ABC: Orange Chiffon Tweed Cake with Milk n' Honey Sabayon

October 06, 2010 by Monica in ABC, Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Desserts, Sweets

Yesterday I became an aunt (indirectly, since this was from Tom’s side of the family). This perfect little baby girl that we all be waiting for decided that 12:11am was a good time to make her way into the world.

Do you know what we were doing at 12:11am yesterday?

Tom and I were cutting into this cake to have a taste. From this day forward I will officially call this cake “Sienna’s Birthday cake” in honor of my new niece.

Way to go kid, being born when you aunt Monica was busy baking. You and I are going to get along just fine.

I never

ABC: All American Chocolate Cake with Divinity Frosting and Milk Chocolate Paint

September 07, 2010 by Monica in ABC, Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, Sweets

After having crashed and burned on the last chocolate offering on my other baking clubs, this recipe, from the ABC choice of the month had a very high expectations even before I read the whole recipe.

My reasoning behind it was that after having baked four recipes from Flo Braker book none have disappointed me. So we were 4 for 4. Can we make five?

My first tip to you is this. Bake the cake a day ahead, while is NOT a complicated cake to make, and nowhere in the instructions does it tell you to do this, I’m going to highly recommend you do. The high crumb level on this cake will make frosting a bit of a mess. So I opted to make the cake a day ahead and place in the refrigerator to chill. When frosting time came, it was smooth sailing all the way.

ABC: Apricot-Almond-Berry Buckle

August 04, 2010 by Monica in ABC, Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Cookbooks, Desserts, Fruit, Sweets

Remember a couple of weeks ago when I sang the praises of the yumylisious Lemon-Scented Pull-Apart Coffee cake?

The one that I have baked 4 6 times and made me embrace my inner conflicted relationship with yeast and rolling pins.

Well, I was so impress that I ran out and bough Flo Braker book "Baking for All Occasions. Because I knew that if she could pull that off with a coffee cake, what else can she pull off?

Afterwards, I got a shout out from a fellow HCB baker, Hannaa from Hanaa’s Kitchen who along with her friend Wafae launched a monthly baking project called the ABC of the Month, which stand for “Avid Baker’s Challenge of the month”. The concept is to choose a book and to bake from it and post the results on the first Tuesday of each month. Guess which book they choose to with in 2010?

uh, yeah...I joined them faster than you can type – “I’m in!”