Baumkuchen or Schichttorte

October 22, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Cake, Desserts

I read a lot of my fellow food blogs. I really don’t have any particular preference when it comes to putting them on my reader. But I do tend to gravitate towards those food blogs that have beautiful photography and out of the box creativity when it comes to making recipes.

So, it’s no surprise that when I ran into Sandra Mangas web page – “La receta de la Felicidad” I was immediately in love with her photography and the creativity of her recipes blew me away. She is fun, and wimsy and her recipes are delicious too.

Go visit her right now and see what I mean.

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.

Madeira Cake

September 12, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Cake, Desserts, Family, Family Cookbook

Do you have those moments where a craving strikes you out of the blue. And you need to have it now or the end of the world will happen.

Ok, well, *cough, cough* NOT the END of the world. But, it does come close.

It happened to me on Saturday. I was sitting pretty, reading this book (which by the way, if you have not read it yet – you best get cracking, because its AWESOME) when suddenly I wanted needed something sweet.

But, I did not want ice cream, or a piece of Baci, or a spoonful of nutella.

My usual go-to “kill the craving” options.

At first I thought I was sick.

But then I closed my eyes to visualize what I really wanted and an image appeared out of nowhere.

I wanted cake.