TWD: Lots-of-Ways Banana Cake

It’s funny how sometimes both of my baking groups (Heavenly Cake Bakers and Tuesday with Dorie) are in synch and totally random pick a recipe that shares a common ingredient.  Sometimes the recipes are so close that I have to make an executive decision and choose which one I want to bake more.  No sense in having 2 cakes in the house, especially when I try to get rid of it as fast as I can in the first place – no temptation in sight!

This past weekend Tuesday with Dorie choice won.  Thank you to Kimberly from Only Creative Opportunities who made the choice.

And what a choice it was.

This cake was very simple to make (the best kind) and as Dorie explains very flexible. Since you pretty much can replace any of the ingredients with what you have at hand – which in my mind means one thing:

No trip to the supermarket to find an ingredient that I ran out and forgot to put on my shopping list.

Have I mentioned how I hate to go to the supermarket?

No? Well now you know – your welcome.

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TWD: Mocha-Walnut Marbled Bundt Cake

Since I’m batting 2 for 2 with my other baking club, I was looking forward to making this cake with the TWD group.  Because, I desperatly wanted my baking mojo back.  This week’s pick was compliments of Erin over at When in doubt…leave it at 350

Easy-peasy cake, with very straight forward ingredients – Walnuts, Chocolate and Coffee.  I was so confident on the easypeasy part that I started to bake this cake at 9pm, last night (yeah, folks l literally baked on a Tuesday with Dorie).

Now, I’m a huge fan of chocolate and coffee combos – HUGE!

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