Chocolate Orange Bundt Cake with Chocolate Grand Marnier Ganache

- Elle Kirschenbaum 17 Comments
Chocolate Orange #BundtCake with #Chocolate Grand Marnier Ganache. Mouth watering! Visit OnlyTasteMatters.com for the full #recipe. #dessert #baking #glutenfree

My grandmother loves fruit with chocolate. You name it, chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate covered cherries, chocolate covered banana, basically if you cover any fruit in chocolate, she’s happy. Every Mother’s day, birthday, and Hanukkah I always go to my local chocolate shop and get her orangettes which I have learned are French for chocolate covered orange peel. And here I thought the famous blog Orangette was a made up word like Bakerella (which I am assuming is a pun on Barbarella). Who knew?

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

- Elle Kirschenbaum 7 Comments

Red Velvet Cake seems to be a specialty of everyone’s grandmother who grew up in the South. However, being a Yankee, I only heard of it a few years ago. Now people seem to rave about it so I spent the last few years tasting red velvet cake at every southern restaurant we went to. It just seemed to be yellow cake mix with red food coloring. I was perplexed. I mean that can’t be what all the fuss was about. No way.

Flourless Nutella Cake

- Elle Kirschenbaum 14 Comments
#Flourless Nutella #Cake. And what is better than #Nutella? Visit OnlyTasteMatters.com for the full #recipe. #dessert #baking #glutenfree

February 5 is World Nutella Day. That’s right boys and girls, there is actually a holiday to celebrate Nutella. Every year a day is set aside for us to rejoice in the splendor that is Nutella. Now while this seems rather odd, I mean a holiday to celebrate a spread, really?, I can’t imagine a food more deserving.

Hot Chocolate Cupcakes with Marshmallow Frosting filled with Chocolate Ganache

- Elle Kirschenbaum 8 Comments
Hot Chocolate #Cupcakes with #Marshmallow Frosting filled with #Chocolate Ganache. Incredible! Visit OnlyTasteMatters.com for the full #recipe. #dessert #baking #glutenfree

My first trip to Paris was 19 years ago. It was there that I first experienced what I now consider true hot chocolate. I was in a cafe on the left bank. I forget the name but it was famous for being the preferred haunt of the surrealists. I ordered opera cake and a chocolatRead more

5-Minute Fudge

- Elle Kirschenbaum 22 Comments
5-Minute Fudge

I’m not sure how this tradition came about but the exchange of sweets is as much a part of the holiday as Santa Claus. Every year we are inundated with recipe after recipe for holiday goodies. And every year we dread the amount of work that awaits us. Now I don’t know about you butRead more