A Little Bit of All Right

This month, I baked a Plum and Black Peppercorn Cake for my Cake Slice Bakers bake.  The cake itself was wonderfully moist.  The plums sunk into the cake, but that may have been because I caught the plums into eighths instead of fourths.  While it might have affected the look a bit, it did not negatively affect the taste. I do think the recipe called for a bit too much black pepper.  It calls for 3 t in the cake batter and then 1 t sprinkled on top.  I put 2 t in the batter and 1 t on top, and we all still found a bit overpowering.  I would definitely use this recipe as a foundation for other fruit-topped cakes.   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 have f