Since I can’t seem to get my computer to recognize my camera, I’m going to have to fly mostly blind (no/few pictures) this week. It’s been a hectic couple of weeks at our place, so I missed blogging last weekend’s cake, and forgot to take many pictures of this weekend’s cake.
Continue reading “Catching up with the Heavenly Cake Bakers”
Who could resist a cake with a name like that? Yes, it does have 7 pages of instructions, and is made up of a biscuit, apricot preserves, poached apples, a caramel, a custard, a meringue, whipped cream, and a glaze… but it sounds heavenly, right? Besides, like Katya, I “signed up for this because I like heavily involved, ridiculously detailed baking projects, right?”
This week is another free choice week for the heavenly cake bakers group. Last time we had ‘free choice’, I made the no bake whipped cream cheesecake. This week, I gave the list of cakes to my husband, and asked him to pick. I told him to pick something that didn’t have a date next to it, but had a link for the recipe title. It took him about 30 seconds. “Golden Lemon Almond Cake.”
or maybe we should call them gold squares, since that’s the shape of pan that I happened to have to bake these in. This week’s “heavenly cakes” selection is the gold ingots, also known as financiers classiques. I’ll admit to the same hesitation about this choice as many of the other bakers, since the peanut butter ingots weren’t my favourite, but they weren’t bad, so since this is on the quick and easy list, let’s bake!
Just a quick post to remind my fellow heavenly cake bakers about the list of the cakes in Rose’s Heavenly Cakes that I have put together. I just updated it with the recent cakes. If a cake has a line through the title, that means we’ve baked it since the group started last fall. If it has a link to one of Marie’s posts, but doesn’t have a line through and a date next to it, that means Marie baked it before the group started. The lines through the dates are just for me to keep track of my own progress on cakes I’ve made and cakes I haven’t. If no line through, no link, and no date, that means it’s not on the schedule and has not yet been baked by any of us, including Marie, so isn’t an ideal choice for free choice week.
I’m going to do a quick all-picture post, because a) I’m already late posting this, and b) I’m on vacation today and don’t really feel like spending a lot of time in front of the computer, which is why this is late to begin with. 🙂
Continue reading “Chocolate layer cake with Caramel Ganache”
Ok, so it’s supposed to be marionberry shortcake with the heavenly cake bakers this week, but my husband says “marionberry” is the mayor of Washington, and there was no mayor of Washington to be found in my grocery store’s freezer section, so I used fresh strawberries from Herrles, supplemented with a handful from my own patch of 5 everbearing plants. How can you beat that?
I’m back!
I think this week’s heavenly cake bakers choice was perfect timing. It’s definitely quick and easy, but it also involved heating a sugar syrup on the stove, so I got to use the new gas stove, as well as my new oven. We don’t have our cabinets yet, but everything else is in the kitchen. My good friend Matt and his girlfriend came over on Saturday afternoon and helped us move the new appliances in, as well as move the fridge and our old extra free-standing cabinet back into the kitchen from the dining room, so we can cook again!
This week’s heavenly cake post will be my last for a little while. I have no more oven. Or sink. And all of my baking supplies are in boxes. 😦
The fridge (and everything else needed for day-to-day survival) has been moved into the dining room. Unfortunately, baking supplies somehow don’t qualify. 😉
But I have a new oven! 🙂 It just happens to be sitting in the garage :(, waiting for the kitchen to be gutted and rebuilt from the floor to the ceiling. We’ve figured out what we want for cabinets, and have an appointment to order them tomorrow evening. We’ve already bought everything needed for re-wiring the room (who builds a kitchen with 3 outlets, including the one for the fridge?), and we have 2 new sinks and 2 new faucets waiting on standby. The ‘island’ you see in the middle of the pictures above is one that Jay threw together so we could decide whether the kitchen really had enough space for one.
I’ve been rather sporadic with my baking and posting and updating of my list of heavenly cakes lately, but I like to think I have a good excuse. I don’t, really, yet, other than “I’ve been busy”, but I’m sure everyone has the same problem. I did manage to bake the Génoise Rose last week, again a little too late to get it posted in time to be in sync with the rest of the heavenly cake bakers group.
Continue reading “Chocolate Ice Cream Cake (and a Genoise)”
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