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Sometimes things don't turn out the way they are supposed to. (Like publishing this post back in mid-December when it was written.) For example, when I set the intention of running a full practice I didn't think it would mean I would be dropping hours at the clinic I currently co-own and picking up hours at somebody's clinic across town. But that is what is happening, and to tell the truth I am

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This is Rose's Heavenly Cakes' version of a Buche de Noel; instead of turning a chocolate roulade into a log with some meringue mushrooms, this roulade is turned into a large pineconey thing with some spikes. Mine turned out less like a pinecone and more like male genitalia underneath a brown spiky blanket, but for the sake of this post I'm going to continue to pretend it was a pinecone. I

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For the grand finale of the second round of the RHC bake-through, Jenn gave us the option of baking any of the wedding cakes in the book. At first I think many of us were wondering how to gather 100-150 people to eat a three-tier wedding cake, but later Jenn specified we could bake any one of the three layers. I think this will be the first and last time I will lazily point to my previous

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I was really looking forward to Rose's Tiramisu as it is one of my favorite desserts. All that creamy deliciousness! Sadly, my creamy deliciousness never thickened up and remains a very rich and yummy runny mess. November 16, 2011 Name of Cake: A Yummy Runny Mess Occasion: HCB Constituents: espresso-soaked savioardi biscuits sort of layered with a improper zabaglione/mascarpone mixture and

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This cake is the one on the cover of the book; a single layer, richly chocolaty cake enrobed in the shiny lacquer glaze and fancied up with currants and edible gold leaf. The recipe for the Bernachon Palet d'Or takes up several pages and looks daunting, but I assure you there are only three components and all of them are easy. If you love chocolate then you need to make this cake. November 21,

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The Baby Lemon Cheesecakes are everything you'd expect a Rose cheesecake to be: creamy, soft, lemony, and absolutely delicious. Rose's cheesecakes have unanimously won over cheesecake-haters, which really is all that needs to be said. November 9, 2011 Name of Cake: A Cheesecake Everyone Will Love Occasion:HCB Constituents: a cheesecake, atop a sponge cake layer and topped with lemon curd I am

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A lovely and light cake with the warm flavor of toasted almonds and paired with a simple raspberry jam whipped cream. Although this dessert would seem more appropriate in the spring, the toasty nuts make this just as good for a crisp fall day. And as I have said elsewhere, pink frosting makes everything cheery. although i just said pink frosting is cheery, i presented you with a photo of

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Last weekend, I made a jaunt up to the Seattle area to visit some friends. My first stop was to see a high school buddy and his hilarious wife. I was also visiting the lovely Raiuchka, and was hoping to share cake with everybody. Alas for poor Raiuchka and her family, the cake I brought up didn't make it past Port Orchard. I wanted a simple, easy cake that could live without refrigeration and

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The HCB baked the peanut butter ingots this week, which I baked the first time around. I didn't love them, but I didn't hate them, either. I was compelled to then bake a batch of peanut butter cupcakes and frost them with the lacquer glaze, which tells me they were just not peanut buttery enough. In HCB solidarity, I decided this would be the week I tackled the Chocolate Ingots. October 25,

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In an attempt to catch up with the rest of the group I thought I'd squeeze in another cake between the Pumpkin Cake and next week's upcoming cake. I had chocolate on the brain, so chose the Moist Chocolate Raspberry Genoise. This cake is moist and light and rich, all at the same time. Oh, and deeply chocolaty. October 17, 2011 Name of Cake: A Chocolaty Contrast in Textures Occasion: HCB catch

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Hello everyone. I disappeared for a little bit, didn't I? I was out of town, I've had house guests. The usual reasons why I stop posting for a bit. However I am back, I am four cakes behind in the bake-through, and fall is here. Time for Pumpkin cake. October 11, 2011 Name of Cake: A Fall Cake Occasion: House guests, and HCB Constituents: a pumpkin bundt, frosted with burnt orange silk

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Jeremy, aka Cabbage Jello, is having himself another birthday. He is kind of ho-hum about his birthdays, but secretly I think he likes to do something to celebrate the day. At least he likes a peanut butter-chocolate cake on his birthday. I usually bake up a couple of chocolate cakes and frost them with a peanut butter-cream cheese frosting, but this year I wanted to shake things up. Peanut

