Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Cake - The Farm Chicks. The Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake. Can I let you in on a little secret?
Baking brings out the perfectionist in me. I have very high standards for how things look, especially if it’s going to end up on my blog. And it was especially important to me that this cake look perfect. Why? Because this is one of my favorite cakes, right up there with the chocolate raspberry cake. The first time I made this cake, way before I started blogging, it looked perfect. That’s why this past weekend, I headed to the kitchen and made it again. When I made this cake last week (you know, the cake I was so embarrassed of I couldn’t take any pictures of it), it was for a birthday bash at my in-law’s house. I’m telling you, this cake is amazing. Sour Cream-Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting and Chocolate-Peanut Butter Glaze Adapted from Sky High: Irresistable Triple-Layer Cakes via Smitten Kitchen This cake is seriously intense, in a very good way.
Ingredients For the Chocolate Cake Layers For the Peanut Butter Frosting Instructions. Glazed Lemon Cake from Scratch-no mix needed! Glazed Lemon Bundt Cake from scratch This past weekend I was craving Lemon Cake, which is a good way to use up all of those lemons from sam’s club.
I did not have a recipe for it, but I love lemon and have no idea why I don’t have one! So I’m thinking finding a good one will take no time at all, as it’s a fairly popular flavor and not too complicated, right? Well, I did find many, but it seemed that all of them called for starting out with a lemon cake MIX, what?!? Seriously, recipe after recipe called for a boxed “mix” or lemon pudding, but I wanted to make was one from *scratch*. Well I wasn’t about to give up, as when I get a craving it doesn’t go away, so 20 minutes or so later I finally found this recipe for INCREDIBLE LEMON CAKE! Oh, and I recommend allowing the cake to cool completely before digging in, as the acid in the lemon needs the time to mellow out a bit. Glazed Lemon Cake Recipe-1 bundt cake: Directions: Like this: Like Loading... Lemon cake. I have this theory, or shall we call it a personality disposition, that nothing is ever really perfect.
While I would argue this pickiness is unfortunate outside the kitchen — “This date would have been even more perfect if I’d ordered the eggplant and not the chicken.” “I love my haircut except this completely unnoticeable thing going on in the back.” — within the confines of the galley walls, I think nit-picking, when done quietly, helps us become better cooks. Though a big fan of the small nuances that remind you that home cooked food is precisely that — tart crusts with the inevitable corner pieced together from a scrap, a dark spot on loaf of bread that wasn’t rotated in the oven in time — I find it nearly impossible to eat something I’ve made without making a mental note of how I’d do it differently next time.
More hot pepper. Less baking time. So Debbie Downer, what went wrong this time? Lemon Cake Adapted from ‘Barefoot Contessa Parties!’ Yield: 2 loaf cakes (or one bundt) 1. 2.