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Carrot cake, well, really good carrot cake, is a labor of love. This version, my mom's recipe, is my most favorite cake in the Universe. It's moist and savory and sweet and full of walnuts, carrot and golden raisins. It has coconut and just the right amount of sweetness and spice. And don't get me started on the cream cheese frosting. How can you go wrong? <br />
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Here's the fun cake I made as my contribution to our Easter feast. Jane dyed some coconut green to serve as an Easter grass garnish and we added some jelly bean eggs to the "grass" to make it even sweeter! <br />
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It's super moist chocolate cake topped with brown sugar cream cheese frosting (tastes like caramel cheesecake if you ask me), drizzled with homemade caramel sauce and sprinkled with chopped pecans. Heavenly. <br />
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It was this esteem for coffee that inspired these delicious morsels. Chocolate cake with fresh brewed coffee buttercream, topped with a chocolate chip espresso shortbread cookie. Heaven. Plain and simple, heaven.<br />
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Here are Martha's <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/brown-sugar-pound-cupcakes-with-brown-butter-glaze?backto=true">Brown Sugar Pound Cupcakes</a>. Instead of the boring glaze Martha recommends for these lovely cakes, I topped them with her brown sugar cream cheese frosting. Mmmmmmm! This frosting is so soft and smooth, it's like a rich sauce for your cake. And your life. To up the ante a bit more, I sprinkled chopped pecans on half of the cakes and drizzled just a bit of caramel over them.<br />
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Here she is, the birthday girl! Isn't she sweet? Of course she is! She loved her birthday cake! Of course she did! It was so good! <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">There's a but. A big one. But, Sunday night, I fell down my stairs. Just missed a step and flew down the rest of them. I was laid up for a couple of days so I was not able to bring Dorothy her cupcakes! She never even got to taste her wonderfully rich cake or let the sinfully silky frosting just melt on her tongue! Boo! </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I don't think it's broken, but the jury's still out. Nah, I'm just waiting for the results. It still works though. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And here's the birthday boy! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On the left he's with his sister Lilly and </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">on the right, hamming it up for the camera. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">This whole sheet of cookies is from just one batch. Here they are, chock full of bacony goodness, ready to go into the oven to get nice and crispy. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">And here they are, cooling off, ready to be totally inhaled in one bite!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Just because he's so cute I had to include him, here's Monkey, the eponymous muse for these treats and my most favorite boy in the whole world!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<em>Que romantico!</em><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Chip ordered a chocolate chip cake with both raspberry buttercream and mocha buttercream, covered in <a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/07/project-wedding-cake-swiss-buttercream/">vanilla buttercream</a> and shaved <a href="http://www.callebaut.com/usen/50">white chocolate</a>. He wanted it to be in the style of a traditional, tiered wedding cake, but understated with a simple topper and very little embellishment. </div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When Chip asked me to make the cake for their special day, I had to admit that it would be my first wedding cake, and in fact, my very first tiered cake. He was all in, so I got to work researching the process of <a href="http://www.wilton.com/wedding/wedding-cakes/">stacking cakes</a>. I had nothing to worry about because I can always count on good friend Lindsey, an extremely <a href="http://lawofcupcakes.blogspot.com/">talented baker</a>, to help me along the process with advice she picked up while baking her <a href="http://lawofcupcakes.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-brothers-wedding-cake.html">brother's wedding cake</a> and the <a href="http://lawofcupcakes.blogspot.com/2009/08/luau-shower.html">other</a> gorgeous <a href="http://lawofcupcakes.blogspot.com/2009/04/showers-of-happiness.html">tiered cakes</a> in her repertoire. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em>Congratulations Chip & Jane! I hope your special day was wonderful, and that you enjoyed the cake! May your next 40 years together be filled with good health, tremendous joy and much laughter!</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Cake+Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02305287426272717186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708163574792444527.post-79985534964330938662010-07-19T00:27:00.001-04:002010-07-19T00:29:34.387-04:00Blackberry Breakfast Bars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgul-eOy_Q9D7PHHmJC4ja_PnvvFVPgrKh215e6x3xB5P6GMNx5Cqbpo9NLUTBPwhlzFpWa6c9H7_eCYIfohUOcvClg_WgU4Mi1HXtS2B4J7fMTZHdC53GAJVQoZ5IVo5w56bpvUaa-km4/s1600/IMG_7934.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" hw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgul-eOy_Q9D7PHHmJC4ja_PnvvFVPgrKh215e6x3xB5P6GMNx5Cqbpo9NLUTBPwhlzFpWa6c9H7_eCYIfohUOcvClg_WgU4Mi1HXtS2B4J7fMTZHdC53GAJVQoZ5IVo5w56bpvUaa-km4/s640/IMG_7934.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These lovely bars are filled with blackberries* and surrounded by a delicious, slightly crunchy, entirely chewy oatmeal shortbread. The recipe came from my favorite food blog, <a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/09/raspberry-breakfast-bars/">smitten kitchen</a>. I used blackberries instead of raspberries because they were picked about an hour before I arrived at my favorite farmstand. I'm a sucker for fresh picked berries. Next though, I've got to try them with peaches. Doesn't that just sound dreamy? