In the past I have been forbidden from baking my own Birthday cakes, something about not laboring on your special day and letting others do all the work in preparation for your birthday celebration. Generally I would agree with the sentiment. It’s the one day out of the year where you should automatically get a…
Tag: Cake
Bourbon Butterscotch Peach Cakes
I have really been slacking on my blog posts lately. There is just something about these lazy summer days that keeps me out, about, and away from my computer. The garden, the lake, even laying out on a blanket in the grass seems to be a better draw to me then the kitchen these days….
Mocha Ice-Cream Cake
My Mother put in a request for a Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream cake for her birthday this year, and while I love the ice-cream and cake combo, I have found that most commercial ice-cream cakes fail dismally when it comes to the cake side of the equation. If I wanted ice-cream in the shape of…
Pastel de Tres Leches
Pastel de Tres Leches or three milks cake is a personal favorite of mine, and has, surprisingly, not made to onto this blog yet. Shocker! and past time to remedy that. Tres Leches is a light sponge cake that gets soaked through with a mixture of evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and heavy cream. How…
The Ephemeral Bee 