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My two friends Coleen and Mary have been together for just about ten years. They are a fun couple of ladies who love to camp, garden, and feed people. Mary loves to vacation in exotic locales for months at a time. Coleen dreams of studying the Amazon rain forest. Their door is always open, and they are always interested in meeting new people and living life to the fullest. These are wonderful

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I'm still not clear why this cake is called She Loves Me, but I do know that I Love This Cake, so maybe that's what I'll call it around these parts. The cake is essentially The Cake Bible's All-Occasion Downy Yellow Butter Cake, which no kidding, is my favorite cake, especially when paired with raspberry ganache. So guess what I did with this cake. September 12, 2011 Name of Cake: I Love This

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This week's Heavenly Cakes assignment is the simple and richly chocolatey Deep Chocolate Rosebuds Cupcakes. The original recipe uses a Nordicware Rosebud pan, which makes cute little rose-shaped cakes and hence the true name of this recipe. As you know by now I hate buying specialty pans so I used my silicone cupcake cups. A Deep Chocolate Rosebud by any other name would taste as decadent.

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Is there any fruit more succulent and summery than the peach? Each juicy, fragrant peach is like a little bit of summer in your sticky hand. The smell of a ripe peach is a sweet combination of hot days and green leaves rustling in the breeze, with all the bursting hope and bustling joy a beautiful late summer day can promise. The first recipe in Rose's Heavenly Cakes is an Apple Upside Down

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Last weekend, I took a little day trip up to Port Orchard, Washington to see a couple of friends, and pick up Joelf and drag him back to Portland for a little bit. The drive takes about three hours one way so I picked up a two-pound package of blueberries for snacking. Sadly, the berries were picked too early and had little taste. I was pretty disappointed, since it is the tail-end of blueberry

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A lovely genoise cake with fresh strawberries and raspberries, the Red Fruit Shortcake is a splendid way to celebrate berry season. The HCB baked this cake in May, but as raspberries weren't fresh yet I decided to hold off. Today at the grocery store and the farmer's market I discovered berry season was in full swing--strawberries, raspberries both red and white, blueberries, marionberries! The

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I almost skipped this one, as I have made the cake component many times before (like two weeks ago for the wedding) and I made The Goop back when the bake along was just Marie, baking along. So technically I could call this recipe made, but because I am a rule follower and a joiner, I went ahead and squeezed this cake in before I left for a long weekend. (And I regret to say, no photos. I

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I hope upon seeing the title of this post you weren't expecting a large and glorious trifle, with layers upon layers of feather-light chocolate gemoise, thick creamy creme anglaise, and bright red raspberries. 'Cause mine is a little more rustic than the photo in the book. August 7, 2011 Name of Cake: Late July Trifle Occasion: HCB, and raspberry season Constituents: moist chocolate genoise,

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You guys, I actually like these! A lot! I have had a crazy day, and finding these plum round ingots delicious just fits the theme. This is a murky phone photo, so pretend they look prettier. August 1, 2011 Name of Cakes: almond plum teacakes Occasion: HCB Constituents: ingots (almond brown butter teacakes), baked in little rounds with plums and/or blueberries These are super easy to make.

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After spending months planning, weeks testing, two days baking, syruping, filling and frosting, and about two hour's worth of freaking out, Sam and Andrea's wedding cake was finished. In a garden on a beautiful warm Portland afternoon, about 75 friends and family gathered to celebrate the lovely couple, and eventually eat cake. July 30, 2011 Name of Cake: Sam and Andrea's Wedding Cake Occasion:

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The No-Bake Whipped Cream Cheesecake runs circles around it's boxed counterparts, and is a delightful warm weather treat. Light and airy, yet tangy, creamy and rich like a cheesecake should be, I have discovered this cake is as good for breakfast as it is post dinner or in the middle of the night. July 22, 2011 Name of Cake: Hot Weather Cheesecake Occasion: HCB Constituents: graham cracker

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So the wedding is coming up in a couple of weeks, and I was still in search of a good dairy free frosting. Their cake will be a three tier cake, and the couple requested the middle tier be dairy-free for their relatives who are apparently really allergic to all things dairy. The couple had vetoed the standard shortening-powdered sugar frosting as too sweet. I said I would go back to the drawing

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This week, the HCB are off baking the Chocolate Tomato Cake, which I baked with group the first time around in August 2010. Since the tomato cake is a cake most of us faced with trepidation, I decided to also bake a cake that I had serious reservations about: the Torta de las Tres Leches. This is a cake that is soaked in a whole lot of milk, which to me sounds like a horrible idea. I don't

