A Little Bit of All Right

As part of my baking with The Cake Slice Bakers, I chose to bake the Lemon Buttermilk cake from America's Test Kitchen's book The Perfect Cake .  This cake is light lemon cake topped with icing and lemon sugar.  It was an easy, quick bake that would be good if you had to put a quick dessert together to take with you or for last minute guests as you don't have to wait for it to cool to add the icing.  The cake itself has a very light lemon taste, but once the icing and lemon sugar was added, it was just the right combination of sweet and tart. 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 ...

Summertime, summertime. Nothing says summer like fresh fruit. The Cake Slice Bakers continue to bake through The Perfect Cake , and this month, I chose to bake a Rhubarb Ribbon Cake. The recipe uses fresh rhubarb to add flavor to a basic yellow cake and to the buttercream frosting. It also uses strips of rhubarb to decorate the top. It is a beautiful cake. The only issue I had with the recipe was that my 2 lbs of rhubarb did not produce the 4 cups sliced rhubarb called for in the recipe, so the frosting was a little short. While the rhubarb taste in the frosting would have been that much stronger if I'd had the called for amount, it was still quite tasty. My family had mixed emotions about the cake. My daughter and one son were not fans, but my other son called it one of the best cakes he'd ever had. I loved it. I definitely need to spend more time baking with this summertime fruit. Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cake...

For this month's Cake Slice Bakers bake, I selected the Swiss Hazelnut Cake.  It has two layers with ground hazelnuts mixed into the batter and filled and frosted with a delicious frosting made in part with marshmallow cream and hazelnut liqueur. Bittersweet chocolate covers the outside.  The instructions say to use a food processor to shave the chocolate.  I don't own a food processor, so I chopped the chocolate. In general, I was pretty happy with this cake.  The cake was tasty and moist, and I really liked the texture with the ground hazelnuts.  The frosting was also good, though a little sweet, but it completely lacked hazelnut flavor.  Also, I think the cake would have been better overall if the chocolate had been sandwiched in between the layers to better cut the sweetness of the frosting. An InLinkz Link-up get the InLinkz code Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current boo...

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 kno...

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 a...

My bake for this month for the Cake Slice Bakers was a Wellesley Fudge Cake.  I've seen this recipe in a couple of cookbooks but have not tried it until now.  Don't know what I was waiting for!  It was a pretty easy recipe to follow, and the results were amazing!  It's a chocolatey layer cake with a fudgey frosting.  Perfect for the chocolate lovers in the group. The cake was extremely moist and kept well.  I had the last little piece four days later (how did my family miss it?), and it was as moist as when I first cut into it. An InLinkz Link-up get the InLinkz code Wellesley Fudge Cake Tahini-Banana Snack Cake Hazelnut-Chocolate Crepe Cake Gateau Breton 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 20...