HCB: Barcelona Brownie Bars

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Marie, our fearless founder of the Heavenly Cake Bakers has completed her goal of finishing every cake (minus the wedding cakes) in Rose Levy Beranbaum - Rose’s Heavenly Cake Book.  In 2 years she baked a total of 90 cakes and through it all manage and inspired over 40 bakers around the world baking along with her every week.  I’m not going to lie and tell you that she will be greatly missed. I have gotten so used to every week looking forward to her Last Cake, Next Cake post where she recapped every single bakers trials and hurrah moments – it was the highlight of my mid week.

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The story of the Leeks, Rice, Peas and ham jumble and an Egg to boost

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See that picture above, that is what you get when your body craves something and you raid your refrigerator and get a “healthy” talk from your boyfiend.

This past weekend I was all set to bake the last cake for my Heavenly Cake Baker club.  Instead I ended up in bed for 4 days, going mano-a-mano with a nasty cold.

Today, I decided to stay home instead of spreading the joy around work, because karma will eventually beat me up and those germs will travel around the place and end up back in my system.

So I played nice.

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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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