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Looking over my list of RHC left to bake, I noticed that the majority of them are from the sponge cake chapter. Do I have a problem with sponge cakes? I always think of them as more difficult to make, usually because the large number of eggs required for most sponge cakes require separating. I don't know why that seems difficult when in reality separating eggs is pretty quick and easy. So for

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I SWEAR I made this cake, and it was devoured yesterday after a delicious BBQ at my friend's house. It was a perfect ending to a warm summer evening. My internet at my house has been spotty all weekend and here I am at a cafe with WiFi and I forgot my camera to upload my photos. ARGH! So the post in its entirety is on the way...but maybe not until tomorrow. OK! Here is the post: Rose's

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So this week's Heavenly Cakes Bake-through was the Red Fruit Shortcake. I decided to go rogue and not make it this week, despite not having made it yet. After mentioning in my comment on Jenn's LCNC that raspberries aren't around these parts yet so my red Fruit Shortcake would be basically a strawberry shortcake I got a little bummed out. Not that there's anything wrong with a strawberry

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Hello lovely bakers. It's been awhile, hasn't it? I've been busy, out of town, and lastly, sick. I am really whiny about the sick part because usually I can kick a cold in a couple of days and this sucker has been hanging on for almost TWO WEEKS. I also think the tail-end of the sick has co-mingled with seasonal allergies, but STILL. Eating sugar irritates my already irritated throat, so I

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This recipe is in Rose's Heavenly Cakes, so I am including it in the bake-through, although it doesn't count as one of the cakes I have left to bake. This recipe is adjunct to the Caramelized Pineapple Pudding Cakes, as adventurous bakers can make their own brioche to use in the pineapple bread pudding cakes. I made one big cake and used store bought brioche, but vowed I'd come back and bake the

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This week's Heavenly Cakes selection was actually one of the first things the group baked together in October 2009. Marie titled her post "(How Not To Make) Barcelona Brownie Bars" because she forgot to make the ganache ahead of time, but really, it is hard to mess up brownies. Here's Marie's Last Cake, Next Cake summary of the group's brownies. (Marie redeemed herself in February 2011, making

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Late to the party but finally here, Zach's La Bomba: the Portland contigent, is ready for consumption. For Marie and NancyB, this is their last cake of Rose's Heavenly Cakes, and for all of us, the last official cake of the Heavenly Cakes Bake-Through. The straggler's bake-through will continue with Jenn of Knitty Baker fame manning the helm and as I am 26 cakes from the end, the bake-through

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This is our second-to-last cake in the official bake-through, friends. I am a little sad. However, I still have 26 cakes to go, so I will continue to bake-through with Jenn the Knitty Baker, and I hope those of you who aren't yet finished will continue on. Don't give up now! The cake of the week is actually cupcakes, and is a cake I bake an awful lot around these here parts it seems. Good thing

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A friend invited me over for a Sunday dinner this past weekend. It was a perfect day for a spring dinner as it was our second 70 degree day of 2011. The tulips are blooming and the cheery trees (I mean cherry trees, but they are definitely cheery) are packed with white or pink flowers. There was not a cloud in the sky--hooray! I asked her if I could bring something (hoping it would be cake) and

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Another free choice week for the Heavenly Cake Bakers. This week I chose a cake I've been dying to make ever since the group made it in October 2009. Well, I guess I haven't been THAT dying to make it as I've waited until the last free choice of the bake-through to make it. So let's just say today was the Jancsi Torta's day. (HCB history trivia: this was the first cake of the bake-through!)

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My friend Brains decided to throw a garden party for his birthday this year, to show of all the work he's done to his yard as well as have an excuse to brew a batch of beer and build a fire on the patio. Luckily, his party fell on the first day of 2011 that was 70 degrees and sunny so the turn-out was pretty good as well as in a good mood. I asked if he wanted a birthday cake, and if so, what was

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Cookie turned 29 (again) on tax day, and with her brother and his family in town her mother cooked up a big dinner to celebrate. I was invited as well, since I was bringing her birthday cake. Mrs Tran must have enjoyed the cake because she told me I could come over for dinner anytime I wanted. April 15, 2011 Name of Cake: White on White, part four Occasion: Cookie's 29th Birthday....again

