TWD: Mocha-Walnut Marbled Bundt Cake

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Since I’m batting 2 for 2 with my other baking club, I was looking forward to making this cake with the TWD group.  Because, I desperatly wanted my baking mojo back.  This week’s pick was compliments of Erin over at When in doubt…leave it at 350

Easy-peasy cake, with very straight forward ingredients – Walnuts, Chocolate and Coffee.  I was so confident on the easypeasy part that I started to bake this cake at 9pm, last night (yeah, folks l literally baked on a Tuesday with Dorie).

Now, I’m a huge fan of chocolate and coffee combos – HUGE!

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HCB: Sybil’s Pecan Torte with Coffee Cream

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I have no idea what is going on with me, but I guess I have not been very inspired with the last couple of cakes.  I’m putting all the blame on the combination of the never-ending search for a new house, the pending house packing ahead of us (which I have not even started) and the actual move out date (still to be confirmed) that has me all bend out of shape.  The combination of all of this is totally affecting my baking mojo.

I think also the fact that the last couple of cakes in the HCB list have been all about nuts.

The cakes, not the people. 

And I think I'm totally over nuts.

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HCB: Le Succes

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This is my 10th baking post with the Heavenly Cake Baker group and so far there has been spectacular cakes (Ingots) great cakes, good cakes and I knew that with over 400+ pages of recipe there was bound to be one that was going to be just “blah”.

I think I found it this week.

Because, well … Uh…Ok.. ok… I’m going to come clean:

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