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Author: Michelle Carver

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019

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I Am In Christ

January 25, 2018January 25, 2018

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September 30, 2017February 11, 2018

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I really hope this white cake recipe passes all of my tests because it passed test #2 in spite of being over baked: sitting out on the counter overnight unprotected and still delicious. . Day old cupcakes make a better breakfast than pancakes and are divinely more honest in their indulgence don’t you think? . Break them up in a bowl, pour on milk, BOOM! Cereal. You’re welcome. . Structurally the difference from cake to pancakes would be more eggs, more butter and a few leaveners, aren’t eggs and butter Keto? . Pretty much same can go for buttercream vs syrup. Eggs are GOOD for you!!! . You know I’m always here for you. 😉 . Now have a blessed day, Michelle . #whitecake #breakfastofchampions #ketoish #🍰#letthemeatcake

I’m so excited!! I finally, FINALLY finished the final edit on my white velvet cake recipe for my cookbook!!! . This one I baked a minute or 2 too long, but it won’t be pure white when I fix that. (real butter, 1 egg yolk, pure vanilla extract) . What makes it a velvet cake? You can read all sorts of “official” definitions, and I have, problem is, they don’t all agree and I don’t know who is right. . In my case I forego all egg whites of traditional white cake in favor of adding a whole egg as well (fat + emulsifiers). I add sour cream for moisture, texture, and flavor. No shortening needed (a common white cake ingredient to replace yolks). I do use real butter as part of the reverse creaming method. . Traditional white cake is super light and fluffy, but that did not fit my needs when I was working on this recipe. . I needed something stackable for tiered cakes, handheld in cupcake form, not so soft that one bite smashes the cupcake, nor crumbly when a cupcake liner is peeled off. People might be in formal attire eating this!!! . Fluffy also can equal difficult to carve exact portions. . A basic 9” 2-tier served to the family on a Sunday? No problem. An 8-inch 3-tier you need to get 28 precision slices out of at a wedding? I had to think of that too. And it couldn’t have tunnels or excessively large air bubbles. . Also as I was originally planning to open a bakery myself, this recipe is checking all my flavor, texture, density, and moisture boxes but a 16-year old untrained employee could get it right, first try. . It bakes up flat in a pan WITHOUT bake even strips and should still dome slightly as a cupcake with no adjustments to the recipe at all. I’ll be testing that out. And other things like 9x13 sheet cake and mini cupcakes. . We shall see if it passes all of my tests. In the mean time I have some leftover egg yolks and passion fruit juice concentrate calling my name, time to work on some passionfruit curd! . If you are in the Cincinnati market and want to buy this cake at a bakery, stayed tuned, fun news is on the way! . #recipecreating #cookbookwriting #eatcakegiveback #delicious

Hawaiian Wedding Cake for the win! Swipe left to see the terrible pictures, I was in a hurry. . Like Hummingbird Cake, it’s a spice cake but with much more pineapple and no banana. . Which means the passionfruit curd was amazing as a filling!!! . Lemon would have taken away from the pineapple where passionfruit elevated it, seriously divine. Passionfruit is like a cross between lemon and pineapple if you’re unfamiliar. . I never see it used locally anywhere. In New York it is frequently paired with chocolate so says a New York bakery. I didn’t care for that pairing at all, but at the Biltmore they drizzled it on crème brûlée and it was like a revelation. At tea they used it to accompany scones, I ate it with a spoon like pudding. 😂 #classy . If you’re local I found Passionfruit Concentrate at Jungle Jims but used some I had on hand off Amazon. . Most curd fillings require 1/2 cup fruit juice so I mixed 1/4 c passionfruit juice concentrate and water. . That lowered the pH to the point the eggs didn’t want to really thicken properly but no matter, I added an entire packet of Certo gel from the canning aisle of the grocery store. You can see the consistency was perfection. I did use all egg yolks, another trick for thicker curd, but it wasn’t enough. . I will experiment with lowering the pH by adding citric acid from the canning aisle next time but this was my husband’s birthday cake, I needed a sure thing. . Walnuts and sweetened coconut flake plus cream cheese icing. . My husband thought it was wonderful, needs more coconut. #almostthere

I am so excited to be experimenting today! . It’s my husband’s birthday and I have wanted to start the recipe creation process on Hawaiian Wedding Cake forever! . Fortunately I am not completely starting from scratch, I looked at maybe 15 or 20 recipes and blog posts and my personal opinion is that this is a more tropical version of Hummingbird Cake. . I did the same thing to design my Hummingbird Cake recipe, I printed out about 15 different recipes, probably read, and this is not an exaggeration, thousands of comments on recipe posts, and formulated my own which I tweaked. . Which may or may not be similar to 20 or 30 existing recipes, it’s flour, sugar, eggs and spices, I didn’t invent cake OR cake with fruit. 😉 . How is it possible to read so many reviews? Well at night I love to relax with a cigar and do research. When you come across recipes that are decades old with the Internet itself being 25 years-ish old...you find a lot written about them. . I say that as a word of encouragement. If you bake something and you don’t quite like it, I assure you you can find ways to improve it, don’t give up. . So I created a formula that works for Hummingbird Cake (at least my version) and changed the spices, liquids and fillings for Hawaiian Wedding Cake. . The cake WILL work, the question will be do I like the combination I am putting together? . We shall see. . #hawaiianweddingcake #spicecake #fruitcake #tropicalcake #tropicalflavors #thehubs #birthdayboy

Love me some plastic storage bowls in varying sizes. 😉 . BTW if you search “Southern Living Magazine Baking With Butter” they have a nice article on the whys of their own butter preference and they’ve certainly baked a cake or two in their time! . #keepitfresh #ingredientprep #nodoghair #roomtemp

Although I have made a ton of white cake in my time it’s time to refine the process! ❤️ . I love the flavor I created, but want to refine the mixing method. . Room temp ingredients means about 68° or close to, I’ve seen YouTube videos demonstrating colder or overly warm ingredients for cake and the results were truthfully kind of surprising. . I use an instant read digital thermometer to get it right. . #whitecake #recipecreating #cookbook #writing

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