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Ginger is something that I have grown to appreciate. My mom would sneak it into food when I was little but my sister and I didn't like it and would protest dramatically when we tasted it. I pretty much avoided it until I moved to Portland to study acupuncture. To my dismay, I learned that ginger is a key herb in our Materia Medica, as it promotes healthy digestion, warms the digestion,

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This is Rose's take on a classic coconut cake, usually filled and frosted with seven minute frosting and festooned with lots and lots of sweetened flaked coconut. She switched out the marshmallow fluff (seven minute frosting) for her signature Silk Meringue Buttercream and recommends fresh or frozen unsweetened coconut for the festooning. What you get is a delicious coconut cake with a truly

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When I was staying with my sister in San Francisco to help her out at the birth (and post partum) of my favorite nephew in the world, she told me there was a Miette down the street from her apartment. It wasn't the main store (that one is in the Ferry Building) but we walked down there (slowly--she was very pregnant) to check it out. I was hoping there'd be a Tomboy to sample so that I would

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This lovely caramel cake was a snap to prepare, and just as easy to eat. It had a lovely moist, soft crumb, with the caramelly flavors taking this cake further down the road of awesome than my beloved yellow butter cake. Served with the coffee cloud cream this is a welcome addition to my growing list of Cakes That Are Good For Breakfast. April 3, 2011 Name of Cake: The return of breakfast cake

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Hello bakers. This coming Saturday there is a nationwide bakesale for Japan being held. The proceeds will go to Peace Winds Japan. The baked goods will be donated by professionals and amateurs alike. Last year the same organization raised $23,000 for Haiti, and it looks like this year's bakesale will be even bigger. This map shows participating bakesale locations, but I don't think it is too

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I used to dislike chiffon cakes as the texture often was rubbery instead of spongy. In 2005, I tried Rose's Lemon Chiffon Cake in The Cake Bible, and everything I thought I know about chiffon cake was turned on it's head, and rightfully so. Chiffon cakes tend to be baked in a tube pan so that the middle can get some support and heat. This cake is baked in a springform pan to create a typical

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This is a catch-up cake for me as the Heavenly Cake Bakers took care of this one a week and a half ago. I was up to my eyes in visiting Grant brothers, and although that would seem a perfect time to have a homemade cake handy, them boys are not the biggest chocolate fans. Plus I would rather play with the Grant boys than hole up in the kitchen for a day in order to feed them. So, the cake

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Hello bakers. I fell off the baking wagon two weeks ago, missed two delicious-looking chocolate cakes, and just yesterday got my baking mojo back. The clinic is closed for repairs this coming week so I have plenty of time to bake a couple of chocolate cakes, and an orange chiffon layer cake as well....So I hope. In the meantime, Free Cake Week is upon us and I decided to do something that

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So although we Americans call this a cake, apparently the Brits call this a pudding. So what you'll be seeing is a cake, not a bowl full of (American) Pudding. This is a lovely cake made with stout beer and dates, and cinnamon and nutmeg, topped with a delicious butterscotch sauce and a dollop of tangy creme fraiche. For this post in particular I wish we had smell-o-vision, because holy hannah

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So on to part two of the cake tasting. Part one is covered in my Free Cake post for the Heavenly Cake Bakers, the Golden Lemon Almond Cake. The lovely couple are self proclaimed chocolate lovers, and wanted the top tier of their cake to be a chocolate-chocolate love bomb. I decided to do the Chocolate Passion cake for the top tier, which is Rose's German Chocolate Cake base with a milk

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My best friend Cookie called me up a week ago and told me her mom's birthday was coming up, and that she wanted a big party. Mrs. Tran was inviting 20 guests and Cookie said she would cater the dinner. Her sister offered to do the appetizers, then Mrs. Tran asked Cookie if I would make her a birthday cake. I was touched she wanted me to do her cake, and happily agreed. Then Cookie told me

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Hello lovely readers. I just spent Friday through Sunday in my kitchen, baking three different cakes, making four fillings, seven syrups, and three different frostings (one frosting I made three times). I went through about four dozen eggs and five boxes of butter! And when I was done with that, I grabbed my placenta kit and went to somebody else's kitchen to encapsulate their placenta. It is

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Yes my friends, quail eggs. How unique! A quick spin around the internet will laud the amazing properties of the quail egg--healthier than a chicken egg, more rich in flavor, and with pretty little brown speckled shells. Awww...adorable. I once saw a little family of quail dart across the street and scurry under the bushes. They were all in a line, just as you think they would be, and they

