For all of you cake lovers, here is a recipe that you will not want to put on the shelves to get dusty! It is so good that you will make everyone tremendously happy that you decided to bake it. A lot of people have nightmares when I talk to them about Marble Bundt Cake. When I bring up this sore subject I get a lot of “it was o.k.,” “it was a bit bland for me,” and “no seconds that’s for sure.” I was inspired to bake a cake that reversed all of those thoughts into a resounding “gimme some mo!” This Marble Bundt Cake has a delicious chocolate layer that is sandwiched in between two angel-like vanilla layers and topped with a basic sugar frosting and powdered sugar for presentation. Adding a few pieces of fruit to pair with this cake would not be a mistake and I would even recommend it. So take off your hats for this Marble “of a Bundt” Cake and jump right in as soon as you can!

Adapted from Baked: New Frontiers In Baking

Yields one 9-inch Bundt Pan of Amazing-ness

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Now that I have officially got the new Baked cookbook I had to indulge right away. Within ten minutes of owning this new book I started to make these Chocolate Whoopie Pies. I have changed around quite a few things from the recipe, but the idea is what is essential here. For quite some time I have wanted to bake this style of cookie because the pictures around other blogs and baking books look so amazing! They looked like a little taste of heaven so I had to partake.

The actual cookie or cake or whatever you want to call it is fluffy, chocolaty, and tasty, whereas the filling I created is sweet and delicious. This kind of combo excites me because it is just the right amount of everything. The reason I created my own icing was because the recommended Baked icing was not good at all. It is very rare for me to have anything bad to say about Baked since it is one of my favourite baking books, but this time they did not hit any good standards.

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I just got back from a run around Discovery Park in Seattle and could not help myself but to blog with my new found energy surge. I don’t know how I woke up so early to go a run but I did. I haven’t done that since I was training for the Rock N’ Roll Half Marathon in Seattle last June! When I first turned the corner to see the Olympic Mountain Range sitting right there in front of me, waking up so early didn’t feel so hard after all. The only bad part about seeing such beauty is that my legs almost stopped to say, “enjoy the view because the rain will be coming soon!”

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