Thread: Party Cakes for Mother's Day

Need to bake a cake for Mother's Day? Try these 2 mouth watering recipes at delish.com:

Peanut Butter Swirl Cheesecake

Ingredients

Crust:

1 1/2 cup(s) chocolate wafer cookie crumbs
4 tablespoon(s) butter, melted

Filling:

4 package(s) (8-ounce) cream cheese, softened
1 cup(s) creamy peanut butter
1 cup(s) sugar
4 large eggs, at room temperature
1/2 cup(s) sour cream
2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
3 ounce(s) bittersweet chocolate, melted
6 regular-size peanut butter cups, quartered

Directions

To make the crust: Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 9-inch springform pan with cooking spray; tightly cover outside of pan with a double thickness of foil. Combine cookie crumbs and butter in a bowl until crumbs are evenly moistened. Press into bottom and 1/2 inch up the sides of prepared pan. Bake 10 minutes; let cool on a wire rack.

To make the filling: In a large bowl, beat cream cheese with an electric mixer on medium-high speed, until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in sugar until smooth. Reduce speed to medium and beat in eggs, 1 at a time, until just blended. Beat in sour cream and vanilla. Remove 1 1/2 cups of the batter to a medium bowl; stir in chocolate. Add peanut butter to cream cheese mixture in large bowl and beat until smooth. Remove 1 3/4 cups of the peanut butter batter to a medium bowl and reserve.

Spoon the remaining peanut butter batter over crust in pan. Top evenly with peanut butter cups, gently pressing pieces into batter. Alternately drop reserved chocolate batter and reserved peanut butter batter on top of peanut butter cups to cover; swirl batters together with a skewer or a knife to marbleize.

Place cheesecake in a larger baking pan and place on oven rack. Carefully pour enough hot water into larger pan to reach 1 inch up sides of springform pan. Bake 1 hour, or until cake barely jiggles in the center.

Remove cheesecake from water bath; remove foil. Using a thin knife, carefully cut around top edge of cake where it meets the pan to release. Let cool completely on wire rack. Cover and refrigerate until cold, 6 hours or overnight.

To serve, run a sharp knife around edge of pan to loosen and remove side of pan.

Serves: 11

Chocolate Cream Cakes

Ingredients

Cakes

1 1/2 cup(s) all-purpose flour
Baking spray
1 cup(s) sugar
1/3 cup(s) unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon(s) baking soda
1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
3/4 cup(s) sour cream
1/3 cup(s) canola oil
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoon(s) cider vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract

Filling

1/2 teaspoon(s) unflavored gelatin
1 1/2 tablespoon(s) cold water
2 ounce(s) white chocolate, finely chopped
3/4 cup(s) heavy cream

Glaze

6 ounce(s) bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup(s) heavy cream
2 tablespoon(s) light corn syrup
2 ounce(s) white chocolate, for decoration, finely chopped

Directions

Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat 4 (4- to 4 1/2-inch) nonstick individual springform pans with baking spray. In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. In a second bowl, whisk sour cream, oil, egg, vinegar, and vanilla; stir in flour mixture. Spread in prepared pans. Bake 28 minutes. Let cool in pans on wire rack 5 minutes. Invert cakes onto wire rack; remove sides and bottoms of pans. Cool completely.

Sprinkle gelatin over water in a small saucepan; let stand 1 minute to soften. Gently heat over low heat, stirring, until gelatin dissolves and is clear. Add white chocolate; stir until melted and mixture is smooth. Stir mixture into heavy cream in a medium bowl; chill 15 minutes. Beat with a handheld mixer on high until stiff peaks form. Transfer filling to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip.

With a knife, slice cakes open from sides, as if to cut into 2 even layers but stopping three quarters of the way. Pipe some filling into the middle of each cake. Press cakes together; place on a wire rack set over a jelly-roll pan.

Put bittersweet chocolate in a small bowl. Bring cream and corn syrup to a boil in a 2-cup glass measure in the microwave. Pour over chocolate. Let stand 2 minutes; whisk until smooth. Spoon the glaze over cakes, letting excess run off into the jelly-roll pan. Refrigerate to set glaze.

Decoration: Put white chocolate into a 1-quart resealable food-storage bag; seal bag. Place bag in a bowl of very hot tap water. Let stand 5 minutes until melted. Snip off one corner of the bag; drizzle melted chocolate over top of cakes. Refrigerate to set.

Serves: 8

I can already tell that one serving contains like 400 + calories. LOL

Oh well, it's a celebration. You'll just have to workout twice as much to burn them off