I love bundt cakes because they remind me of my childhood. I still have the bundt pan that my mom used to make our boxed cake mix cakes in. I’ve mentioned on here several times that my mom isn’t a baker at all, but bless her heart because she would try her very best to make my sisters and I so very happy. She’d bake us those sugar cookies with the shape in the center, the kind that you’d slice and bake and they’d have a Christmas tree or pumpkin in the center for the different holidays. We loved them. There were several things in her repertoire that she’d make often, which included homemade flan (that my grandma made her all the time as a kid) and a yellow rum cake. We probably shouldn’t have had it as kids, but I’m sure that most of the alcohol baked off so it’s okay. Anyhow, she would bake the rum cake in this vintage bundt pan that I still have and use to this very day. I love it because it reminds me of all the times she would bake this cake for guests and friends.
The problem with bundt cakes, as much as I love them, is that they take forever and a day to bake and you always have that anxiety if the cake will come out cleanly from the pan or not. You cross your fingers and say a little prayer when you go to invert it. It’s a 50/50 chance that it’ll all go downhill. Just because I live with that constant struggle of baking a bundt cake doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them. I solved this by buying a mini bundt pan because they take no time at all to bake and they always come out perfectly. These Mini Malt Chocolate Chip Bundt Cakes are a great baking project to tackle this coming weekend. They’re fun to make and super tasty. They taste like chocolate chip cookies and chocolate malted milkshakes but in cake form, and I can’t recommend them enough.
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As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that making decisions can be very difficult. Like what should I make for dinner, what movie should we watch, and what to do on our day off? Trying to come up with a definitive answer takes too much time, and time isn’t always something we have enough of, am I right? So when it comes to deciding between vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry, I’m usually at a loss. How can you pick one over the other? That’s like a parent choosing their favorite child. It can’t be done (well it shouldn’t be done). This is why I’m a big fan of Neapolitan flavored anything because you can have all three flavors without sacrificing one over the other. We already make difficult decisions on a regular basis, having to choose between chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry shouldn’t be one of them. These Neapolitan Pudding Parfaits are reminiscent of that classic ice cream flavor but in pudding form. Homemade chocolate, vanilla and strawberry pudding are layered into small dishes and topped with whipped cream and finished off with chocolate shavings. It’s a dessert to end all desserts this summer, and if you’re thinking that these parfaits would be a great thing to make and eat this weekend, while you’re lounging around, then you thought right and I think it’s a wonderful idea. 
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In case you didn’t already know, today is Pi Day. This is the day when cooking enthusiasts and mathematicians come together to celebrate the fact that March 14th is 3.14 which is a mathematical constant, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to it’s diameter. I wish I could say I knew this by heart, but I’m really not that smart, at least not when it comes to math. I looked it up online. Just now. Anyhow today is the day when we all talk, dream, share, and eat nothing but pie all day long because we as a human race love puns and fun food holidays such as this one. Especially when said food holiday consists of all things pie. Last year I was very ambitious, and determine to share two recipes on Pi Da, so I posted this 
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This week’s goal is to make doughnuts. Deal? Let’s all make a commitment to each other to whip up a batch of our favorite doughnuts sometime this week. Whether you decide to fry the dough or bake them, it doesn’t really matter to me, just as long as doughnuts are involved in some way, shape or form. Lucky for us all, I have a fair amount of doughnut recipes on the blog to choose from (feel free to look through the 
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