Sometimes I cannot quite believe that I’ve been doing this for seventeen years, but what is even more amazing to me, is that I still feel a wonderful thrill every time I hit “publish” on a new post. And yes, I realize I’ve said that before, after all, it’s been seventeen years of cooking and sharing joy. To celebrate the occasion, I baked a cake, but to be completely honest, there were a few issues, so I am not sharing the recipe. It comes from a pretty well-known cookbook. Enough said. Chocolate layer cake, with fudge buttercream and ganache drip. The issue was the buttercream, but I did my best to work around the problem.
Four layers of chocolate cake, filling of fudge buttercream with bits of shortbread cookies, and a drizzle of caramel sauce. After frosting the cake, a dark chocolate ganache was poured on the flat top, allowing it to drip down the sides. A little extra buttercream to make rosettes on top, chocolate sprinkles and gold for good luck.
The cake was donated whole, so I cannot show the inside, but I heard it was very rich and delicious. As to the journey of blogging, mine will definitely keep going. Phil and I are officially retired for almost a full month, and want to expand a bit my horizon on cooking in general, attempting recipes that are a bit more exotic, maybe. Let’s see how it goes. If you’ve been here from the very beginning, thank you for hanging around for so long. If you are new to my little virtual spot, I hope you’ll find plenty of things to read about and maybe make in your own kitchen. Make it bewitching. And let’s step into the 18th year of food blogging, shall we?
1 YEAR AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns 16!
2 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns 15 years old!
3 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns 14!
4 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns 13!
5 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen Turns 12!
6 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns 11!
7 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen Turns 10, and a Giveaway…
8 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns 9!
9 YEAR AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns eight!
10 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen Turns Seven!
11 YEARS AGO: Bewitching Kitchen Turns Six!
12 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns Five!
13 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns Four!
14 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen Turns Three!
15 YEARS AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns Two!
16 YEARS AGO: Bewitching Birthday!
17 YEARS AGO: Welcome to my blog!
Bewitching Kitchen 
Happy 17th Birthday!
⭐️🎉🎈🎂 🎈🎉⭐️
You have made life in my kitchen better with each post. It is rare to run across someone who shares so generously and freely with her readers and her community. It is a blessing to have had 17 years of Bewitching Kitchen. Here’s to another year together in the kitchen!
Sincerely, I thank you so much.
cheers,
Annie
PS: Look forward to learning about the new, more exotic food you explore. You may already know about this FB group but Cookbooks of Interest is great for inspiration along those lines.
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What a wonderful comment, thanks so so much! I will investigate that group right away!
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Congratulation, felicitations . . . and a lot of smiles for you going on! Love travelling the so-called Pond to see and read and learn and enjoy and pass your talent and wisdom on . . . if you retired, part of me would be lost > so, don’t you dare 🙂 ! Actually love the look of the cake . . . would ask for a big piece if I could find my drat genie to whisk me over! Hmph! Sending a huge hug over instead until . . . and stroke the boys for me, I mean the four-legged ones 🙂 !!!
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I went through a phase of “almost quitting” the blog but it did not last long, I feel very excited to keep it going, so yeah, “I ain’t going anywhere” and I absolutely LOVE that you are here….
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Congratulations on 17 years!! Claire would approve of the glitter.
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Claire is a girl of fine taste!!!! Thank you, Tara!
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Congratulations! I still remember back when posting at the swap you weren’t a fan of baking. My how things have changed!
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worse than not being a fan… I was a TRUE BAKE-O-PHOBE!
not sure what happened…..
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massive congratulations on 17 years; what a a wonderful milestone. And what a fabulous cake: the issues you had with it are certainly not noticeable. Here’s to many more years
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