Tuesday, November 10, 2009

{TWD} All-in-one Holiday Bundt Cake

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After a LONG break... I'm finally back to baking!! Yay!

I really missed baking the weekly recipe...and now it
seems I'm going to have to bake all the recipes I missed,
but no problem because they all look super yummy :)


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It was a nice surprise to find out that we could actually
choose between the 4 recipes for this month. I chose to
bake the recipe picked by Britin of The Nitty Britty and
I really have to give 2 thumbs up. The flavors on this
cake are awesome.. they all blend well together and
create a super yummy tastin' cake! I think it goes super
well with coffee. The cranberries are a nice chewy
surprise also. I have to say, if you haven't chosen this
recipe yet.. please do, you won't be disappointed.


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Baking this cake was pretty simple, I found no hard
parts about it. The recipe calls for basic ingredients or
ingredients that aren't hard to find at all. I think it's a
perfect cake for the holidays and I'm sure family and
friends will love it!


Please check out all the other yummy Tuesdays with Dorie blogs.

Thanks for stopping by!! -Ivette


Here are some photos to show you a bit of what I did.. Enjoy! :)
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Back to baking!!!

Wow.. I feel like I've been away for AGES!! But I'm back and ready to

start baking! I can't wait to start on the yummy future recipes... I was
able to acquire new photography gear which will hopefully help me out
to make yummy pictures too :)

Happy Baking everyone!!!!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

TwD- Banana Cream Pie




This week's recipe was chosen for us by: 


I have to say that I had been waiting for this recipe for 
a VERY long time. I know I could have made it before
but... I don't know why I never did.

The recipe itself is very simple and consists of pretty
much basic ingredients. If you have not tried this...
TODAY is the day! 

I only have one question.. maybe its a dumb question..
but just like they would tell me in high school "the only
dumb question is the one NOT asked"... so I'll believe
it's true and ask.
Why is it called banana cream pie... if the cream doesn't
even taste like banana? Don't get me wrong.. I LOVED 
the pie... but I guess I was hoping for something with 
more banana flavor. Just wondering....

Back to the great pie... I was unable to get a good 
photograph of the delicious pie, simply because I was 
too lazy to make the pie crust that the recipe called for.
I know.. I know.. I could have bought it.. BUT... I also
love the way banana pudding tastes with vanilla wafers
so I decided to make a wafer crust..yay! Well... maybe
I just didn't let the poor pie rest enough... or at all!
As soon as I finished assembling it I started taking pics.
So when I decided that it was time to cut the slice to 
photograph it...my slice just kinda.. disintegrated.. or 
something.. the point is that I just couldn't manage to 
get it all in one piece.. especially with the crumbly crust.
I'm guessing that if I had refrigerated it I would have had
no problem but I was trying to get the last rays of sun
for my photographs. 
I really don't think I even need a good picture for this 
pie though... for those who made it...you know that 
no matter what it looks like, it tastes incredible...
right? right? .. Yeah.. maybe I'm just trying to make 
myself feel better.. 

Like I said... if you haven't made this pie... GO NOW!!!
You can find the recipe HERE

Please visit all the other TWD blogger's blogs for amazing
pics and different pie versions :)




                     
                       

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

TwD- Blueberry Crumb Cake



Today's recipe was chosen by: Sihan of Befuddlement

First things first... I thought this cake was really good.
I honestly liked it and would probably make it again
using just a little less nutmeg.. I wasn't too crazy 
about that particular flavor.  Other than that 
small detail.. it was fantastic... with coffee as I always
say :)

While making the cake.. I really don't know what 
exactly I was thinking.. that I made the topping 
first.. refrigerated it.. and proceeded to just 
put all of the cake ingredients in the bowl... 
that's not really what the recipe called for.
I was like OMG.. WHAT DID I DO!!!?!?!?
I just totally missed the part where you have to 
add the eggs slowly and the dry ingredients.. and
the buttermilk. Totally missed it. 
There wasn't much I could do at that point so 
I just decided to blend it all together... the batter
got SUPER thick..I thought "that's what I get for
not reading instructions properly" I just kept at it
for a bit more and prayed that it would all be fine.
Well.. my prayers were definitely heard because 
I baked it for about 55 min and LOVED what 
came out of the oven. The cake is simply delicious!
If you haven't tried it yet.. YOU HAVE TO! 


Thanks Sihan for the delicious recipe!

Please visit all the other TWD blogs out there.. 
I'm sure they baked delicious cakes :)





Monday, March 16, 2009

TWD- French Yogurt Cake with Marmalade Glaze







This Delicious recipe is brought to us by:

I have to say that I wasn't very happy about 
the lemon thing.But I decided I had to try it 
and ended up loving this cake. 

It's so simple to make.. and has SOOO much 
flavor! I really enjoyed eating it :)   The recipe
is also very easy to make and doesn't ask for any 
hard to find ingredients.. well... it does ask for 
lemon marmalade.. which many people couldn't 
find.. so I like many others, ended up using 
orange marmalade.. which goes fantastic with 
the lemon flavor. The only "tweak" on that was 
that I used 1/4c. of plain yogurt to go with it.. that 
I saw in Ree's blog and it looked and probably 
tasted better than plain marmalade. 

Liliana...thank you for choosing this 
recipe.. I loved it! 

My mother told me to let you know that this 
cake is fantastic. And being the coffee addict 
that I am... it goes great with a cup of coffee 
in the morning :)

My "new" brother in law also liked it a lot.. 
and ate about half of the little cake... jk.. 
maybe a little less.. but I'm glad he enjoyed it . 

Thanks Bere (sis) for helping me with the pics! 
LOVE YOU!

Please check out all of the TWD blogs



         And here are some pics to show you some of the steps..enjoy! 

                         

Thanks for visiting!! 





 
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