Every bite of food should be a sweet bite
You would think that after doing cake for two days, I would have chosen to do the other option in our Gutsy Cook Club menu – the Lamb Kebabs right?
Unfortunately, having a bunch of kids running around the house zaps you of all type of energy that you need to have in order to get into a car and hunt down lamb. Also, when you have the refrigerator full of leftover party food, making some MORE food is not a good option.
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Wondering what that picture is above right?
It’s cake, so let’s get that OUT OF THE WAY.
It’s also a very special cake.
Let’s just call it a “preview” for the “final” reveal at the end of the post.
A background story first…
Tomorrow’s is the little man (not anymore) birthday, which meant that our house became birthday party central over the weekend. Mr. D (what we call him) decided he was old enough to have a grown up birthday, which involved four friends, lots of food, video games, movies, a bunch of sleeping bags and a full camp out in our living room and cake.
Take it from a ten year old again to know the simple things in life.
I have been waiting for this cake for a bit now. Somehow every time I would open Rose’s Heavenly Cakes book, it seem to fall on this page. And every time I would hope that Marie would put it in rotation.
This week the waiting was over. This week this was the cake on the spotlight.
At first glance, the cake does not look like much and I actually thought it was a plain pound cake with a crusty shell. Which to be honest, I’m a total sucker for. I have written before how heavy, pound cakes, are actually my favorite types of cakes. Maybe because they remind me of they types of cakes my “nonna” and I would bake when I was young, or the fact that that buttery flavor just screams comfort food at it’s best.
So this simple cake was screaming my name.
Boy, was I wrong. This cake actually is a variation of the original recipe that won the Pillsbury bake-off in 1950. Upon closer reading of the whole thing, I realized that the crusty outer of the cake is made up of a dacquoise made with pecan and chocolate which hugs the simple butter cake – thus the “cradle” in the name.
HELLO CAKE! You just jumped to captivating status in my world.