HCB: Golden Lemon Almond Cake

May 02, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Desserts, HCB, Sweets

See the pretty cake?

You can send many thanks to my main chica Jenn at Knitty Baker. Go on, visit her and leave a message and tell her how great she is because that beautiful picture up above, I owe it to her.

I’ll wait.

The backstory… every time we would have a HBC cake in the line up that resembled a dense cake that called to use a bunt pan; I would suddenly be hit with pan envy. Every week as I visited all of the HBC blogs, I would covet everyone’s fancy baking pans while whining like a 3-year old lamenting that I needed to get with the program and buy a fancy pan.

My plain old bunt cake pan was not cutting it anymore among all the fancy bakers.

Jenn was listening. I mean what are “chicas” for right?

Golden Carrot Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

May 01, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Decorating, Desserts, Family Cookbook, Sweets

I really don’t know if this will count towards my Heavenly Cake bake-a-long. Mainly because I adapted so much of this recipe at the end, I feel like I actually ended up doing something totally different than the original.

Talk about inspiration.

The background of this cake is simple. One of my best friends birthday was coming up. Her boyfriend, who is an avid cook like me, sent me an email and asked me if I be willing to bake her the birthday cake. At the same time this was happening I was already thinking of offering my baking services to the cause. I love when the universe works all of these tweaks and everyone ends up getting what they what.

After a bit of investigating efforts of the boyfriend, we narrow it down to her favorite cake being carrot cake.

Which was perfect for me, since I had not baked the carrot cake when it was in rotation, so again win-win.

Bahamian Rum Cake

April 25, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, Sweets

I’m cheating. I’m supposed to be posting my free choice from my Heavenly Cake Baker club.

This is not it.

Instead, I have wanted to make this cake for a while now. It has been marked in the cookbook for ages and been passed over and over again and again, because of my other baking commitments. But, this weekend I wanted a boozy cake. And if you only knew the type of shit stuff I have been dealing with the last couple of weeks, I REALLY NEEDED a boozy cake.

The more boozy the better.

This one was it.

It has rum in the syrup and rum in the glaze. To the tune of almost ¾ of a cup.

Boozy enough for you?

Because that is boozy enough for me.