For the next year I am doing a project - a different cake each week
for an entire year - following the book All
Cakes Considered: A Year's Worth of Weekly Recipes Tested, Tasted and
Approved by the Staff of NPR's All Things Considered. You can read
about the start of my project here
and look at each week to date here.
Yippee! I'm moving on from pound cakes.
The recipe: Key Lime Cake
This one had me a bit stumped. I've seen limes around, obviously, but I wasn't really sure what a key lime is and whether or not I could substitute regular old Safeway limes. Hello google (and thank goodness for Facebook).
It felt good to be cooking a cake in a regular round pan - more like what I imagined my year of cakes would be like. The recipe was a fairly simple white cake with a lime glaze over top. And it was cooked perfectly! I have a convection oven and always have used the convection setting but this time went with the regular bake setting and it worked.
The cake looked gorgeous with the sprinkling of icing sugar I added at the end. And since we were eating it as a dessert for Father's Day, I served it with a bit of whipping cream on the side to fancy it up a bit. Berries would look (and taste) great with it too.
Recipients: Father's Day at my parents' house. I'm only on week 4 and already people are piping up offering their "tasting services". Last week Jim was grumbling about the fact that I'm baking a cake a week yet we never have any cake in the house. I have to say, it's coming in handy to know I'm cooking a cake every week - I can just schedule my baking time for the night before I need a dessert.
Verdict: Delicious. I'll definitely make this one again but I'm going to try using regular limes instead of key limes next time and I'll only put half the amount of glaze on top. My sister thought the glaze was too sweet so I'm probably cut down the amount of icing sugar in the glaze too.
Up next: Procrastinatin' Drunken Monkey Banana Bread. This one involves flambeeing cherries so cross your fingers for me that I don't burn our kitchen down.
Yippee! I'm moving on from pound cakes.
The recipe: Key Lime Cake
This one had me a bit stumped. I've seen limes around, obviously, but I wasn't really sure what a key lime is and whether or not I could substitute regular old Safeway limes. Hello google (and thank goodness for Facebook).
It felt good to be cooking a cake in a regular round pan - more like what I imagined my year of cakes would be like. The recipe was a fairly simple white cake with a lime glaze over top. And it was cooked perfectly! I have a convection oven and always have used the convection setting but this time went with the regular bake setting and it worked.
The cake looked gorgeous with the sprinkling of icing sugar I added at the end. And since we were eating it as a dessert for Father's Day, I served it with a bit of whipping cream on the side to fancy it up a bit. Berries would look (and taste) great with it too.
Recipients: Father's Day at my parents' house. I'm only on week 4 and already people are piping up offering their "tasting services". Last week Jim was grumbling about the fact that I'm baking a cake a week yet we never have any cake in the house. I have to say, it's coming in handy to know I'm cooking a cake every week - I can just schedule my baking time for the night before I need a dessert.
Verdict: Delicious. I'll definitely make this one again but I'm going to try using regular limes instead of key limes next time and I'll only put half the amount of glaze on top. My sister thought the glaze was too sweet so I'm probably cut down the amount of icing sugar in the glaze too.
Up next: Procrastinatin' Drunken Monkey Banana Bread. This one involves flambeeing cherries so cross your fingers for me that I don't burn our kitchen down.
This cake pretty much looks like heaven to me. Yummy!! My brother lived in Ft. Lauderdale for two years and came home addicted to key lime anything. He'd really love this.
Next weeks cake sounds awesome too. Banana anything is pretty much as good as anything lime!
I'm glad you got the oven working for you. :)
Now this one looks and sounds amazing! YUM!
Now this one looks and sounds amazing! YUM!