The Stuff of Valentine’s Dreams: Vanilla Bean Cake with Pomegranate Buttercream
Some days I’m wrapped up in daydreams of fluffy, buttery, happy, vanilla-scented cake. On some of those days, I’m also enthralled with thoughts of creamy swirls of tart, fruity, billowy pinkness. Today is one of those lucky days. A good vanilla cake is remarkably challenging to get right, though it sounds like such a simple thing. However, I’ve […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Toffee Coffee Cake Surprise
Sometimes in life, we’re asked to do things we don’t want to do; other times, the requests aren’t so bad. In the category of “HELL YES”: when Baked Occasions tells me to put toffee in a cake, I listen. Toffee Coffee Cake Surprise was one of the recipes that I was very curious about when I first got my eager paws on the […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Hair of the Dog Cake
Happy 2015! As usual, it’s hard to believe that another year has come and gone, and that the whirlwind of the holidays is behind us. This holiday season was chock-full of baking for Christmas, Chanukah, and plain ol’ winter joy; there were all manner of cakes, cookies, bars, and candy– for once, I baked pretty much […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Wintermint Cake
Gone are the days that I used to dread making layer cakes. When a layer cake would come up on the Baked Sunday Mornings schedule, I used to feel a mixture of elation, anxiety, and mortal fear; but thankfully the latter two have eroded as my experience with BAKED‘s cakes and frostings has yielded more successes than failures in recent […]
Under Cover of Darkness: Ovenly’s Brooklyn Blackout Cake
I had never heard of Ovenly until Amazon “recommended” their new cookbook back in September based on my previous purchases. One could certainly say that I have a love affair with certain Brooklyn baking establishments (see here, here, and here), so I was immediately intrigued. With a trip to New York looming (last month), I decided that […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Tunnel of Hazelnut Fudge Cake
In one week, I shall descend upon the eateries of New York City while in town to celebrate the release of Baked Occasions, the 4th cookbook from my favorite gentlemen bakers at BAKED in Brooklyn, as well as the opening of their second bakery location, in Tribeca. My excitement is mounting by the day, because in […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Vanilla Bean Malt Cake
Sometimes you just can’t get enough of a good thing. Right now, *I* can’t seem to get enough MALT. I’m thinking about it, dreaming about it, fiending for it; I might go to extreme measures if someone tried to take it away from me. That nutty, warm je ne sais quoi that malt lends to baked […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Poppy Seed Pound Cake with Brown Butter Glaze
I wasn’t quite sure what to think of this cake, to be honest. On one hand, my indifference towards Bundt cakes has been slowly, but surely, tipping towards enthusiasm; on the other, I am definitely not a fan of poppy seed filling. Everything else sounded great: orange zest in the cake and glaze, cream cheese in the […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Bananas Cake
Yeahhh… bananas are really not my thing. They creep me out with their mushy texture and their stinky banana stink and their brown spots and their slimy peels… I waxed poetic about my disdain towards bananas when Baked Sunday Mornings made Bananas Foster Fritters last year… but OHMYGODILOVEDTHEM. I slowly came to realize that although I […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Classic Carrot Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but… I really wanted to make a layer cake. There was a time not so long ago that I dreaded the Baked Sunday Mornings assignments for layer cakes. So much work, so much time, so much potential for things to go wrong… But I’ve come a long way since those […]
