isolated. We generally invite/ rotate a couple of the cousins ( there are a...
DF’s Wedding Ring, Silky White Cake with Raspberry Filling and White Chocolate Frosting
It was an usually chilly mid May day, the grass was wet and heavy; when DF, my husband, decided to play gardener. He knew his wedding band was on, he never allows the ring to leave his finger. Sydney and I were baking pain au chocolates, when the phone rang, I heard...
Ian’s Birthday, Spring into Mint Chocolate Mini Cakes
This past week was a friend's son twelfth birthday; his favorite flavor is "girl scout" mint chocolate. Sydney and I wanted to create a birthday cake that mimicked as a girl scout cookie. I did not have any girl scout cookies so we needed to experiment with different...
German Chocolate Cake: A Special Birthday Gift For James
James' Birthday Cake My hairdresser, James, lost his mother in 2009, every year for his birthday she would bake him a German Chocolate Cake. A friend of his was given the recipe and has taken on that responsibility of baking his birthday cake. Sydney and I asked him...
Springtime Berry Ivory Charlottes
Framboise Double Chocolate Charlotte I can hardly believe it is already the second week of April. Springtime in Colorado is a unique experience, you can ski in the morning and golf in the afternoon. Two days ago the temperature was 24 degrees C/ 74 degrees F, today...
Missing France: Time for Gateau Saint-Honoré
The Triplets of Yumminess! I was lost in thought reminiscing with my memories of the trip Sydney and I took to Paris, France, when I realized it was just about the anniversary date of that prodigious trip. France, it self is a magical place, but that particular trip...
In the Pink Champagne Mousse Cake
In The Pink: Pink Passion Cake These wonderful cakes were Sydney's creation, we have a friend/customer each year who hosts a Mardi Gras party, and this year she asked us if we would design the desserts. (she has always wanted to go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras) I am...
Bobbie’s Caramel-Crème Anglaise Apple Cake
Layers of Crème Anglaise, Apples, and Dacquoise "Oh My" I have never named a dessert after myself before; this one just seemed to match my name. When I agreed to be DF's wife the initial thought that entered my brain was: Bobbie Noto sounds like a caramel crunchy...
Red Velvet Crème Fraîche Cake
White Chocolate Crème Fraîche Frosting The men, I am not being sexist, they happen to all be men, work in the mailroom at my husband's office have very graciously allowed me to have supply shipments to be sent to there mailroom. After the last few weeks of not only...
Almond-Ginger Mascarpone Sponge Cake
During a hair appointment, Sydney and I were discussing recipes and flavors. I really wanted to lighten up a pound cake I had designed for DF; he eats a piece for breakfast every morning. To be perfectly honest I am bored with baking the same cake every week and...
January Joconde-athon
Gâteaux aux Framboises Starting from the middle of December 2010 joconde cakes have been a major baking pastry in our kitchen. So you can imagine my surprise when on January 1st I openened The January 2011 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Astheroshe of the blog...