A Little Bit of All Right

February's King Arthur Bake Along.

A surplus of bananas sent me looking at various banana pudding recipes.  I was looking for a recipe that had the cook creating pudding from eggs and sugar and not a box mixed with cool whip and sour cream. While I really do like that version of banana pudding, I was hoping to increase the types of puddings I can create from scratch.   There were a plethora of types of recipes for banana pudding.  I finally opted for what was billed in many places as "true Southern-style" banana pudding.  This was a warm pudding, layered with bananas and vanilla wafers and then topped off with meringue that was browned under the broiler. It was a beautiful dish of pudding, one that would be perfect for potlucks if I could perfect it.  This was definitely a little runny for our tastes.  Whether that was because of a mistake I made while making the pudding, an issue with the recipe I finally decided upon, or the mixture of warm pudding with bananas, I won't know without making mor

The Cake Slice Bakers continue to bake out of The Perfect Cake  #atkcake. This month I chose to bake a Tres Leche Cake.  This cake is a soft yellow cake soaked in a mixture of milks and cream and topped with a lovely whipped cream topping.   I was a little surprised by the amount of milk poured onto this cake - I didn't see how the cake could possibly hold it all.  But hold it, it did producing a wonderfully moist and flavorful cake. Each cake from this book becomes my family's new favorite. An InLinkz Link-up get the InLinkz code Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current book we are baking through.  This year it is The Perfect Cake from America's Test Kitchen #atkcake.  We each choose one cake to bake, and then on the 20th - never before - we all post about our cake on our blogs. There are a few rules that we follow, but the most important ones are to have fun and enjoy baking & eatin