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Welcome to My Home I think a welcome to my home is long overdue! Especially to my kitchen. You’ve been joining me in my happy place for three and a half years and I don’t think I’ve really every shown you around

Though it’s been years since I’ve had that kind of lunch, it’s actually a very similar lunch to what I send my kids to school with. As I was thinking about this cake, I couldn’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve actually had a Hostess Ding Dong. You’ll notice in the cake instructions below that the oven temperature and bake time are different than what I would normally suggest for my chocolate cake when it’s in three pans. Whipped cream on it’s own, even with some powdered sugar in it, won’t be strong enough to hold the top cake layer and you’ll have cream oozing out your sides and into your ganache if you don’t add the gelatin.

Lemon Bar Cake – lemon cake layers baked on a shortbread crust, filled with lemon curd and topped with a lemon buttercream. She actually makes the most delicious lemon bars and I’ve been eager to get another lemon cake recipe on the blog for a while. I’ve filled the inside with a lemon curd and lemon buttercream. Lemon cake layers baked on a shortbread crust, with lemon curd filing and lemon buttercream.

A couple years ago, the kids and I made a Lucky Charms cake for St. Patrick’s Day