Every bite of food should be a sweet bite
I been so absent with the Avid Baker’s Challenge post, its a wonder that I have not be kicked out by our gracious host Hanaa.
But this weekend was long, it was raining outside, I had caught up with all of DVR viewing and I wanted a yeast cake and ABC choice was a Butterscotch Spiral Coffee Cake.
Butterscotch people!
As in gooey, caramel-y, sticky and sweet. Pair it with a yeast cake filled with layers of butter and cinnamon, and the cake had me at “hello”.
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.
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?