HCB: Golden Lemon Almond Cake

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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?

 

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HCB: Southern (Manhattan) Coconut Cake with Silk Meringue Buttercream

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I’m going to make this post short and sweet, because guys I’m exhausted.

I mean like really, really worn-out.

My new job, which I love, is really taking a lot out of me, not only mentally but physically as well.  I come home every day of the week and all I want to do is jump in the bed and put the world on hold until the next day when I have to do it all over again.

And I know that I been absent the last couple of rotations from the group, but this weekend this cake was not going to be passed by.

First coconut cake – HELLO is the Holy Grail at my house.  Besides my Tres Leches, this is the second “signature cake” that my family is always asking for.  I was intrigue in Rose’s take on it, so it was going to be made period. I started late on Saturday night after a full day of running errands all over town.  The game plan was to make the cake and then on Sunday finish off with the crème anglaise and the buttercream.

As some of you

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HCB: Karmel Cake

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As I write this, I’m having the last piece of this cake.

Yep, we finish this off already.  It’s that good.

I got to be honest, when I saw this recipe in the book; I was not “wowed” by it at all.  It just seem like any other plain cake – no big deal.

I should have knows that Rose does not do “no big deal” - every single cake is a big deal and this one is one of those.  Hidden in its simplicity your end results is a stand out cake, it does not even need frosting or cream or anything - Rose does recomend to serve it with some coffee cream, I recomend to eat it plain because sometimes plain is good for the soul - this is one of those times.

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