Mocha Icebox Cake

I can still remember the first time I tried an icebox cake, or what in Australia is more commonly called a chocolate ripple cake. Chocolate Ripple is the brand name of a deep, dark, rich, rippled chocolate biscuit, and the back of the packet has forever had a recipe for icebox cake on it. I’m not sure anyone actually buys the biscuits unless they are making some version of the … Continue reading →


Brownie Espresso Icebox Layer Cake with Nutella Frosting

I started this little blog a year ago tomorrow! Whoo! I honestly cannot believe it. I have to post this a day early, because during my blog’s actual birthday tomorrow, I will be flying somewhere over Europe. June 17th, 2011 this blog was born, with my first post about a Devil’s Food Cake I baked for my brother’s birthday. That is a post I will certainly not be linking you … Continue reading →


Cookies and Cream Cake

I made a cake! Let’s have a party. I hardly ever make cake. Well, not traditional cake anyway. Brownies, blondies, cookies and pies are much more to my liking, so that’s what I end up baking most of the time. I am grateful for culinary school, in that I have to bake things that I would never make otherwise. Because I would never bake a pound cake, madeira cake, genoise … Continue reading →