Cakes - Coffeecakes

This recipe calls for a cup of brewed chai tea. You may use any spice and orange tea. The notion of chocolate and spice makes this a perfect hospitality cake.

What did you think? Ben and Jerry's should have all the glory? This cake rocks. Use homemade cookie dough or let the Doughboy (Pillsbury) offer you a shortcut. This makes a creamy cheesecake with chunks of semi-firm dough throughout with the chunks that are on top, slightly set and cakey. This is easy, fast, and a slice of heaven.  

Bundt cakes are in the air. The requests keep coming. Here’s another one. This is tender crumbed, lusciously flavored (circa Sara Lee but butter) and slices like velvet. The baker’s chocolate paste is a quick trick from pastry chefs who use cocoa and hot water (or melted butter) instead of melted a square of chocolate.

It is a neat, quick truc of the trade for home bakers too. There – I divulged a trade secret.

A sweet cheesecake tunnel, studded with chocolate chips, makes this cake a winner with kids and adults alike.  I use an angel pan for this -not a Bundt but if you use a Bundt pan, just make sure you generously spray it with non-stick cooking spray.

 

Rich, decadent, sinful, the perfect marriage between chocolate and raspberries.

 Tender, chocolatey, and kissed with honey and the lightest hint of spice – this cake is queenly. Most honey cake recipes call for tea or coffee but coca-cola is my secret ingredient in those, and this new recipe. The fusion of mellow honey, pure cocoa, coca-cola, and a gentle wave of spice makes this sublime. This is a tall, moist, dark and wonderous cake. A dusting of cocoa or confectioners’ sugar is fine or a drizzle of melted bittersweet chocolate is the final touch.

I know – why add chocolate and spice to an apple cake? This is just an unbelievable cake I have made like, forever. It is hefty, moist, flavorful and something you wouldn’t think of as a masterful cake until you have one bite. Then are you are addicted and this becomes a staple in your repertoire as it is in mine. It has never appeared in any feature, cookbook and appears now, for the first time, online. A totally fabulous cake those time has come. Reminiscent of a Chunky Chocolate Bar.