Crushed it! Nuts and a Delicious Cake

In today’s research we evaluate the following hypothesis: Sometimes you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet. But that doesn’t really make sense in the world of dessert science, so our final hypothesis is: Sometimes you’ve got to crush some nuts to get yourself a delicious cake. Any nut will do, but for the purpose of this experiment, we went for walnuts. Perhaps the craziest nut? We paired them with a classic: chocolate. Because what could go wrong with chocolate!? Nothing. Nothing went wrong with the chocolate. I am not being sarcastic, it was completely fine.

#TBT: Hey remember that one time?

It’s once again time for #ThrowBackThursday! You guys, we just love throwbacks. We love reminiscing, remembering, recalling, all that stuff! Like the recollection, the reviewing, the whole retrospect of it. And gosh, who doesn’t love a breezy little walk down Memory Lane! Perfect spot to rehash, hark back, muse over and look back on former glory.

Remember that one time when we decided to make a killer cheesecake even better?

  

Café Au Lait Cheesecake: Redux

Achieving greatness is a double edged sword. When you’ve created perfection, it’s all downhill from there… You become your own nemesis, always trying to surpass yourself. Can one ever be bested by oneself? Who even knows. All we know is that we’ve been waiting for ages for the perfect opportunity to make another Café Au Lait Cheesecake and the time has finally come! The only question remains: will it be worse, as good, or even better than the first one? Let’s find out!

Make People Like You… with Café au Lait Cheesecake

Innovation is at the core of science and discovery, and to reach new heights, we must all seek to do better. For the future of desserts, and the future of mankind! And also for deliciousness. We’ve given ourselves an Easter challenge: Oreo-crusted Café Au Lait Cheesecake. No idea why it’s an Easter challenge, other than it’s happening this week, but we’re trying to top one of our greatest achievements (the Oreo Cheesecake). Disclaimer: this cake will change your life.

Make People Like You…. with Calamity Cake

As scientists, our grasp on reality is fully and completely based on the laws of physics by ya boy Izzy Newton (holla!). But as dessert mavericks, we need to remember another law: Murphy’s! Sometimes, no matter how well you prepare and how hard you try, everything goes wrong. And boy, did it ever. Trigger warning: rogue kitchen appliances, head wounds. 

Desserts Around the World: Vienna Sachertorte

Like LITERALLY no other tourist in Vienna ever, we went to Hotel Sacher to eat Sachertorte.(Don’t remember them being more delicious than other chocolate cakes though.)

Desserts Around the World: Swedish Tigerkladdkaka

It turns out that you don’t necessarily need to travel the world to sample exotic desserts! You can stay where you are and turn to the internet for help and inspiration. Your trusted dessert scientist decided to take a delicious metaphorical trip to Sweden this week, to bring you Tigerkladdkaka. Kladdkaka is a special type of Swedish cake, that can only be described as a brownie hybrid. The main characteristics are that a kladdkaka is dense, sticky and gooey – you know, like a brownie. 

Make People Like You… with Marble Chocolate Cake

As scientists, we rarely take the time to meet new people. Listening to someone’s whole life story? Connecting on a personal level? Ain’t nobody got time for that! Luckily, our research has demonstrated that humans will gravitate to you….as long as you have cake.

To put this hypothesis to the test, your trusted, slightly misanthropic scientist extraordinaire decided to make marble chocolate cake and see if she could attract some unsuspecting individuals. Spoiler alert: it worked like a charm.

Desserts around the World – The Netherlands

I know, I live here, all my desserts were desserts from The Netherlands.

But look at this yummy chocolate cake with almonds!

It might not look very pretty, but neither does your face.