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This project sucked up my whole day. Not that spending a Sunday baking is terrible, but I certainly didn't think these cupcakes would turn into an all-day project. However the result is pretty, and pretty darn good. February 06, 2011 Name of Cupcakes: Turtles! Occasion: HCB Constituents: sour cream chocolate cupcake, topped with ganache, soft sticky caramel, toasted pecans, more caramel,

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This week's Heavenly Cake is magical cake alchemy at its best. A tender, buttermilk yellow cake is baked inside a crispy, nutty dacquoise--something I would never have thought possible. Magic, I tell you! January 30, 2011, Name of cake: Magic! Occasion: HCB Constituents: buttermilk cake, chocolate/pecan dacquiose, frosted with leftover caramel ganche The original cradle cake won the

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My clinic is next door to a bustling coffee place, and if you're in the right treatment room you can hear them banging the thingy to pack the cup with espresso grounds as well as hear their dishwasher. That treatment room also has a teeny tiny little bathroom that I don't encourage people to use (there's a perfectly good one just 5 steps away), as it is so compact that you can wash your hands

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Hello and welcome to another installment of Heavenly Cake Bakers: Free Cake Week. Marie is building more Free Cake Weeks into rotation as we near the end of the bake-through. As I look at my list of cakes--what's been baked by the group, what I've baked, what's left--the last category is getting slim indeed. We only have one flourless cake left (Zach's La Bomba!) and by the end of this month

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This week's cake was on the Quick and Easy list, and that's no exaggeration. The cake itself can be cooling on your counter in 30 minutes, and the ganache took even less time. Don't be fooled by the simplicity of the recipe; this cake would be at home on a birthday table as well as a lunch counter. January 09, 2011 Name of Cake: white cake, chocolate frosting Occasion: HCB Constituents: one

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Golden genoise cups, vanilla rum syrup, apricot glaze and chocolate pot de creme. A delicious cake is made of delicious components, and this is no exception. January 3, 2011 Name of Cakes: A Perfect Amount of Chocolate Occasion: HCB Constituents: see above Happy New Year my lovely readers! These little cakes are really easy to make and assemble, despite having several components. The

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This week's Heavenly Cake is a sour cream cheesecake baked inside a ring of pretty ladyfingers. Rose gives the option of making the ladyfingers yourself or cheating and buying the Savioardi biscuits at the store. Since I just arrived back in Portland Sunday afternoon, I decide to cheat and buy the biscuits. Alas. I hang my head in shame. December 27, 2010 Name of Cake: Cheater's

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There is a version of this cake in The Cake Bible (called the Sour Cream Coffee Cake) and it is one of my favorites. I've tried the peach variation, and in one instance I paired the apple version (made partially with whole wheat flour) with strawberry ice cream which turned out to be wonderful. When I saw Rose had a similar version in Heavenly Cakes, I must admit I wasn't too interested in

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My dear friend Coleen celebrated her 60th birthday last week, and asked me to bake her birthday cake.  Her partner was throwing her a big to-do and wanted a cake that would feed about 30 people.  Of course I said yes, how could I not? The last time I made her a birthday cake was in 2006--even though we all remembered it as being two years ago.  Coleen asked for a chocolate-chocolate cake. The

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Oops, forgot to cross post! I don't think I've ever had proper Speculoos, or Speculaas, or Belgian/Dutch Spice Cookies. I've made them before (with the Lazy Bakers!) but since I have no idea how they are supposed to taste I don't know if what I've made is a good Speculoos. But at any rate, I enjoy them but I think I like a spicy Swedish gingersnap better. I also have discovered that when

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Financiers have been hit-or-miss for me, so I was a little wary of these financier-styled pound cakes. I think I have pan anxiety. I didn't buy a financier pan, and unlike other cakes in this book, I wonder if the pan really does make a difference in the final product. Cakes can be turned into cupcakes, individual cakes can be made into one large cake, but financiers? They seem like they

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This week's selection was the wonderful and easy Chocolate Velvet Fudge Cake. I baked this cake the day before I flew to California for Thanksgiving, in the midst of washing clothes (so I could pack), getting things ready for the cat sitter, and trying not to forget anything. I have no photographic evidence of the baking, packing, presenting, or eating of the cake so you'll just have to take

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As usual, I am cross-posting this week's French Fridays with Dorie entry as it is a cake and this a cakeblog after all. Find the rest of my French Fridays with Dorie escapades at the other blog: Everything But The Cake, and click on the badge to the left to learn more about French Fridays with Dorie and see what the other members have been cooking up. This month's French Fridays with Dorie

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A couple of months ago, Cabbage turned the big 40. He didn't want a big party, or even a little party, but I did agree to bake him a cake. He is a chocolate-peanut butter fan so I had a few options in my arsenal. His birthday fell during a time when I was out of town, but I planned to bake his cake before I left. Then...I got busy...and promised to bake him a cake when I returned.

