chocolate sourcream poundcake

this past weekend, i had a craving for chocolate cake, but wanted something with real substance and lots of flavor.  i decided to fiddle around with the recipe for recipe for elvis’ favorite poundcake that i made a few weeks ago.  i substituted valrhona cocoa for part of the gluten free flour blend and substituted sour cream for the heavy cream in the original recipe. see recipe below: Continue reading

ring dings

a friend issued a challenge and a challenge is my very favorite thing. “i’ll bet you can’t make a ring ding!,” he said. well, i got your ring ding, right here, mister!

and with the help of some italian meringue and some dark chocolate ganache, here’s how i did it :