Bake 52: Week 36

Tunnel of Fudge Cake

This was an excellent choice this week!  Tunnel. of. fudge. cake.  YUM! I really don't know what else I can say.  Except that I literally ate too much cake and made myself sick. 
Really sick.  My hubby was making fun of me for eating so much cake, but it was too good, I couldn't stop myself.  Easy and lovely, I will make again! (and I will share!)

Check out Janet's Blog for the recipe!

Bake 52: Week 19

This week we baked
New York-Style Crumb Cake

This recipe looked good when I checked it out.  In my mind I thought "OK, we are going to make a coffee cake".  Then for some reason I decided to try and figure out why this is New York-Style and not just Crumb Cake.  Well, I honestly don't know, other than they say the first recipe came from Germany to an ancestor in New York and that's where it started...as you can tell I didn't research too hard.  HOWEVER, I did find out that you NEVER confuse a coffee cake and a crumb cake! Why?  The crumbs, I guess.  Apparently it is offensive.  Glad I know now!

Anyway...this cake was delicious!  Not too sweet or rich, but moist, sweet enough and seriously addicting!! I couldn't stop eating it. I really like cakes with this cinnamon flavor, but have never made a crumb (or coffee) cake.  So glad we tried this, I will definitely make again. Would be fun to take to a breakfast or brunch! 

Check out the recipe on Jenn's Blog!

Bake 52: Week 15

Take 3 layers of rich chocolate cake, fill & cover them with rich chocolate pudding (and another layer of cake crumbs) and what do you get?
Chocolate Blackout Cake!

I had never seen or tasted this cake, but my-oh-my was it delicious!

It was actually quite easy to make and a forgiving cake too - I don't know about everyone else, but I had a hard time getting the cakes cut in half and staying together.  Luckily I could piece them together and cover them with pudding!  This cake is extremely rich, but delicious!  My kids loved it too, but could only eat a small amount.  I ate way more than I planned, but couldn't resist all of the CHOCOLATE!

I would definitely try this cake again.  I would also just make the pudding by itself, I had never made pudding from scratch and it turned out to be really easy. Check out Courtney's Blog for the recipe!

Bake 52: Week 14

Who doesn't love a Tres Leches cake? What is not to love? Cake. Heavy Cream. Sweetened Condensed Milk. More Cream. Oh - and this recipe even has you cook the sweetened condensed milk to make dulce de leche. Ok, you had me at Tres Leches. 

I thought I would be so nice this week and make a gluten-free cake, not only for my husband, but for my sister-in-law who was in town visiting. I was so excited with this recipe and the steps. Somehow, my flour substitution didn't go so well (you never know what you're going to get when you go gluten-free!). My batter was very runny, but I baked it anyway. It did bake up nice and absorb the milk mixture nicely. However, the middle of the cake was super dense and dry. How could it be dry when I poured that much milk on top of it? BUT the edge pieces of the cake were marvelous (especially the next day). For some reason, the cake around the edges turned out perfect and absorbed the milk like it should. Kris and I ate all of the edge pieces (one bite at a time.  How did those bites add up to half a cake?!?) Saturday while we worked on putting in a kitchen floor - it's what got us through! One tip - this cake goes really well with diet coke! (OK, really, what doesn't?) So - I will definitely try this again. I have baked a GF Tres Leches before and it turned out great, I just messed something up on this recipe. Definitely have to do a redo. This recipe was fabulous and I'm glad it was chosen! Check out Amanda's Blog to get the recipe!

My sister-in-law gave it two thumbs up (thumbs get cut off when you use a camera on your phone).  Unfortunately, this was before she actually tasted it. And she got a middle piece.  Sorry Julie!