ABC: Nut-Crusted Chocolate-Banana Swirl Cake

January 14, 2012 by Monica in ABC, Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Cookbooks

I have not posted anything with my baking group from ABC in so long; I’m surprised to see I’m still part of it!

Thank you Hanaa for keeping me in the fold and not kicking me out to the curve.

For 2012, the ABC bakers decided to bake from Abigail Johnson Dodge, The Weekend Baker and she was kind enough to pick our inaugural recipe.

She describes this as an “elegant brunch coffee cake” and after making it today, I could not agree more.

I planned to do this cake back in late December in order to have it ready to post in our early January schedule.

Then, life; sort of happened and this fell through the cracks.

ABC: Frangipane Ripple Chocolate Pound Cake

October 04, 2011 by Monica in ABC, Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Desserts, Sweets

This month’s Avid Baker’s choice was something I was looking forward to. I love heavy; dense cakes and pounds cakes are the type of cakes that fit this bill.

Plus is has been a while since a pound has been made around these parts.

Would you believe that I have never, ever made a chocolate pound cake?

Yep, true.

HCB: White Gold Passion Génoise

August 22, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cookbooks, Desserts, HCB

About a week ago, I sent my main chica, Jenn an e-mail letting her know that my participation in HCB was going to be very limited or even non-existent moving forward. Due to tremendous load of work at my job, everything in my life has sort of taken a backseat including my baking. I just did not have time to commit to the weekly baking schedule.

Then of course I read her Last Cake, Next Cake post and saw that the next cake was the White Gold Passion Génoise.

She had me at: Passion Fruit.