Heavenly Cake List

September 1st, 2010

Just a quick post to remind my fellow heavenly cake bakers about the list of the cakes in Rose’s Heavenly Cakes that I have put together. I just updated it with the recent cakes. If a cake has a line through the title, that means we’ve baked it since the group started last fall. If it has a link to one of Marie’s posts, but doesn’t have a line through and a date next to it, that means Marie baked it before the group started. The lines through the dates are just for me to keep track of my own progress on cakes I’ve made and cakes I haven’t. If no line through, no link, and no date, that means it’s not on the schedule and has not yet been baked by any of us, including Marie, so isn’t an ideal choice for free choice week.

Chocolate layer cake with Caramel Ganache

August 31st, 2010

I’m going to do a quick all-picture post, because a) I’m already late posting this, and b) I’m on vacation today and don’t really feel like spending a lot of time in front of the computer, which is why this is late to begin with. :)

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Strawberry Shortcake

August 23rd, 2010

Ok, so it’s supposed to be marionberry shortcake with the heavenly cake bakers this week, but my husband says “marionberry” is the mayor of Washington, and there was no mayor of Washington to be found in my grocery store’s freezer section, so I used fresh strawberries from Herrles, supplemented with a handful from my own patch of 5 everbearing plants. How can you beat that?

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I think I have some canning to do

August 18th, 2010

Tomatoes

My husband just emailed me the above picture from his blackberry. Looks like I know what we’re doing tonight! That’s from about a 4 x 20 ft section of garden.

Plum and Blueberry Upside Down Torte

August 9th, 2010

I’m back!

I think this week’s heavenly cake bakers choice was perfect timing. It’s definitely quick and easy, but it also involved heating a sugar syrup on the stove, so I got to use the new gas stove, as well as my new oven. We don’t have our cabinets yet, but everything else is in the kitchen. My good friend Matt and his girlfriend came over on Saturday afternoon and helped us move the new appliances in, as well as move the fridge and our old extra free-standing cabinet back into the kitchen from the dining room, so we can cook again!

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