Cooking
Still baking for superheroes: a vanilla sponge cake soaked in lemon simple syrup, filled with lemon curd & coated in ganache; birthday cake for the fictional teenage clone of a superhero.
- You Could Eat The Whole Box
A few weeks ago, a friend & I decided to make this cake. We were going to go fondant-coated hand to fondant-coated hand, see who made the better cake. This was probably a bad idea, on my part. She's a caker, and I often refer to her as 'The...
- Buttermilk Spice Cake With Amaretto-macerated Oranges
A few months ago, my mother-in-law gifted me with a pretty neat cake pan, called a Mary Ann Cake Pan. I kept thinking of ways to use it, but never got 'round to it. Finally, I decided I just had to come up with something...and since I was giving...
- Blowing The Dust Off...
Another 'oldie': from the August 1969 Gourmet, White Mountain Cake. This one came from one my favorite sections, the 'You Asked For It' column. The cake, apparently, came a bakery in Philadelphia, which had gone out of business. Interesting...
- Let Us Eat Cake
Terrine de Gateau For the third "Is My Blog Burning", Renee suggested the theme of cake. I envisioned something I was calling a "buche de printemps", a variant of the classic French dessert, the buche de Noel. I...
- Shf#8: Pucker Up With Citrus! Lemony Victoria Sponge Cake
You really couldn't have entered this months Sugar High Friday without one of the Microplane-wonders pictured here - well, maybe you could, but I for one wouldn't have wanted to! Microplaners make for the loveliest, fluffiest zest you've...
Cooking
365: Day 15
Still baking for superheroes: a vanilla sponge cake soaked in lemon simple syrup, filled with lemon curd & coated in ganache; birthday cake for the fictional teenage clone of a superhero.
- You Could Eat The Whole Box
A few weeks ago, a friend & I decided to make this cake. We were going to go fondant-coated hand to fondant-coated hand, see who made the better cake. This was probably a bad idea, on my part. She's a caker, and I often refer to her as 'The...
- Buttermilk Spice Cake With Amaretto-macerated Oranges
A few months ago, my mother-in-law gifted me with a pretty neat cake pan, called a Mary Ann Cake Pan. I kept thinking of ways to use it, but never got 'round to it. Finally, I decided I just had to come up with something...and since I was giving...
- Blowing The Dust Off...
Another 'oldie': from the August 1969 Gourmet, White Mountain Cake. This one came from one my favorite sections, the 'You Asked For It' column. The cake, apparently, came a bakery in Philadelphia, which had gone out of business. Interesting...
- Let Us Eat Cake
Terrine de Gateau For the third "Is My Blog Burning", Renee suggested the theme of cake. I envisioned something I was calling a "buche de printemps", a variant of the classic French dessert, the buche de Noel. I...
- Shf#8: Pucker Up With Citrus! Lemony Victoria Sponge Cake
You really couldn't have entered this months Sugar High Friday without one of the Microplane-wonders pictured here - well, maybe you could, but I for one wouldn't have wanted to! Microplaners make for the loveliest, fluffiest zest you've...