Chrissy Teigen Shares Her Recipe for the Perfect ‘Lazy’ and Tasty Sheet Cake — With Lots of Sprinkles
19.02.2022 - 17:11
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Quick, easy and oh, so delicious! Chrissy Teigen has become the ultimate food guru after releasing three cookbooks — and she has the perfect “lazy” recipe for anyone running low on time.
“You throw batter in a sheet pan and boom: cake,” the Cravings: All Together author, 36, tells Us Weekly of her tasty vanilla sheet cake with salted milk chocolate frosting, which is also featured in her latest cookbook.
The Utah native, who shares 5-year-old daughter Luna and 3-year-old son Miles with husband John Legend, is a fan of making things simple in the kitchen.
Her pro tip for making her delicious frosting for this cake is to use milk chocolate and cream cheese, telling Us it helps avoid “bitterness” and adds a “tang” to the confection. The combination results in “chocolatey chilliness,” Teigen says. “It’s weird, but it speaks to me.”
The former Chrissy’s Court star has been working in the kitchen since she was young. In fact, her mom, Pepper Teigen, has been teaching the model some of her own cooking tricks along the way.
“We’ve been cooking together since [Chrissy] was little,” Pepper, 59, who has her own cookbook, Pepper Thai, exclusively told Us in October 2021. “She loved cooking. She made up her own recipes. … And I cook a lot with her sister, of course. That’s how we bond.”
The Getting Spicy With Pepper Teigen star exclusively told Us in September 2019 that she and Chrissy lean on each other in all areas of their lives.
“She needs me and I need her,” the Thailand native explained at the time. “We are always here for each other.”
Pepper noted that “always” means that she doesn’t say no to getting up early and serving whatever Chrissy has in mind for the day. “[Chrissy] will wake me up and say, ‘Mom, make me noodles!’ At, like, 2