Cake #42 Apple Cider Cake

Fall is here! And with that comes the annual trip to Webber's Farm to get apple cider, apple butter, and pumpkins. In addition, fall means the annual camping trip for Halloween with Ted's family, hence the late posting. We got up early on Saturday to make the two hour apple cider cake and then headed to Gettysburg to do some camping. This camping entails trick or treating for kids and decorating the camp site. Evalyn was a pound puppy for trick or treating. See pictures below:

Our day ended with eating the Apple Cider Cake, warmed. The cake took two hours to make and bake and consisted of vanilla, eggs, flour, sugar, butter, apple cider, baking soda, 6 cored apples, cinnamon and raw brown sugar. You actually placed the whole apples inside of the cake and bakes them down- it tasted delicious.


My cake:

 The book's picture:

This week coming up is only a four day week, thank goodness, so I am hoping to relax and finally catch up on some house work.

Until then...

Cake # 41 Banana Pecan Cake Part 5

In the end this cake was made with my homemade dulce de leche, heavy cream, pecan halves and chopped pecans, bananas, vanilla, eggs, sugar, butter, baking powder, and flour.

Here is my cake:

Here is the book's

Because fall is here, next week I will be making an apple cider cake. So tomorrow Evalyn, Ted, and myself will take a trip to Webber's farm and get some fresh apple cider. See you next week!

Cake # 41 Banana Pecan Cake Part 4

Evie and...Shakespeare?! Eating the cake!

Cake # 41 Banana Pecan Cake Part 3

The finished product.

Cake # 41 Banana Pecan Cake Part 2

Dulce de leche part 2

Cake # 41 Banana Pecan Cake

You know what I like most about baking? No one judges you except yourself- and even if you fail at making a masterpiece, you learned something in the process and you had fun. That is not something that I can say about many things. Today's cake blog is a little different because the cake I made required me to do something a little different. I had to make dulce de leche (aka caramel sauce) from scratch (Safeway didn't have any in stock). So because this was something I had only read about but never had done, I decided to record the process. Therefore this blog will take place in a couple of posts. Enjoy.

Making dulce de leche:

Cake # 40 Marzipan Chunk Cupcakes

So, Marzipan again. With the disaster that was the Easter Cake of 2011, I was more than a little hesitant to tempt another cake with Marzipan, especially since it is such an expensive ingredient (an one that even Wegman's does not carry). However, this recipe was the easiest cake recipe that I have completed yet, and the Marzipan tasted great - turns out Marzipan that isn't past its expiration date isn't so bad, go figure. These cupcakes basically taste like the inside of an almond joy- besides the almond paste, or Marzipan, they called for flour, cornstarch, baking powder, butter, sugar, eggs, and almond extract, which I think smells wonderful.

They only took 20 minutes to make, which is about all that I have to give to baking today. We had our school's pep rally and homecoming day yesterday, our Junior Class car wash this morning at Pat's (which was freezing) and our homecoming dance tonight, which yours truly and her hubby are making a repeat of 2002 only this time as monitors of the punch bowl.

Here is what the book's picture looked like:

And are my much more fuller cupcakes:

PS- Fundraising is my least favorite thing in the world- but I really do have some amazing kids this year, so I wouldn't want to do it with any other class.