As National Chocolate Cake Day will soon be upon us, I thought I’d celebrate by baking the easiest chocolate cake of all time. This recipe was originally from Magnolia Bakery, then adapted by Deb Pearlman of Smitten Kitchen fame, then adapted by me, of no fame at all.
Are brownies a cookie or a cake? Or are they in a category of their very own? I like to think the latter is true; brownies belong in a category all by themselves. I absolutely adore a delicious, fudgy brownie. When you’re craving something rich and chocolatey, there’s nothing better.
Read MoreTraditionally, like a lot of other bread recipes, there aren’t that many ingredients in soda bread, just flour, salt, baking soda, and buttermilk. Soda bread purists will tell you that it’s not soda bread if you add other ingredients to it, but I’m clearly no purist. What’s the fun of baking things if you can’t experiment with them, right? I’ve read that a lot of people add currants or caraway seeds to their soda bread, which sounds quite nice, but since you can see that I love science and experimenting, I’m going to do something different. I’m going to make what I’m calling (drumroll, please) SoDa Row Soda Bread.
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