What?! Tiramisu Ice Cream!!

I was soooo excited when I saw this at the grocery store, Blue Bell Tiramisu ice cream!

I've never attempted to make tiramisu because it's always been really intimidating to me (maybe one day!), so this ice cream was perfect for me to feed my tiramisu cravings. It has a nice mix of coffee flavor with whipped topping and caramel sauce swirled through, and chunks of cake pieces and dark chocolate. The dark chocolate is my favorite addition to this ice cream.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Note: Products were purchased by me, with my own money. All opinions are my own. 

Two Kinds of Cake at Once

I recently bought a cake pan set that helps you create a checkered cake. It came with 3 shallow 9" round cake pans and an insert that you fill with two different kinds of cake batters to create this checkered effect.

Strawberry and Rainbow Chip Checkered Cake

Excuse the messiness on the bottom of the cake carrier. I traveled with the cake, and apparently I don't drive very smoothly and it shifted on the way, hah.

It was fairly easy to make this checkered effect, but it was messy! It was difficult to get the two different cake batters into each of the portioned sections of the cake pan insert.

The cake was frosted with a mix of homemade whip cream and rainbow chip frosting. Store bought frosting is too sweet at times, so I like to either make my own frosting from scratch or mix freshly made whip cream with some frosting.

Whip Cream

The recipe I used for the whip cream:
1 cup of whipping/heavy cream
1 teaspoon of powder sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

I decrease the amount of sugar because after I make the whip cream, I add in about half a cup of the store bought frosting. The result is a lighter, creamier frosting that isn't sickly sweet.

Can't make up your mind? Now you can have two kinds of cake in one!

"have one's cake and eat it too"

Sorry about all the posts only involving restaurant reviews in Austin. I promise I will start posting recipes again soon! I still have a few more posts from when I was in Austin since I've been back twice this month, once for a bridal shower, and the most recent was for my best friend's wedding!

Everyone that knew beforehand who was making the couple's wedding cake and the groom's cake were really excited, especially if they watched Cake Boss from TLC.

White Chocolate Champagne cake

Brian Stevens of Crazy Cakes made both the wedding cake and the groom's cake. Go check out his website, his gallery of cakes is AMAZING! Some of his cakes are so intricate that they don't even look like cakes, but more like sculptures. I was amazed when I saw both cakes in person.

Double Dark Chocolate Stout Beer cake

Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to meet him when he delivered the cakes because I was busy helping to bride get ready, but his work says it all. The cakes were also really tasty, and both cakes were unique flavors. The wedding cake was a white chocolate champagne cake, and the groom's cake was a double dark chocolate stout beer cake. My favorite was definitely the groom's cake, it was very moist, rich, and smooth, and the flavors were perfect together!

I never thought I would be at a wedding with Darth Vader.