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(At first I typed "Pure Pumpin Cheesecake" which I kind of like. It sounds very '80's.) Welcome to Free Cake Week, where the HCB get a chance to bake or re-bake a cake that Marie or the group has already made. I chose a cake the group baked a year ago, as a (pumpin') pumpkin cheesecake sounded perfect for this rainy November. November 8, 2010 Name of Cake: Pump it up yo Occasion: HCB, and a

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Hello, lovely Bakers. This week's cake is of my favorite variety: the sour cream bundt. I had no idea, before joining the Heavenly Cake Bakers, just how much I love a sour cream bundt. This one, with fresh pear and almond cream, is moist, delicious, and richly satisfying. October 17, 2010 Name of cake: Sour Cream Bundt! (with pears and almond cream) Occasion: HCB, and Raiuchka is in town!

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Today is a typical gray Oregon day, and I planned to spend it cleaning the bathroom, baking a pumpkin cheesecake for next week's Heavenly Cakes (free cake week!), and making some Pumpkin-Gorgonzola flans for next week's French Fridays with Dorie. It is pumpkin time, and I'm still going through last year's canned pumpkin spree. However, running through my blog feed this afternoon, I discovered

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The Bostini, a deconstructed Boston Cream Pie, is up this week for the Heavenly Cake Bakers. A cupful of a pastry cream-creme anglaise is topped with an orange chiffon cupcake and glazed with a chocolate butter glaze. Can you see why we've all been anticipating this project for weeks? October 31, 2010 Name of Cake: Deconstruction is Delicious Occasion: HCB Constituents: vanilla pastry

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So normally I post all the French Fridays with Dorie stuff on the other blog, but since we baked a cake this week, and this blog is all about the shiznit I bake, I'm cross posting. Enjoy! Marie-Helene's Apple Cake is a cake which is as delicious as it is easy, which makes it a winner in every sense. Brimming with apples, buttery and custardy, not too sweet and perfect on its own or with a

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Hello people. This week's cake is really just the Angel Food Cake Base Recipe--a recipe based on one egg white, for us to multiply to our heart's content depending on the size of our baking pan. I considered going all sorts of crazy with the baking pan option (cupcakes! layer cake! bundt cake!), then settled on the classic and simple angel food cake tube pan, which has a 16 egg white capacity

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I will confess that I was mighty skeptical about this quick bread. I don't find the photo in the book appealing and was put off by all the ingredients. So I am pleased to say that I thought it tastes much better than it looks. And the doulas ate it up in minutes flat. October 11, 2010 Name of cake: everything quick bread Occasion: HCB and doula meeting Constituents: carrot/zucchini/banana/

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Fall is here and it is my favorite time of year. The air is crisp, the days are cool, and change is in the air. I love this time of year. Did I mention that already? This weather has been goading me into spending more time in the kitchen, especially in the name of quick breads and muffins. It all started last Saturday, when a few of us ex-doulas got together for a weekend brunch. so sad

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Back when the gooey-centered individual cake craze was happening, I just couldn't get on board. Why would I get excited about cake that wasn't cooked in the middle? So when I saw Rose had a take on these in her book, I was skeptical. I noticed she had replaced the gooey centers of uncooked batter with melty ganache, and thought they must be much better. October 10, 2010 Name of Cakes: No raw

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Hello everyone. This post is going to be down and dirty; I've been really busy this past week. I am not complaining, am I just using it as an excuse. This week's cakes were the Caramelized Pineapple Pudding Cakes--six little ramekins of brioche bread pudding married to a pineapple upside down cake. Very clever little marriage, that, and pretty damn delicious too. However, I couldn't be

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This is just a teaser post. I, like 700 other people, have joined the new group French Fridays with Dorie and today is our first French Friday! In an effort to keep this blog baking centered, I've decided to put all my FFWD posts on my other blog, which required me to resurrect it from the dusty basement of my blogger dashboard. Of course, just to confuse everybody, when FFWD bakes something

