HCB: Ice Cream Cake

July 05, 2010 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Desserts, HCB, Ice Cream, Sweets

I’m seriously spoiling Tom. The last three weeks he has, thru my baking two of his 3 favorite sweets covered. Cheesecake - DONE! Ice Cream - DONE! Pie - still very scared of that one, but I’m sure I will cover it - eventually.

This weekend the Heavenly Cake Baker choice was the Ice Cream Cake, and I think like most of my baker group, we were all looking forward to it. It was perfect for the 4th of July and it would have worked great into a BBQ event. For us it was going to work great on a long weekend were we did not have any plans except stay at home (for me) and watch a lot of TV. It also did not help that it has not stopped raining here in Florida since last Thursday.

Banana-Blueberry Sorbet

June 25, 2010 by Monica in Cookbooks, Desserts, Fruit, Ice Cream, Sweets

It’s the summer and that means that we are NOT enjoying the 95+ degree temperatures we are experiencing over here in Florida.

It’s hot, muddy and sticky and we are melting (no joke).

Which means one thing - It’s the perfect weather to be frolicking in the pool all they day, drinking cool drinks, eating light foods and finishing it off with homemade fruit sorbet.

Once more I used a great cookbook – The Perfect Scoop from David Lebovitz to get me started. This is the first time I have ever made sorbet, and after finding out how easy it is to do, (took me like 10 minutes to whip up!) we now have numerous plastic containers all over the refrigerator with different types of fruit sorbets to enjoy.

HCB: Coconut Cheesecake with Coconut Cookie Crust

June 21, 2010 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, HCB, Sweets

We have already established in this food blog that Tom’s favorite dessert is anything with fruit, or a crust (such as pie) and of course cheesecake. Because, he would pretty much sell his soul for anything in the cheesecake category.

So you can very well imagine his delight when I presented him with this week’s Heavenly Cake Baker choice.

I did toy with him for a bit. I took out the coconut cream and the coconut flakes and set them on the kitchen island Friday night. As he walked by and saw the ingredients on display, the following conversation ensued: