Though she be but little, she is fierce – William Shakespeare
My parents were out of the house for approximately 45 minutes, so, of course, I made marshmallows. It was only a few days until St. Nicholas day, and I was determined to present them with some dessert or another. Also just because there is a certain thrill which comes with trying to cook or bake something without others knowing.
That time of year has swung around again when I must acknowledge my age, and I chose to celebrate it with a checkerboard cake.
I don’t enjoy scrolling through pages upon pages of how someone made the recipe and why, along with random life stories. So, I won’t put you through that either. Instead, sparing you my tale of woe, here is the recipe:
Continue reading “Chocolate Banana Bread”You probably are a little freaked out and overwhelmed simply from reading the title of this post. Take a deep breath, calm down. A wedding cake is not that hard.
The first steps is to make the cake layers: three six inch cake layers, whatever flavor you please, I did lemon chiffon. Now a heads up here, although the chiffon is lighter and will not weigh down the other tiers as much, it is much squishier and may fall over if left sitting out for a number of hours; it was definitely leaning after the sitting out for awhile.
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