Vyrianna

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm still awaiting to hear about how the desert turned out last weekend. I had considered trying to make one this weekend for Father's Day but my brother (the newest father also) doesn't like chocolate. Last fall while I was out of town, I tried something new that I'd never heard of before, a cherry custard pie. It took some searching since the one I had didn't use cherry pie filling like a number of the recipes I located did, but I do believe I located one that resembles what I had. I guess this weekend will tell.

Not exactly sure if it was a choclate sponge cake or more lke a devil foods cake. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, unfortunately. Too me it seems like normal choclate cake. Not very informative am I? Sorry. Most of the cakes I remember are what I call "normal" cakes, typically from a box. Mom never baked cakes from scratch. (And by the age of 12 all my grandparents were deceased so I can't recall grandma making one.) I do remember finding Baker's One Bowl Chocolate Cake Recipe and I must say that is my favorite chocolate cake recipe, well except for when I want a German Chocolate Cake. (Baker's also as a really good recipe for that too.) I suppose that I could just make up some of that cake, and try some of the custard filling recipes and use that with icing on top.

I was looking around the web for Boston Cream Pie recipes and such. and came across this forum and this line of posts. I just wanted to say, the first time I ever had Boston Cream Pie was when I was living in Omaha. They had this lovely chain of restaurant bakeries called the Garden Cafe. One thing though, like the restaurant mentioned by someone in Austin, their Boston Cream Pie was made with chocolate cake. So to me the ones that are white just aren't Boston Creme Pie. And that is also why when I go looking for recipes I'm looking for one that uses chocolate cake.