Chocolate Chipotle Cakes with Tomatillo Sauce and Cream

Chocolate Chipotle Cakes with Tomatillo Sauce and Cream

There’s a chocolate company here in San Diego that keeps me quite happy — Chuao Chocolatiers. Actually, it’s my husband who keeps me happy gifting me small boxes of their very unique chocolates several times during the year:  Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, my birthday, our 

Key Lime Cheesecake

Key Lime Cheesecake

Sometimes I’ll ask my husband what sounds good — to smack his lips together and let me know.  It’s only fair since I’m the one who always decides what we’ll eat.  He barely gets a request in edgewise, so I give him the chance once 

Chocolate Almond Gateau with Almond Praline Buttah-cream

Chocolate Almond Gateau with Almond Praline Buttah-cream

I do have to say that this month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge was officially the most involved dessert I have ever made.  Okay, so I don’t actually keep a tally, but jeez.  And have I actually seen the inside, or tasted it yet?   Um, no. 

I Say Cassata, You say…

I Say Cassata, You say…

I’m sitting here eating cake.  It’s 10:45 am, I slept decadently until a quarter past nine, and no one is here but me and my cake.  And it’s not just any cake. It’s Cassata. I know.  I never heard of it before last week, either, 

Chocolate Almond Cheesecake

Chocolate Almond Cheesecake

Three more days until we leave for Italy.  Only three.  Do you have any idea how crazy I am making sure everything is just so?  Perfectly arranged?  Meticulously organized?  I’m a stark raving madwoman. I feel like Martha must.