Daring Bakers - 6th Challenge: The Perfect Party Cake

March 30, 2008 at 12:03 am | In Challenge, Daring Bakers, baking, cooking challenge, sweet |
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Perfect Party CakeThis month’s Daring Bakers Challenge, hosted by Morven (Food Art and Random Thoughts), was the “Perfect Party Cake”, taken from  Dorie Greenspan’s book Baking from my Home to Yours. This recipe called for plenty of lemons for the cake part, and enough butter all around to make Paula Dean proud. My mouth was watering just reading the instructions.

On a quiet Friday morning, I printed the recipe and jumped right in. My KitchenAid made the whole process pretty painless. Like pretty much every DB recipe, this one seemed more daunting than the actual process turned out to be. My cakes came out moist and light, despite not rising much (a step involving whisking the egg whites and the buttermilk had been left out inadvertedly in the instructions) and the buttercream was just divine. Give me a recipe I can just beat the living daylights out of, any day. The preserve used between the layers was left to us. I decided to make the Strawberry Preserves with Black Pepper and Balsamic Vinegar, found on the Food Network site. Turned out lovely and balanced well with the lemon flavour of the cake. Big success all around. Bonus: 8 egg yolks to make ice cream (chocolate and vanilla).

Can’t wait to see the April challenge! :)

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  1. Wow, impressed with the cake and the strawberry preserve with black pepper and balsamic !!

    Comment by foodie froggy — March 30, 2008 #

  2. Yes, very creative !

    Comment by Lucy V — March 30, 2008 #

  3. Liz, your cake looks just lovely. The preserves were a great idea too - hope you shared the joy around!

    Comment by Annemarie — March 30, 2008 #

  4. Looks wonderful! I’m glad you enjoyed the cake.

    Comment by Claire — March 30, 2008 #

  5. What a great preserve choice. Well done!

    j

    Comment by jasmine — March 30, 2008 #

  6. Your cake is simply lovely…and looks super delicious too :)

    Comment by Anne — March 30, 2008 #

  7. mmmmm…. strawberries! YUM! Looks like it was completely delicious.

    Comment by Ritusmei — March 30, 2008 #

  8. Beautiful job!! It looks delicious!

    Comment by Deborah — April 1, 2008 #

  9. such a cool cake you have there! amazingly good!

    Comment by Big Boys Oven — April 2, 2008 #

  10. Nice flavor combo!

    Comment by Lisa — April 2, 2008 #

  11. Hi fellow DBer! So true that baking often seems more daunting than it actually turns out to be once you start…why is that? I always seem to forget that making a great cake takes about the same time as ordering one and going to pick it up but is so much less expensive and so much more fun when you do it yourself.

    Nice job!

    Comment by danamccauley — April 3, 2008 #

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