Mother’s Day Tea Cakes ~ Pretty tea cakes to impress the moms in your life.
Mother's Day Tea Cakes
Let me start by saying, I have the skills of a dancing elephant when it comes to piping. So what is baker like me suppose to do? Uh, cheat and use forms to create the rose and use a brush to paint some flowers. Athough, I don’t think I quite have the right consistency for buttercream painting yet. More testing on the painted buttercream-when I get it right, I will let you know.
Sorry for the short post. Work is wreaking havoc on me this week. My job has been restructured luckily for the better, but I’m still adjusting.
» Read the rest of this entry «Perfect Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis ~ A perfect pound cake made untraditionally with cream cheese. Yes, really, cream cheese and it’s so good! Add the strawberry coulis and you will be rhythmically tapping the plate as you scoop your next fork full.
Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis
Seldom do I get a request from my family for any dessert. That being said, a request was placed for some pound cake and prefaced with, “Nothing fancy, just plain buttery pound cake”. Keeping things plain should be simple enough, right? But somehow that’s like asking a sprinter to walk—I just couldn’t help myself.
Strawberry season has begun and fresh from the Farmer’s Market was a basket of beautiful strawberries intended for some Strawberry Shortcake testing. But the request was opportune, as I remembered just recently seeing abunsinmyoven’s recipe for Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis that I wanted to try.
Intrigued by the cream cheese portion of the pound cake, I decided to tie everything together: Pound cake for the request while testing a new recipe and a touch of dress-up with the coulis.
The only thing I added to the recipe was the lemon cream cheese glaze. I added the glaze because I like the balance lemon gives to the buttery taste of pound cake- just a personal preference. Of course, you can bypass the glaze, the pound cake taste great without it.
A few notes:
1. Go to http://bit.ly/cdrixG for the recipe.
2. This can be made four days in advance (without the finishing glaze) and keep it wrapped tightly with plastic. » Read the rest of this entry «
Chocolate and Vanilla Grand Marnier Torte ~ Delicate layers of chocolate and vanilla bean sponge cakes soaked in a simple syrup of Grand Marnier and finished with an elegant draping of Valrhona chocolate.
Chocolate and Vanilla Grand Marnier Torte
You can make this recipe as one large layer cake, but I prefer making mini cakes. I know cupcakes are all the rage and I’m part of it. I love them and love making them, but my signature before the cupcake takeover was for mini cakes.
Sticking with what I do best, this is one of the first mini cakes I made and still one of my favorite mini cakes. It’s simple to assemble, subtle in sweetness and always a show stopper. » Read the rest of this entry «
