The only problem with being someone who likes to bake and doesn’t get to do it often is that when an occasion comes up that gives you an excuse to bake you maaaay go a tad overboard and want to bake every single recent baking recipe you have been hoarding.
In the span of three days I baked:
- one batch of chocolate fudge cheesecake brownies…think chocolate brownies with a top layer of cheesecake, Mmm!
- a three layer cake with the middle hollowed out and filled with M&M’s
- a pull apart cake using cream cheese and chocolate
My entire apartment smelled delicious for daaaaaays! 🙂
Why was I all of a sudden baking?
My dragon boat team was having our season wrap party, it was a pot-luck and the only food group I can consistently make is dessert so I said I would take a dessert. Thing is, how do you pick just one recipe? And why should you pick just one? I mean, there are a lot of people on the team, you can’t share one cake with over 20 people and it wouldn’t be fair to not take enough for everybody so the only logical decision is to make two different desserts. However, I had three recipes I really wanted to try…
It seemed like some sort of overkill to take three desserts but lucky for me a friend was coming over Thursday so I made the cheesecake brownies Thursday, we each ate one, then I took the rest of them to work the next day. Then the other two desserts were made over the span of Friday and Saturday and well, sadly, I now have no reason to bake anything so my apartment no longer smells yummy. sigh.
Although I’m thinking of making banana bread tomorrow and that smells good! 🙂
chocolate fudge cheesecake brownies
Pull Apart Cake – each dough ball is filled with cream cheese and chocolate chips then coated in sugar and cinnamon. Then the dough balls are topped with walnuts and a brown sugar glaze.
Three layer cake decorated with M&M’s and Cadbury’s Chocolate Fingers
The inside of the three layer cake, it is filled with M&M’s.
The Amazing Shrinking Woman 
Wow! your baking looks fabulous – love the cake colors. The pull apart cake would be a good alternative to cinnamon buns on Christmas morning!