Making everything for the first time
It’s Valentines Day. Or at least it was 48 minutes ago. But that’s not the only reason I tried this strawberry milk cake recipe from The Kitchn. The photos made it look so scrumptious that I’ve been obsessing about it for days and I figured that’s a valid enough reason to bake it. I don’t [...]
NOTE: This is a semi-disaster. What did I do wrong? I didn’t use the small red plums. I’d advise using those instead of these larger, blander ones. What else? I used too much whole-wheat flour. Try using purely APF or a smaller ratio of whole-wheat. Smitten Kitchen’s original recipe calls for 8 small plums. I [...]
I stumbled upon this recipe by accident while I was Googling wedding cakes. Apparently, it’s a bohemian pumpkin spiced wedding cake. Recently, I’ve been having a love affair with pumpkin. I’ve tried pumpkin soup, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pasta, pumpkin cinnamon rolls, and pumpkin oatmeal (oh yeah, it was good!). Why not pumpkin cake? And since [...]
NOTE: As you can see from the photos, this experiment was a disaster. That cake itself was good but the whole thing made me cringe. What did I do wrong? I didn’t mix the frosting right. And what’s worse is that I applied the frosting while the cake was still warm. MAJOR NO NO! The [...]
Also known as the heart-shaped man-cake. My dad turned 51 today. I promised that I would make something appropriately birthdayish to bring to work. Last night, I conked out while reading at 7:30 pm. I woke up at 4 am the next day, realized that I had made NOTHING and that I had 3 hours [...]
