Chocolate Cake-Style Doughnuts
Usng both chocolate and Dutch-processed cocoa provide depth of color and flavor and using oil, as opposed to butter, gave the doughnut springiness.
Churros
These ridged strips are made from pate a choux (cream puff) dough, piped out of a pastry bag fitted with a star tip directly into the hot oil.
Cereal Killer (aka Fiber None) Doughnuts
This ring-shaped yeast-raised doughnut is covered with a thick vanilla frosting
Basic Yeast-Raised Doughnuts
These doughnuts are yeast raised, spongy, and light, yet with a bit of substance to their texture.
Cassata Cake Balls
Cassata is a classic Sicilian cake often combining a fairly simple sponge cake with fresh ricotta, candied orange peel, liqueur, and shavings of chocolate.
Five Chocolates Cake Balls
Cocoa, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, and ganache are all combined in one cake ball.
Super-Easy Chocolate Cake
Need a chocolate cake in a hurry? No mixer is required
Crème Brûlée Cake Balls
These are utterly exquisite, if I do say so myself. First you prepare a rich custard, as though you were making a crème brûlée. Once chilled, it is combined with white cake and rolled into balls. After chilling, the balls are dipped in a deeply golden caramelized sugar mixture. Stunning. This is what my pastry […]
Cake Balls in Finally Here!
I’m thrilled to introduce you to my newest book, Cake Balls (Harvard Common Press), which will be released in about a month. Check this space often for recipes, tips & techniques, general cake ball info and some contests I will be running. Right now I have a week-long contest on my Facebook page for you […]
Confectioners’ Sugar Frosting for Cake Balls
This is a very easy frosting and probably the kind you loved when you were a child. It is the most commonly used in home baking and has that nostalgia factor. Confectioners’ sugar–based frostings require a bit of leeway. If the frosting is too thin, add a bit more confectioners’ sugar; if too thick, add […]
White Cake for Cake Balls
Use this white cake recipe as your foundation for any cake ball where you want to start with a tender, white cake base.
Peppermint White Chocolate Cake Ball
If you like chocolate and mint, you have two choices within this book. This cake ball recipe features white chocolate and red and white peppermint candy. You can adjust the strength of the mint filling easily by adding more or less of the peppermint flavoring. Makes about 48 golf ball–size balls 1/2 teaspoon peppermint flavoring, […]
Confetti Cake Balls
Whether you call them rainbow sprinkles or jimmies (as I do here in New England), you are probably used to seeing these tiny sugar embellishments on top of ice cream cones or cupcakes as decoration. In recent years, they have become very popular baked into white cake batter to create a colorful, speckled effect. Here […]
The Crunchie Munchie
If you are a fan of salty-sweet combinations, this is the perfect cake ball for you. The inside is moist milk chocolate brownie and milk chocolate ganache. Dip in your choice of chocolate (I use semisweet in the recipe) and then coat with a mixture of pretzels, potato chips, mini chocolate morsels, and caramel corn. […]
Milk Chocolate Bacon Bourbon Cake Ball
Bacon has found its footing in desserts recently, particularly when paired with chocolate. It seems to be part of the salty-sweet craze and works quite nicely with a hit of bourbon when combined with chocolate cake and a milk chocolate ganache. I used Four Roses Single Barrel bourbon while developing the recipe. Its long finish […]
Cake Balls
My newest book Cake Balls is here! Over 60 recipes for incredibly delicious, easy – as we say on the cover – sweet spheres of goodness.
It’s a Good Keeper
This always sounds like an antiquated phrase to me…”it’s a good keeper”…hailing from a time when cakes of all sorts made regular appearances in homes. The “good keepers” are the ones that stay fresh and moist for days and this one feature makes them attractive. After all, when you have taken the time to make […]
Honey Orange Marmalade Cake
This fine-grained cake is moist, fragrant and a great keeper.