ABC: Apricot-Almond-Berry Buckle

August 04, 2010 by Monica in ABC, Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, Fruit, Sweets

Remember a couple of weeks ago when I sang the praises of the yumylisious Lemon-Scented Pull-Apart Coffee cake?

The one that I have baked 4 6 times and made me embrace my inner conflicted relationship with yeast and rolling pins.

Well, I was so impress that I ran out and bough Flo Braker book "Baking for All Occasions. Because I knew that if she could pull that off with a coffee cake, what else can she pull off?

Afterwards, I got a shout out from a fellow HCB baker, Hannaa from Hanaa’s Kitchen who along with her friend Wafae launched a monthly baking project called the ABC of the Month, which stand for “Avid Baker’s Challenge of the month”. The concept is to choose a book and to bake from it and post the results on the first Tuesday of each month. Guess which book they choose to with in 2010?

uh, yeah...I joined them faster than you can type – “I’m in!”

HCB: Lemon Meringue Cake

August 02, 2010 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, HCB, Sweets

“With this cake I thee wed.”

Apparently all I needed to do for Tom to propose to me was to make this cake.

This week’s Heavenly Cake Baker choice was the Lemon Meringue Cake. Think lemon Meringue pie in form of a cake and you pretty much will have the idea of how this cake will end up tasting. My hat off to Rose for turning a popular pie to an AMA-Zing cake.

After a couple of weeks of chocolate overdrive, we were all waiting for this cake. But, nobody was waiting for this cake more than Tom was. Since he tasted the Baby Lemon Cheesecake, he is now on “red” alert every time something has the code world “lemon” in it. So, when he saw my baking calendar (yes I do have one posted) and read what choice cake we had this week, he started the lemon cake shakedown:

HCB: Designer Chocolate Baby Grands

July 26, 2010 by Monica in Baking Club, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, HCB, Sweets

And I’m back! This week’s HCB choice was baby cakes… CHOCOLATE baby cakes and covered with my favorite piano glaze – which I love to do and was introduce to the technique back with the Chocolate Apricot Roll and then again with the Bernachon Palets D’Or Gateau.

These cakes were pretty easy to put together and they are a marriage in chocolate heaven!