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Phew! Last week's Heavenly Cake Bakers' project was this gorgeous, delicious, two day project, seven page recipe Apple Caramel Charlotte. I was out of town but there was no way I was going to skip this cake. Especially since Cookie has been bugging me about it since she found out it was coming up. September 27, 2010 Name of Cake: Cookie's #1 Favorite Fancy Cake. Ever. Occasion: HCB

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I know, chocolate what? Chocolate-zucchini, sure, but a chocolate cake made with condensed tomato soup? Can we say eew? We can, but not about this cake which was a big hit. V-8 should take up the cause; I can just picture the commercial now with a family enjoying the cake and the little vegetable servings count above their heads clicking up a number. This could be a great way to sneak some

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This is my second Heavenly Cake Bakers Free Cake Week submission, because yes, I am a little crazy. It all started out like this: I wrote the Pistachio Cake (Free Cake #1) post last week (it published yesterday), and at the end I counted out how many cakes Marie has baked thus far, how many the HCB have baked thus far, and then how many I have baked. And I was ten cakes short of the HCB, who

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This week the Heavenly Cake Bakers are enjoying Free Cake Week, which gives us a chance to catch up with Marie, who baked 21 cakes before the group bake through began. Every time Marie mentions that we are more than halfway through the book, I nervously compare the number of cakes I've baked versus the number of cakes the group has baked, versus the number of cakes Marie has baked. I need to

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I was invited to a labor day barbecue and was asked to bring the dessert. The hostess made me promise not to make a fuss and bring something easy. Well now, after joining the Heavenly Cake Bakers my definition of an easy dessert has changed a bit, but I knew she didn't want something high-falutin' and fancy-pantsy. So I chose the delicious and down-home upside-down cake. September 6, 2010

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Crispy on the outside, creamy on the inside, these little cakes have exceeded my expectations. September 4, 2010 Name of cupcakes: Two-Bite Financiers Occasion: HCB Constituents: little almond cakes Although to be fair, my expectations were low as I was not impressed by the Peanut Butter Financiers, which we made in March. I am fascinated with financiers, because the HCB seemed to have a

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Cookie called me up a few days before the heat wave started and asked if there was a cake coming up that would be good for a potluck. I suggested the Chocolate Layer Cake with Caramel Ganache, because who doesn't like chocolate? Then the heat wave hit. August 15, 2010 Name of Cake: It Is Freaking Hot Out Occasion: Cookie has a potluck, and HCB Constituents: one 9 in layer chocolate butter

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Cookie cannonballs me in Flathead Lake Last weekend Cookie and I took a road trip to Montana to visit our friend Joelf and his family. Joelf, Cookie, and I met our very first day at Willamette and have been fast friends ever since. That's almost 20 years now! My sister calls us a tripod, but I prefer to call us the Stooges. Joelf has been in the Dominican Republic for several months and

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This week's Heavenly Cake is the Marionberry Shortcake. Marionberries, unlike myself, are an Oregonian native which is probably why I like them so much. It gives me street cred amongst the natives. The Marionberry is is named after Marion county, which encompasses our state capital (and the first place I lived in Oregon) and according to the official Marion County website, "...is the

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After the Plum and Blueberry Upside Down cake post where several of you mentioned never seeing a blueberry bush before, I felt it my duty to introduce you to my favorite berry plant... ...and then I left my camera in the car. So I used my phone, and tried to fix the photos as best I could. So, meet your Oregon Blues! a nice row of blueberry bushes this bush is a bit scraggly, but look at

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We are having a little heat wave here in Portland--nothing compared to everywhere else in the country--but weather here is normally so mild that Portland panics when it gets too hot or too cold. What can I say? We are all weather wimps. Well, we are rain-toughened, but that's about it. Above 90 and we are all OMG IT IS SO HOT OUT, WE ARE GONNA DIE. Unfortunately this means that I have no

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During my first few years in Portland I discovered that this place is crazy for summer fruit: strawberries, cane berries, blueberries, melons, and most importantly, stone fruit. Peaches! Nectarines! Plums! Cherries! They are everywhere in the summer: the grocery stores, farmer's markets, impromptu farm stands by the side of the road, at the u-pick farms outside of Portland in every direction...

