Extraordinary Cakes: Ivoire Royale

June 04, 2013 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Desserts, EXTC, Fruit

This is the second cake from our bake-a-along of the Extraordinary Cake Book from Karen Krasne.

It took me the whole month to get this going. I did not realized how busy I been until I saw how I keep pushing this cake later and later, until I realized that memorial weekend was going to turn into a baking marathon in order to have it ready to post and discuss, along with the other bakers participating.

First off, the cake is easy, I think it may be one of the easier ones in the whole book, with 4 steps to make the components needed, they are all very simple and quick to make. The drawback is the waiting, and for this one you had to wait.

HCB: Apple Caramel Charlotte

September 20, 2010 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, Fruit, HCB, Sweets

Disclaimer: this post is long and there is a bit of a rant. Just as long as making this cake was and reading about it.

A few months ago, I was emailing with Jenn from Knitty Baker and we were discussing those cakes that were still left to do in our HCB list and this one in particular came about in conversation. We both were totally dreading it.

With 7 pages of instructions and 7 different steps, we knew it was going to take A LOT of resilience and baking savvy to do this one. Jenn was hoping that Marie would give us this one on a long weekend so we would have more time to plan for it. I was hoping that Marie would have a total Opps-y moment and would forget about this one.

We totally jinx ourselves. Because not even a week after this whole discussion took place - there is was in the baking list, and NOT on a long weekend.

This cake, even from the start was a total Prima Donna, and not in a good way. Did you know that the word “diva” means evil in some parts of the world?

TWD: Burned Sugar Ice Cream

May 06, 2010 by Monica in Baking Club, Desserts, Ice Cream, Sweets, TWD

Funny, how this week’s choices in both of my baking clubs force me to do things that I have never thought I would do in baking.

In one I spun sugar, to form a beautiful ball of caramel ball to top a stunning trifle and with this recipe I got to finally used my ice cream maker.

The one that has been with me for over 15 years.

And I have NEVER, EVER use.

Never!