Bahamian Rum Cake

April 25, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, Sweets

I’m cheating. I’m supposed to be posting my free choice from my Heavenly Cake Baker club.

This is not it.

Instead, I have wanted to make this cake for a while now. It has been marked in the cookbook for ages and been passed over and over again and again, because of my other baking commitments. But, this weekend I wanted a boozy cake. And if you only knew the type of shit stuff I have been dealing with the last couple of weeks, I REALLY NEEDED a boozy cake.

The more boozy the better.

This one was it.

It has rum in the syrup and rum in the glaze. To the tune of almost ¾ of a cup.

Boozy enough for you?

Because that is boozy enough for me.

HCB: Southern (Manhattan) Coconut Cake with Silk Meringue Buttercream

April 19, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cookbooks, Desserts, HCB

I’m going to make this post short and sweet, because guys I’m exhausted.

I mean like really, really worn-out.

My new job, which I love, is really taking a lot out of me, not only mentally but physically as well. I come home every day of the week and all I want to do is jump in the bed and put the world on hold until the next day when I have to do it all over again.

And I know that I been absent the last couple of rotations from the group, but this weekend this cake was not going to be passed by.

First coconut cake – HELLO is the Holy Grail at my house. Besides my Tres Leches, this is the second “signature cake” that my family is always asking for. I was intrigue in Rose’s take on it, so it was going to be made period. I started late on Saturday night after a full day of running errands all over town. The game plan was to make the cake and then on Sunday finish off with the crème anglaise and the buttercream.

As some of you

HCB: Karmel Cake

April 04, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Desserts, HCB

As I write this, I’m having the last piece of this cake.

Yep, we finish this off already. It’s that good.

I got to be honest, when I saw this recipe in the book; I was not “wowed” by it at all. It just seem like any other plain cake – no big deal.

I should have knows that Rose does not do “no big deal” - every single cake is a big deal and this one is one of those. Hidden in its simplicity your end results is a stand out cake, it does not even need frosting or cream or anything - Rose does recomend to serve it with some coffee cream, I recomend to eat it plain because sometimes plain is good for the soul - this is one of those times.