This week I made the christmas dinner on Sunday, and for dessert I made a chocolate cake and mini donuts.
The chocolate cake turned out actually very, very good! That's cause I mixed it up a bit. When I was younger, I'd make a betty crocker cake and buy frosting and just spread it on. However, with this chocolate cake I made a chocolate mousse filling that went wonderful with it and it tasted like a buche de noel. My favorite part of the whole cake was the chocolate fondant I topped it with. My goodness, it was to die for. It was like someone melted chocolate truffles and spread it on the top. However, I strongly recommend using ghiradelli chocolate chips instead of toll house. Also, for a received a pastry bag with different tips for christmas, so next time I make a cake I will be fancy-ing it up a bit. :)
The mini donuts were made with the donut maker my sister got for Christmas. I used the recipe that was in the directions of the kit for the donut, but used my own glaze recipes. The donut part itself was okay. It wasted more like the inside of a croissant or biscuit, but not completely. I don't know if that makes sense. Oh, well. Anyways, I made a chocolate glaze, vanilla glaze, apple cider glaze, and a cinnamon sugar topping. I basically just used conf. sugar with milk, or cocoa, or apple cider. They weren't bad, they were just that 'meh' glaze you don't really notice. I didn't like the chocolate one cause I used cocoa instead of melted chocolate. I'll definitely change that next time. And I didn't care for the apple cider one cause it was kind of sour instead of sweet. Well until next time, and happy holidays! :)
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