Caramel Chocolate Truffle Cookies

I saw a recipe for chocolate truffle cookies and the pictures looked so good, I had to try it. But it was months before I finally got around to pulling out the recipe and making sure I had all the ingredients.

Then the day I decided to put the recipe to the test, I decided that I would make some caramel and  place a piece inside each scoop of cookie dough before baking it.

You can't see the caramel in some cookies, but in most, the caramel oozed out of the cookie while baking and you could see it after they cooled. I felt the caramel gave another dimension to the yummy chocolatey goodness of a cookie.

Apparently everyone else did too because the cookies did not last more than a day.

Chocolate Caramel Mousse Birthday Cake

After trying this cake at my son's first birthday party, a very good friend requested this cake for her own birthday. Of course I wanted to surprise her with this cake and gave it to her a week early so she could share it with her boyfriend and his family. She was so excited to get this cake and said that everyone else was going to get a small piece but the rest of the cake was hers.

Cupcake Sampler

I had a potential client interested in me providing their wedding cake and cupcakes. So I baked up several different varieties for her and her fiance to try.

I made vanilla cupcakes with brown sugar buttercream,

 and pumpkin spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting,

and red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting,

and chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel buttercream,

and finally, apple spice cupcakes with salted caramel buttercream, as well as a few apple spice cupcakes with brown sugar buttercream.

They loved the cupcakes, especially the apple spice cupcakes with the salted caramel buttercream, and had to decide which ones they wanted for their wedding. Needless to say, I'm thrilled that I have the honor of making their wedding cake and cupcakes.

1st Birthday Cake, Smash Cake, and Cupcakes

My first order was for a very dear friend whose son is a couple weeks younger than my son. She asked me to make a cake for her son's party, as well as his smash cake. 

We decided to make a 9" cake for the adults, a 4" smash cake for her son, and cupcakes for the kids. 

The theme of the birthday party was a summer picnic and decorated with primary colors bunting. So my friend requested the cakes be decorated with bunting.

The 9" cake was a gluten- and dairy-free chocolate cake with a vanilla swiss meringue buttercream.

The 4" smash cake was a gluten- and dairy-free vanilla cake with a vanilla swiss meringue buttercream. The cupcakes were both the chocolate and vanilla.

Everyone loved the chocolate cake, saying that it was really good, especially since it was a gluten- and dairy-free cake. There were a few people who said they didn't want any cake and ended up eating a piece because they had to try it, and there were others who went back for a second piece.

1st Birthday Smash Cake - Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake

This cake was for my son's smash cake.

He loves cake, but for some reason, he would not dig into the cake on his own. He would only eat it when I held the cake up to his face. 

Until...I cut the cake up for him.

Caramel Mousse-filled Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

My sister loved this cake the first time I made it two years ago for my daughter's birthday and has been wanting it again ever since.

So she requested it for my son's birthday since I had no idea what kind of cake to make for his party.

This cake has three layers of chocolate cake and two layers of delicious caramel mousse and then it is frosted with a dark chocolate ganache.

Everyone loved this cake, and my husband told me that this is the best cake I've made. By the time I remembered to get a pic of a slice, this was the last of the cake.

Salted Caramel Frosted Chocolate Cake

This is one of my all-time favorite chocolate cakes. I just love chocolate and caramel together and this cake is the perfect combination of the two.
The chocolate cake is everything that I love in a chocolate cake and has a ton of chocolate flavor. The caramel buttercream is so good, with a lot of caramel flavor and the salted part of the caramel keeps everything from being too sweet.