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">*I've been semi-obsessed with blackberries since my friend Sharif taught me that they are members of a fruit family called </span></em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupe"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">drupes</span></em></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>, which essentially are a fleshy fruit with a stone hidden inside. Other drupes include cherries, mangoes, plums, nectarines, peaches, dates, and olives. Blackberries are a special kind of drupe, the berry's flesh is composed of "aggregated drupelets." Drupelets! How cute is that?</em> </span></div>Cake+Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02305287426272717186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708163574792444527.post-43765645205841465182010-07-11T16:38:00.000-04:002010-07-11T16:38:43.859-04:00Happy Birthday to My Girls!<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18sFgS9PFSn_VQPW_WEXyYBlu5jILDPcDfJr5SPtdgq78kDsyiPgvgCsyDgSCmYcSsuskGSUW4mweBUxgGmCPjRelonwpX4KCKwgeBOVYusPXF0rl2SNhezVpAZWSUdwIB73sKv3JxCk/s1600/IMG_7921.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18sFgS9PFSn_VQPW_WEXyYBlu5jILDPcDfJr5SPtdgq78kDsyiPgvgCsyDgSCmYcSsuskGSUW4mweBUxgGmCPjRelonwpX4KCKwgeBOVYusPXF0rl2SNhezVpAZWSUdwIB73sKv3JxCk/s320/IMG_7921.JPG" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Heather & Erin are the kind of people you really want to be around, the kind of friends who, no matter how long it's been since you saw them last, you just fit together again seamlessly, as though no time at all had passed between you. Isn't that the best kind of friends? They're smart and funny and loyal, they're motivated and passionate and kind, and when it's been more than a couple months between visits, I get cranky and feel an actual physical need to spend some time with them. This weekend was our long overdue chance to reconnect. </div><br />
We celebrated their birthdays at a great outdoor beer garden. We caught up, we laughed, we talked about love, law, politics, reality TV, food, you know, the usual. And we had cake. Of course we had cake! <br />
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Heather is a red velvet with cream cheese frosting junkie, so that's what she got. I whipped up some chocolate with chocolate buttercream for Erin because she should have a special cake too. Two birthdays, two types of cake. Both cakes were a huge hit, but the red velvet was responsible for the marriage proposals flying around everywhere. Red velvet will do that to you.<br />
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Admittedly, my pictures are terrible, but the bars are tasty enough to compensate for that. If you want good pictures, click the link to smitten kitchen. Deb, smitten kitchen diva, does it all, baking, mothering, photos, funny, all of it. <br />
She's pretty much what I want to be when I grow up. <br />
I just bake good stuff and take crappy pictures of it. <br />
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<em>*In case you missed it, the recipe was posted in the comments!</em></div>Cake+Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02305287426272717186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708163574792444527.post-82733410681464453422010-07-03T13:05:00.001-04:002010-07-04T18:02:44.759-04:00Happy 4th of July!These festive cuties are the life of the party! They are for Ann, one of the directors at work. She's got a huge family that's really close and loves to spend time together. No, really! Ann ordered up 3 dozen cupcakes for a family BBQ and wanted a bit of a patriotic theme. Happy to oblige!<br />
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What you're looking at now is chocolate & double vanilla cupcakes, half with red, white & blue vanilla buttercream and half with good ol' chocolate buttercream. Just to pretty up the chocolate buttercream, I added some picks that look a little like fireworks. Fun!<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">A slab pie? Yeah, it's a big ol' slab of pie. That's a 10"x15" baking pan, not a 9" pie plate. Besides the incredible taste and tender crust, the best thing about this pie is that you can slice it into squares, pick it up and eat it just like that, from your hand. No fork, no spoon, unless of course you're like, "Hey, I know! Ice cream!" </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The recipe calls for a glaze on top, just a plain confectioner's sugar glaze, but I decided to forego it and let the tartness of the cherries pop, unadulterated by any more sugar than what's baked inside. Admittedly though, it does look a little prettier with a glaze. Pretty is overrated. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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But here I am, publishing them. From this point on, I'll post about my current projects and do my very best to capture decent photos. Enjoy!Cake+Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02305287426272717186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708163574792444527.post-52865042192842427062010-06-12T22:35:00.000-04:002010-06-12T22:35:42.904-04:00Sunday Brunch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>My friend Erin, you remember her from the jam post, comes to visit me a few times a year on holiday three-day weekends. She lives about two and a half hours away so obviously that justifies the baking of cake! As if I needed an excuse. Humor me. <br />
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Most recently, Erin visited over the Easter weekend. These were the cakes we celebrated with. We brought some to our friends Matt & Jenn, a ridiculously cute couple we brunched with at the world's best brunch spot, Honey's Sit & Eat in Philly's Northern Liberties neighborhood. If you haven't been, stop what you're doing and go there. On second thought, the hour wait for brunch is long enough. Nevermind, go to Chili's, forget I said anything. <br />
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