HCB: Lemon Meringue Cake

August 02, 2010 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, HCB, Sweets

“With this cake I thee wed.”

Apparently all I needed to do for Tom to propose to me was to make this cake.

This week’s Heavenly Cake Baker choice was the Lemon Meringue Cake. Think lemon Meringue pie in form of a cake and you pretty much will have the idea of how this cake will end up tasting. My hat off to Rose for turning a popular pie to an AMA-Zing cake.

After a couple of weeks of chocolate overdrive, we were all waiting for this cake. But, nobody was waiting for this cake more than Tom was. Since he tasted the Baby Lemon Cheesecake, he is now on “red” alert every time something has the code world “lemon” in it. So, when he saw my baking calendar (yes I do have one posted) and read what choice cake we had this week, he started the lemon cake shakedown:

HCB: Designer Chocolate Baby Grands

July 26, 2010 by Monica in Baking Club, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, HCB, Sweets

And I’m back! This week’s HCB choice was baby cakes… CHOCOLATE baby cakes and covered with my favorite piano glaze – which I love to do and was introduce to the technique back with the Chocolate Apricot Roll and then again with the Bernachon Palets D’Or Gateau.

These cakes were pretty easy to put together and they are a marriage in chocolate heaven!

HCB: Mini Vanilla Pound Cake

July 13, 2010 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, Family Cookbook, HCB

This past weekend was insane around our house, last week I was away in Orlando for work-related training, so upon arriving on Friday the amount of stuff that accumulated in the To Do list was ridiculous – laundry, cleaning, folding, dishes and on and on. I mean, Tom does his share around here, but I guess what they say it true – when the cat is away…. Apparently everything goes to the dogs! So I was very happy about this week's HCB choice, since I knew it was going to be a snap to prepare, bake and have ready for those hungry boys I live with.

This is straight easy pound cake recipe, with three perfect twist: One, they are mini cake (can you say perfect give-aways? yes you can!). Two, they are made with vanilla bean and three, soaked in a cognac base syrup. (On a side note, I'm on to Rose and her boozy syrups because in my world I trust anything that is made with liquor - it makes everything better - trust).

How can you go wrong?

You can’t.