Posts Tagged ‘marshmallow fluff’

Chocolate Malted & Toasted-Marshmallow Layer Cake

07/25/2011 by Lara • 18 Comments

Recipe: Sweetapolita's Campfire Delight
Total time: 4 hours
Ease: Intermediate
Unusual ingredients: malted milk powder, whipping cream, marshmallows, marshmallow fluff, unsweetened cocoa powder, coffee

Marshmallows. Malt. Heavenly moist chocolate cake. Thus was my Saturday.

I knew this was going to be a time investment. Layer cakes aren’t as simple as bake and frost; this cake also had more layers than the typical layer cake I’m used to. The recipe originally was for six layers of cake – mine turned out to be only four, and it was perfect. I made no adjustments to the recipe.

The cakes themselves were perfect. I used 8″ pans and everything was pretty level to begin with. Torting them was really easy with my cake leveler, and the leftovers from leveling made a great snack. The hardest part of the whole endeavor was making the marshmallow filling. (more…)

Hostess Cupcake balls (and pops!)

04/15/2011 by Lara • 2 Comments

Recipe: SugarDerby's Homemade Hostess Cupcake Cake Balls
Total time: 3 hours
Ease: Intermediate
Unusual ingredients: cake mix, frosting, marshmallow fluff, sprinkles

I was approached by my good friend Anne Ruthmann to make some cake pops for her open studio. I’m always thankful for an opportunity to bake things that I can give away (so I don’t end up eating them all!) and I jumped at the chance to get a little fancy with these pops.

I happened across SugarDerby’s guide to making miniature Hostess Cupcakes, and hilarity ensued.

I am endlessly thankful for my husband’s help in the kitchen. As I started to lose my mind rolling and creating little holes in the cake, he jumped in with an excellent suggestion – how about we turn half the cake mix into pops, and the other half into the balls with filling? Fine idea. And he also helped quite a bit creating the ‘toupees’ for the filled ones! (more…)