Terese's Birthday Cake!

For a full recipe go here.

I took this recipe from one of my favorite baking websites, bake or break. It was my first time ever making a layer cake . The recipe is for a triple layer chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. It is one of the richest cakes that I have ever tasted. It is well worth the time it takes to put this together.

This is the melting of the bakers chocolate that would go into the mix to make the cake batter.

This is the cake before I had frosted the outside.
The cream cheese frosting recipe called for a Frangelican but we didn't have any. We did however have Disarono (thanks Jordan) and we substituted that instead.

And here is the chocolate frosting that was used to finish off the cake.

Home made Oreos

This recipe seems to be common in the world of online delectables- here's my variation:

For the chocolate cookies:
1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup sugar
1 stick room-temperature, unsalted butter
1 large egg

For the frosting:
1/2 stick room-temperature, unsalted butter
2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.

2. In a large bowl thoroughly mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda and powder, salt, and sugar. While stirring add the butter, and then the egg. Continue mixing until dough comes together in a mass.

3. Take rounded teaspoons of batter and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet approximately two inches apart. With moistened hands, slightly flatten the dough. Bake for 9 minutes, rotating once for even baking. Set baking sheets on a rack to cool.

4. To make the frosting, place butter in a mixing bowl, and gradually beat in the sugar and vanilla. Mix until filling is light and fluffy.

5. Sandwich the frosting between the cookies.

Apartment H Hummus

So this is our premier post and I figured what better to use than the first recipe that we ever made together. This is a variation on garrett's original hummus recipe and is fittingly called APT H hummus. No pictures but next time we make this I will put some up.

So here it is
29 oz. Garbanzo beans (1 large can but not to large)
0.5 cup liquid from the beans
4 Tbsp lemon juice
3 Tbsp tahini
4 Clove garlic
1 tsp salt
4 Tbsp oil
1 roasted red pepper (if you want plain hummus leave this out)

Add all ingredients into a blender or food processor and blend with love.

It should be a hummusy consistency.
There you have it APT H hummus possibly one of the easiest recipes ever.

-M