A Little Bit of All Right

This month we were really wanting a chocolate cake, and the Cake Slice Bakers' book The New Way to Cake  delivered a great one.  It's an easy chocolate cake recipe that uses plain yogurt and Guinness Stout to enhance and deepen the chocolate flavor. The cake is topped with a glaze made from plain yogurt and powdered sugar.  I added some milk to try to thin it out, but finally just spread the topping like icing as I was worried if I added too much milk, I would loose the tanginess of the yougrt. The cake was very moist and full of flavor. Everyone in my family loved it both with and without the icing. 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 New Way To Cake  by Benjamina Ebuehi. 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 h

Back in January, the Cake Slice Bakers had this cake as one of their choices.  While I chose the blood red orange cake, I kept this one in the back of my mind as a recipe I definitely wanted to try.  This past Friday turned out to be the ideal day for baking this cake. The cake itself is a heavily spiced cake topped with frosting made from cream cheese, butter, and powdered sugar.  It was easy to put together and tasted amazing. I had leftover cake for breakfast the next day without a hint of guilt. Sweet potatoes and cream cheese - sounds like a health food to me!  It held up well overnight just covered with plastic wrap, with the last slice being just as moist as the first.