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Chocolate Cherry Cake
It’s time to introduce you formally to my most treasured cake recipe, the Chocolate Cherry Cake. I have made this cake more times than I can count and is a frequent request for birthdays and get-togethers. Beautiful dark chocolate cherry cake covered in a silky chocolate buttercream frosting. The subtle flavor of cherry and almond cuts through the richness of the dark chocolate and leaves your taste buds asking for more. I like to call this my blue ribbon cake. One year I was feeling adventurous and entered into a cake competition at our summer fair. Competing against 100 or so cakes, this baby won first prize. It is a…
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Chocolate Cherry Cake Truffles
I am so excited to share this recipe with you. These cake truffles are made with one of my most treasured cake recipes, the Chocolate Cherry Cake. Beautiful dark chocolate cherry cake is mixed with a small amount of chocolate buttercream frosting, and then dipped into melted dark chocolate. And just to be fancy, they are finished off with a little extra drizzle of chocolate. These are perfect to serve at a party or with your family and friends on a holiday. Yes, I will admit, there is quite a bit of chocolate going on. But I find it not as overwhelming, as one would think. The subtle flavor of…
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Lonely Hearts & Almond Tortes
Loneliness is one sneaky devil. Everything’s fine at first, you don’t realize it’s settling in around you but it’s there, traveling like smoke, weaving its self through every part of your being. You don’t feel it climbing up your legs, up your body, into your mind, until it’s gripping your heart in its cold dark fingers. Even then, when it has you in its hands like a vice, you can still deny its presence. We try to fill the void with things like social media by staring at faces of people we “know” but don’t really know at all. We turn on our phone and the curtain opens, we go on…