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This week's Heavenly Cake is the Lemon Meringue Cake; Rose's take on the lemon meringue pie. I love the lemon, and I sorta like the meringue, so I was curious to see how I would like this cake. August 1, 2010 Name of Cake: Lemony POW! Occasion: HCB Constituents: two layers biscuit soaked with a lemon syrup, filled with lemon curd, frosted with lemon italian meringue This reminds me of the

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I actually baked these cupcakes on July 17, but before I could post them life and a trip to Toronto got in the way. So here I am, back on the West Coast and getting back in the game! These chocolaty cupcakes are really the deep chocolate passion wedding cake in cupcake form. As you may recall I made one tier of that cake for my friend Brains when he turned old. Hence, I will lazily direct

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I made this cake in January 2010, and since it wasn't "in the oven" I don't know when you all are reading about it. Cookie was going to a potluck and she asked me to bake a cake for her, which I agreed to as long as she promised to do like my mother and tell everyone she baked it. She laughed, agreed, and I lent her Rose's Heavenly Cakes so she could pick out her cake. We were baking the

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These little pound cakes are the perfect size for gifting, but why would you want to give them away? Actually, I will give one of these to my best friend Joelf, who turns just as old as Cookie and I today. His favorite flavor is vanilla, and he is a lover of the pound cake. He is also a lover of booze, and as these are soaked in a boozy syrup they are right up his alley. Unfortunately he

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In my younger days I often chose the ice cream cake from the local Baskin and Robbins as my birthday cake. I was always a firm believer in cake AND ice cream, so finding a cake that was both was a real treat. I loved the ice cream cake so much that four years ago I attempted to make a couple of homemade ice cream cakes using genoise rounds as the cakes. I also used dry ice to keep the cakes

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I put the Rose in parenthesis since the cake is named after the rose tube pan (and Rose, the author too I bet!) and I didn't bake my genoise in that pan. If only I knew the name of my tube pan, then I could call it Genoise [insert name of tube pan here].* Oh well. You get the point. June 27, 2010 Name of Cake: A Giant Genoise Occasion: HCB Constitutents: Literally, a giant genoise with

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Well, baking friends, this cheesecake turned out to be more like a cheesecake pudding than an actual cheesecake. And when I say pudding I mean like the stuff in a cup that Bill Cosby used to pimp. Which isn't bad, necessarily. don't let this shot fool you! June 21, 2009 Name of Pudding: Coconut-Cheesecake Pudding Occasion: HCB Constituents: Coconut-cookie crust (sorta) with coconut

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It is strawberry time here in Oregon and we've had so much rain up until last Saturday that the strawberry fields have been left alone to grow big, plump, super ripe berries. Luckily, Saturday was a sunny and warm day (the first this season!) and the Jellos (Cookie and Cabbage) invited me to go strawberry picking with them. The farm was situated on a lovely hillside looking west over the

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When I got my copy of Roses' Heavenly Cakes I was so excited to see this cake in there as it looks so pretty! A local coffee shop/dessert house often has a cake like this which you can buy by the slice, which I have, but their cakes are often mediocre. I looked forward to baking Rose's version and proclaiming it The Winner! June 13, 2010 Name of cake: Chocolate Strawberry Cake Occasion: HCB

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There comes a time in every girl's life when she really needs her chocolate fix. Like, when all she is thinking about is chocolate, and when she can get some chocolate, and what kind of chocolate, and in what form of delivery she wants her chocolate, and when this chocolate consumption can take place. You may think she is listening to you talk about your in-laws, or your back pain, or that

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This week is the Heavenly Baker's free cake week, and I chose the decadent and wonderful St Honore Trifle. The HCB made this trifle in early May, and everyone said such wonderful things about how delicious it was that I decided this would be not only be my free cake choice, but also my birthday cake. May 23, 2010, Name of Cake: A Freaking Huge Trifle Occasion: HCB, and my birthday/

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The Gateau Breton was the last thing I will have baked in my kitchen before I pack it up and move into the new apartment. I would just like to say thank you, tiny kitchen, for the 5 years of baking extravaganzas you have supported. And for anyone using the excuse that your kitchen is too small to do any baking, then think again. In this kitchen, with that little counter space, I began my

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I almost didn't make this cake, as I am in the middle of packing up my apartment. I already packed away all of my baking gear, but squirreled away the tools I would need for this cake just in case. After reading Raymond and ButterYum's posts on their cakes, I decided that I could make one more cake in this kitchen. For old time's sake. May 9, 2010 Name of Cake: Gateau Breton Occasion: HCB

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