All Recipes and Posts by cocoaeric
Scones
Scones are thought to have come from Scotland, perhaps from Scone Scotland. Scones are a kind of quickbread, like Irish sodabread, where baking powder is the leavening agent, not yeast. They are delicate and flaky, and a welcome complement to tea or coffee. Cocoa bakes several varieties, including: Apple Cinnamon,...Read more
Coffee Cakes
Coffee cake, also called crumb cake, is a breakfast cake, typically eaten with coffee and actually doesn’t taste like coffee nor has coffee as an ingredient. Cocoa Bakery’s coffee cakes have a thick layer of streussel-like crumbs. Unlike other coffee cakes, Cocoa coffee cake has no drizzled glaze, nor have...Read more
Cream puffs
Cocoa’s light, fluffy, crisp, supple, delicate, soft cream puffs are due to Pastry Chef Jessica Isaacs perfected recipe for pate du choux pastry. ‘Choux’ in French means cabbage, as the puffs roughly resemble the leafy green. It is believed that Catherine Medici’s chef invented the pastry in the 1500s. Cocoa...Read more
Croquembouche
Croquembouche is a popular treat in France and Italy at weddings, baptisms and other special occasions. The dessert is a cone of cream puffs piled high and held together by spun caramel. The name roughly translates to “crunch in the mouth”, and is believed to have been invented by “the...Read more
Incredible Hulk Cake
This angriest of Avengers cake was a special birthday request for one of our loyal customers in Jersey City. The Incredible Hulk cake frosting and decoration is all buttercream. View our Superhero cakes Cake varieties Cupcake towers Back to Cakes page.Read more